Next Workshops 1st October 2011 : AM &PM

Thanks to all the enquiries about the next workshop. Finally secured a date and time with the Chermside Library and due to your overwhelming response I have manage to book the room for the whole day.(Saturday 1st october) This means I am able to offer two workshops (morning and afternoon) and keep the numbers at comfortable level. As always be ready for a workshop fullof fun and learning...I know I do!

Live,love and laugh,
Carmel


“Relief Insight”
Relief/ Supply Teacher Workshop for Primary School Teachers
Presented by: Carmel Kuhr (Dip of T, B.Ed)

• Want to learn more about what it really means to be a relief teacher
in today’s school environment and reflect on quality teaching practices in this role?
• How to get started? What to get organised?
• Want to be inspired by behavior management and organisational strategies
that really deliver results?

No matter whether you are an experienced classroom teacher or student teacher, this workshop will give you an insight into establishing classroom strategies that build relationships and make the classroom environment a place of productivity, fun and learning.
MORNING WORKSHOP:
Venue: Chermside Public Library, 375 Hamilton Rd, Chermside.
Time: 8:45am for a 9:00am sharp start until 1:00 pm
Professional Hours: 3 ½ hours ( QCT Certificate of Participation supplied)
Date: Saturday 1st October, 2011
Cost: $50 pp (includes comprehensive resource handbook)

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP:
Venue: Chermside Public Library, 375 Hamilton Rd, Chermside.
Time: 1:15pm for a 1:30pm sharp start until 5:00 pm
Professional Hours: 3 ½ hours ( QCT Certificate of Participation supplied)
Date: Saturday 1st October, 2011
Cost: $50 pp (includes comprehensive resource handbook)




RSVP: Essential ASAP. Please leave your name, current teaching status & contact details via email. Accurate numbers essential for booking the venue. Limited numbers due to available room size. I will confirm the workshop numbers and viability with a reply email on Wed 28th Sept.

Mobile: 0409 034 189 (Carmel)
Blog: http://relief-insight.blogspot.com
Email: carmelkuhr@internode.on.net

Addresses QCT Standards :
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10
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This invitation is open to all teaching professionals.
Please spread the word!

Substitute, Supply or Relief Teachers.... we are all in this together!

“Unless you try something beyond what you have already

mastered, you will never grow.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter what your teaching experience, if you are reading this blog you are preparing to move into a distinctly unique aspect of the education profession known as substitute ,relief or supply teaching.

Congratulations on being prepared to grow. Growth takes courage and on occasions so does substitute teaching! Every day you face a new set of children, a new grade level, a new set of individual needs, a new classroom environment and a new set of ground rules. Don’t be put off by the challenges, consider the positives. Every day is a fresh beginning with the opportunity to do it better and make a difference. One day, one kind word, one learning experience can stay with a child for a lifetime. I am always humbled when a child (sometimes years later) can remind me of a moment when I touched their life or anchored a specific learning concept firmly in their mind. These tiny moments cannot be undervalued. You must never underestimate the power of the moment and how God may choose to work through you in this important role of relief teaching.

Without the team of dedicated professionals providing this service our schools would not function as efficiently and smoothly as they do. However, you must be aware that you are responsible for your own professional growth and development. In the context of the role, you must be proactive in seeking out in-services that may suit your needs, colleges who form part of your mentoring team and resources that inspire you to journey on in your chosen career path.

If you live in the Brisbane , Australia area, I am conducting another workshop for Supply Teachers on Saturday the 31st of July. (More details in following blog) This workshop goes hand in hand with my workbook and many participants give feedback that the three hours of professional fun and learning really make the ideas come alive! The other benefit of this workshop is that you can add these three hours to your QTC professional development log requirements for 2010. Yeah! You also gain the added advantage of networking with other like minded professionals who are experiencing all the same things. It really does help to know you are not alone!

If you are not local, so to speak, don't worry...this is exactly why I was encouraged to start this blog...so you could find me and access the workbook on line. You are downloading the same book with the added advantage of being able to slide it into a display book for longevity and additional pages for ever-increasing ideas you will gain along the way! Should you choose to do this you will find it on the left at the top of the blog page. Simply click on the picture icon the open the link.

Can't wait to read your feedback. Sharing is a wonderful gift...thank you.

The book was primarily generated to give the reader “insight” into some of the key aspects of the relief teaching day. There are already many fantastic resources for lesson content. These humble ideas are meant to be the glue that can hold your teaching day together; the strategies that teachers develop over a lifetime of constant refinement and re-evaluation. As a fellow traveller, it is my hope that some of the strategies and suggestions contained in these pages (and workshop ) do exactly that…..inspire you to move forward, doing more and being more for the betterment and enrichment of the students in your care.

Live,laugh and learn every day!

Carmel Kuhr

“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of standing still.”

Chinese Proverb

Workshop "Fun and Learning" (August 2009)

"Relief Insight" Workshop

What a great group of teachers gathered together for the August workshop! The energy in the room was wonderful. It is always my privilege to present in this situation and again I was humbled by the genuine feedback. As always the needs of the group were quite varied and somewhat difficult to meet every one's expectations perfectly. Those in the group who were already out there facing classes every day in the relief capacity would have liked time to openly share strategies. I will look into another opportunity to make this happen. For now the three hour workshop is action packed with information and ideas. Some of which make the best sense when you have time to reflect and "play" with them.

Here are some of the further suggestions:

" As a pre-service teacher I am thankful for your professional scaffolding." (Sean, 3rd year Uni)

"Enlightening- empowering....more of the same please! (Dianne, Supply teacher.)

"Fantastic content. It (the workshop) came well recommended and did not disappoint. Love the access to coffee! Would love to come back for open sharing time!" (Kathryn, teacher)

If you are reading this, live in the Brisbane area and would like to attend the next workshop, simply leave a comment with your return email address as an expression of interest. No obligation. I will email you when the next workshop can go ahead. I rely on the right number of people to cover the associated costs.

On the other hand, if you are reading this and do not live in the local area, please know that what you are reading throughout my blog is not dissimilar to my book and this is why I was encouraged to place the whole book on line for your downloading convenience.

One teacher shared at the workshop that she had prepurchased "Relief Insight" handbook nearly a year earlier and she always takes it with her everyday! She showed us all the highlighting and general use the book had received. I was so pleased to see evidence that I have produced a teaching tool that is of such practical use and support.

Blessings for your teaching journey.......

Live, laugh and learn!

Carmel