Programs

Teaching by Design

Many teachers are still unsure of the fundamentals of our profession: how to interpret an assessment rubric, why its important to build rapport with your students, how to write a decent assessment task, how to help students who need both support and extension, how to provide effective feedback, and how to manage disruptive behaviour. Teaching is so much more than just knowing the content: it’s about bringing it to life in the mind of a student.

Teaching by Design can tailor a program, presentation or workshop to support an individual, team or group of educators around the following topics:

The Twin Rs – relationship & rapport
Theories, model and frameworks – making sense of the education jungle
Assessment tasks, criteria & rubrics- if we can’t understand them, then how can we expect kids to?
Boys & girls – do they learn differently, and if so, then so what?
Classroom management 101
Differentiation – how can I make it work in a practical sense?
Future skills – what else do we need to teach and how do we do it?
Planning & the 5 Ps
Methods of instruction – aka teaching tools – what to use and when to use it
Teaching kids on the spectrum
Feedback – how & when to give it
Teacher performance & development aka appraisal
Collegiality – we all need a teacher buddy
Getting yourself classroom fit

Leadership by Design

School leadership is akin to a gladiatorial arena: it takes courage to enter and compete. It may therefore help to have a few tools & strategies. Schools are grappling with staffing issues and a crowded curriculum against a backdrop of social, political and economic pressures.

Not only are teachers leaving the profession, but so to are school leaders both current and future. Further to this, school leaders are experiencing burnout and depression at alarming rates. There is more we can do to create a healthier environment and a work life balance because the healthier our leaders are, the healthier our schools become.

Leadership by Design can tailor a program, presentation or workshop to support school leaders of all kinds, as well as teachers aspiring to leadership. Topics include:

So you want to be a leader?
6 types of school leaders
Seats on the bus
The purpose of a vision
Difficult conversations

Self-care – slay the best and avoid burnout

Leading staff

Leading parents

17 Lessons for School Leadership

Leadership v Management – there is a place for both

The new guy or gal

The power of community

The importance of visibility

Building your team

Resource management – things that open and shut

Leading students

The future of school leadership

15 Rules of the Leadership Game

Masculinity by Design

Statistics for some time now have indicated that there is a crisis amongst our boys and men across all segments of society. Domestic violence, suicide, aggression, high risk conduct, declining academic attainment, addiction, disengagement, anti-social behaviour, and mental health issues are all either affecting many of our boys or are perpetrated by them. Which then impacts their relationships, career, life fulfilment, friendships and wellbeing. In fact, all of us are affected.

Masculinity by Design can build and deliver programs, presentations or workshops to support teachers, schools and parents around the following topics:

Shields, masks and straitjackets

Boy and Man biology

Four types of boy

The hero’s journey

The potency of connection

Violence is not a result of testosterone

Teaching boys

Wild animals and entitled Princes

Pornography, its effects on the teen brain, and future relationships

Mothers, you are the teacher of emotional literacy

Drinking and drugs – a rite of passage……to nowhere

Sport – the good and the bad

Boys and their friends

What boys need – the 7 key tools

Is there really a crisis with our boys and men?

The Code

Our shadows – Our vision – Our purpose

Cracking the myths

The Last Treehouse

Schools as feminine environments

Do we really support the SNAG?

Medicating boyhood

Daddy, do you matter?

The Black Dog

Romeo

The adolescent crucible

The mentor