BRIDGE Educator Workshop - The Power of Balance


About this event

This program is for teachers and school leaders of schools currently participating in the BRIDGE Program.
 

This online workshop will be

held over one day.
 

Date: Tuesday 11 March 2025

Time: 1.30pm – 4.30pm AEDT 9.30am – 1.30pm WIB

Venue: Online – Zoom

(Zoom Link will be sent to participants on Friday 7 March, 2025)

Session Outline: 
How do we strike the balance between guiding students with explicit teaching and empowering them to take ownership of their learning in Science and Humanities Inquiry? How do we as educators, spark curiosity and intrinsic motivation, whilst also ensuring that our learning design is grounded in researched based practices that have been proven to maximise student learning? 

Grounded in the science of learning, this professional learning workshop explores practical strategies for fostering student agency while maintaining the clarity and support of direct instruction in guided Inquiry learning. 

This will involve:
  • High-Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS), such as scaffolding, feedback, and questioning, to provide structure while fostering curiosity and ownership

  • The intentional thinking and design of each stage of a Guided Inquiry

  • Metacognitive strategies and thinking routines that reduce cognitive load,

  • the practical integration and designing of meaningful student questions to inspire action-driven projects 

  • practical examples and case studies that explore tools to balance structure and flexibility for impactful Inquiry learning.

Educators will leave this workshop equipped with practical tools and actionable ideas to create rich, balanced Inquiry experiences that maximize engagement and learning outcomes.

Speakers

Kate Korber

The Inquiry Project Home | Theinquiryproject

Kate has worked as a Deputy Principal, Learning and Teaching Leader,  ICT and Maths leader and many years as a classroom teacher over many years. With over twenty years of experience as an educator and leader in Catholic Education (Melbourne), Kate has worked with dozens of schools as well as Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools system staff to celebrate, create and innovate learning design, particularly in the areas of Inquiry and technology. 

With a passion for curriculum design, Inquiry, technology innovation and high impact teaching strategies, Kate has worked with hundreds of teachers to help enhance their capacity about what we as educators do in the classroom for the improvement of student learning. 

Kate founded the Inquiry Project in 2023 to support educators to design learning that excites and inspires learners to achieve great things. She is passionate about using evidence based practices that support high engagement, agency and learning growth.

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