Events

Information Fluency Intensive

with June Wall and Karen Bonanno
Monday, 29th April, Wednesday, 1st May, and Friday 3rd May 2024, 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm AEST each day.
Tuesday, 30th April and Thursday, 2nd May are implementation days supported by recorded sessions for reference.

Registration is $120 for this virtual professional learning event. 

Financial members, please log in to access your discount for this event via the webinar page. 

This intensive 5-day program will step participants through using the Information Fluency Framework (IFF) integrated with syllabus/curriculum outcomes. It will then discuss and build on innovative teaching strategies that can be used with the IFF.

5-Day Overview:
Day 1: Online: Information Fluency and Mapping IFF Outcomes to the Syllabus/Curriculum
Day 2: Offline Activity: Select 1 syllabus document and 1 stage/year level and map outcomes to IFF
Day 3: Online: Strategies for teaching using the IFF
Day 4: Offline Activity: Plan a series of 3 lessons using knowledge from Day 1 & 3.
Day 5: Online: One approach to planning units for the IFF.

Participants will be able to:

  • Use a process to map IFF outcomes to the required syllabus’
  • Develop teaching strategies that integrate IFF, syllabus outcomes and lifelong learning
  • Develop a 3 lesson sequence for use in school using the IFF

June Wall is currently a Client Services Librarian and Adjunct lecturer at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst. June has been a professional development lead, senior change manager and library coordinator for the NSW Department of Education where she initiated and led the development of the Information Fluency Framework. She has been a teacher K-12, a lecturer, a professional development and education consultant, special librarian, teacher librarian, President of ASLA, President of SLANSW in the government and non-government sectors. While June is focused on developing and maintaining future focused school libraries, her passion is in digital learning and the critical role teacher librarians can play in the development of student learning.

Karen Bonanno is the Founder and National Director of Eduwebinar. She is based in North Brisbane and literally lives online as an educator. Her main area of work involves planning and hosting professional learning opportunities for educators with a specific focus on innovative teaching and learning strategies and resourcing as it applies to curriculum design and delivery. Karen has been acknowledged as a ‘learning commons visionary’, an ‘edupreneur’, and an ‘exponential entrepreneur’ by education and business colleagues for providing exceptional value. She has been a teacher, teacher librarian, head of department, acting deputy principal, regional adviser and state education officer, prior to commencing independent work in 1994. She has over 40 years of experience working in government and non-government schools, professional associations and private enterprises.

For all States and Territories:
This intensive will provide self-identified professional development addressing the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the Proficient level:
3.2 – Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
3.3 – Use teaching strategies
6.2 – Engage in professional learning and improve practice
6.4 – Apply professional learning and improve student learning

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