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Issue 52

February 2020

February has been a busy month for us with many new schools joining the ATA community. We enjoy our chats with you during orientation and learn so much about your professional development needs. 

 

Last week, we kicked off the first webinar of our 3-part trauma series, Providing Psychological First Aid for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Trauma. Participants said that the strategies presented by Alexina Baldini, were practical and could be applied to many different support situations. Alexina also used her expertise in the area of trauma, to answer questions from participants and generously provided a wealth of useful resources. If you haven't registered for the next 2 webinars in this series, make sure you save yourself a place.

 

In case you missed our announcement recently, our signature program, Effective Teacher Aide Practices for Schools (eTAPS), is now complete. This is good news for everyone, but especially for staff of member schools who will continue to have access to the program. Please read the important announcement below for details regarding limited-time access to eTAPS for individuals and training organisations. 

 

Lastly, thank you to those schools that have returned their 2020 staff lists allowing us to update your school membership accounts. If you are the administrator of your school membership, please return your updated staff list as soon as possible.

 

Warm regards

 

Stella and Mandy

Limited time remaining to view eTAPS

In 2017, we launched Effective Teacher Aide Practices for Schools (eTAPS), a ground-breaking professional development program, designed to assist teacher and teacher aide teams to work together to support student learning.

At the time, we announced that this program, valued at over $1500, would be temporarily available to all our members whilst in production, and in return we received some useful feedback that helped develop the modules.

At the start of this year we finally uploaded the last module, and now that eTAPS is complete, the trial period is about to end.

After Friday 17th April, eTAPS will be available exclusively to school members, along with the updated Facilitator's Guide which will have a detailed section on how to facilitate eTAPS professional development in schools.

If you do not belong to a member school, we hope you will take advantage of this last opportunity to view eTAPS while it is still available. 

Providing Psychological First Aid for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Trauma

Providing Psychological First Aid for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Trauma is the first webinar in a 3-part series on trauma, presented by ATA guest expert, Alexina Baldini, a psychologist with Enable Workplace Consulting. Alexina believes that the role of teachers and school support staff is crucial for children and young people exposed to trauma, or crises. 

 

In the first program, Alexina shares some key strategies on how to provide psychological first aid to children and young people exposed to trauma or crises, to alleviate distress.

eTAPS Module 4: How to Give Feedback to Teachers

eTAPS Module 4 – How to Give Feedback to Teachers, is the fourth module in the eTAPS professional learning series. You will learn how to observe and record learning and give teachers quality feedback that can be used to respond to students’ needs.

3 PART WEBINAR SERIES: How to support children and young people exposed to trauma, or crises.

ATA guest expert, Alexina Baldini is a psychologist with over 40 years’ experience. Join Alexina for the next two webinars to learn more about supporting students exposed to trauma.

 

WEBINAR 2: Providing Early Intervention to Traumatised Children in the Middle Years

10 March 2020 @ 3:30pm AEST

 

WEBINAR 3: Achieving Long Term Success Working with Students with a Trauma Background

7 April 2020 @ 3:30pm AEST

 

Participants will have an opportunity to further their understanding of children and adolescents from a trauma background, ask questions and be supported in their crucial work to provide psychological support and alleviate distress.

USE OUR NEW PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNER TO PLAN YOUR 2020 PD CALENDAR

Our brand new Professional Development Planner is a useful and time saving tool for schools. The planner, which is updated monthly, lists all ATA member resources, along with a brief description of each resource, and supporting materials. All resources are hyperlinked to save you time searching through our extensive library, and there are editable sections to insert dates and notes. You can use it electronically, or print a copy.

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If you read just one book a day to your child, they will have been read 1,825 books by their 5th birthday.

 

How many of you can relate to this comment from one of our followers?

..., that's Peppa Pig 500 times, Thomas 500 times, Dragons love Tacos 500 times and "I am not sleepy and will not go to bed" 300 times!

Job Board

Our new Job Board is an easy and cost effective way to advertise positions vacant to our national teacher aide community.

 

This service is free to member schools and can be used to advertise for permanent, contract or casual support staff.

At the same time, if you are seeking employment as a teacher aide, anywhere in Australia, you can place a position wanted advertisement on the Job Board. This service is free to ATA members.

 

Contact our friendly team if you need help to get started or want more information.