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Select the professional development sessions to suit you, your school or education organisation.

Various online courses or arrange your own.

In Person, face-to-face workshops.

I have begun to create Self-paced online courses on Teacha Inspire

TGoogle is a wonderful platform that allows you to do almost anything to assist in the classroom and in your daily lives.

From Google Forms, spreadsheets, collaboration platforms and teamwork using the various Google applications and features. 

Introduction to AR and VR in the classroom and learning how to use it to enhance your teaching, and how to include it into your lessons.

Phone apps and tools for different subjects, practical ideas for the use of technology and apps in the classroom, various tools with the use of technology for collaboration and teamwork, and various other online tool for lessons and assessments.

Workshops for Educational Staff and Leaders for Strategic Thinking and Planning Sessions.

The workshops included School Audit and Reporting, Pedagogical Strategies and Technology use and integration.

Google Classroom is a fantastic space to create an online classroom that allows you to do assessments, rubrics, Google forms, spreadsheets for your marks.

You can have video calls with your learners through Google Meet and it is a great remote learning tool. 

Introduction to coding, starting a coding club in your school, and computational thinking. These workshops are for teachers from Grade R to Senior Phase.

Offering various ideas and ways to change up your classroom environment to offer different learning spaces by rejuvenating and recreating existing classrooms, creating outdoor learning spaces and exciting Covid learning spaces.

Teaching with 'soul' and assisting teachers to find their spark again. Addressing change management and learning how to teach children from various backgrounds and their behaviours.
 

Providing learner centred strategies.

Critical thinking and ideas on how to teach the 4Cs/6Cs (communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking). Creative and critical thinking strategies in the classroom, asking the right questions, and encouraging thinking and doing.

These workshops are for parents, teachers and learners. About cyber-bullying, various ways to deal with cyber-bullying, and internet safety for your child when using phone apps and browsing online. We offer various ideas and ways that you could deal with different scenarios and situations.

I would love to speak at your school to engage with your staff at the start of a new term, be a keynote speaker at an event you're hosting and talk about education, impacting positive change and the impact of remote learning and educational change.