1. education
2. special education

Understanding what
Educational Services can do
for your school
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A shared goal
To build expertise across your
school or community of
schools, so that you are a selfsustaining learning community.
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Educational Services
Learning and Leadership
Learning and Engagement
• Learning and Leadership
Coordinator
• Curriculum Advisors
• Teacher Quality Advisors
• Learning and Engagement
Coordinator
• Learning and Engagement
Advisors and Officers
• Aboriginal Education
Advisors and Officers
• Aboriginal Community
Liaison
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Other support (Learning and Leadership)
Zoo
Education
MacICT
Arts
Coordination
Officers
Literacy/
Numeracy
Trainers
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Senior
Pathways
Advisor
and
Officers
Professional
Standards
and
Accreditation
Officers
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Best
Start
Officers
P-2
Initiatives
Officers
Reading
Recovery
tutors
Home to
School
Advisor
and Officer
Road
Safety
Officers
Transition
to School
Officer
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Macquarie Park
Educational Service area
Macquarie Park
area
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Gosford
office
Talavera Road
office
Nirimba
office
Dural
Gosford
Hornsby
Ku-ring-gai
Wyong
Nirimba
North Sydney
Parramatta
The Hills
Warringah
Blue Mountains
Eastern Creek
Hawkesbury
Holroyd
Penrith
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Accessing support
You can find out who your Educational Services team members
are via the portal:
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Enter your school name
and press ‘Enter’
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Learning and Leadership Coordinators
Gosford :
Lorraine Hickey
[email protected]
Nirimba:
Carolyn McGinty
[email protected]
Talavera Road:
Chris Francis
[email protected]
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Curriculum Advisors
Gosford:
Lisa Lewis
[email protected]
Julie Dupuche
[email protected]
Nirimba:
Elisabeth Robertson
[email protected]
Zdena Pethers
[email protected]
Meredith Hines (relieving)
[email protected]
Talavera Road:
Scott Paterson
[email protected]
Judy Gerber
[email protected]
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Role of Curriculum Advisors
 Liaise with schools to identify and deliver high quality
curriculum programs.
 Provide advice and support to schools on the effective
implementation of curriculum:
 NSW syllabuses for the Australian Curriculum
 Quality Teaching
 programming, assessment and reporting
 differentiation
 state programs.
 Facilitate the implementation and evaluation of
professional learning with and between schools.
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Teacher Quality Advisors
Gosford:
Lucie Vandeven
[email protected]
Deb Murray
[email protected]
Nirimba:
Rowena Whittle
[email protected]
Pam Billington
[email protected]
Talavera Road:
Anne Palmer
[email protected]
Christie Absalom
[email protected]
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Role of Teacher Quality Advisors
Work closely with principals and schools to:
• identify and deliver targeted high quality professional learning to
drive and maintain teacher quality.
• provide advice to schools on matters relating to teacher quality.
• build capacity in implementing policy and procedures for the
accreditation of teachers seeking accreditation, the maintenance of
accreditation and accreditation at the higher levels of the
professional teaching standards.
• implement the Department’s statutory obligations relating to
teacher accreditation.
• identify targeted and quality professional learning programs that
are aligned to professional teaching standards and that support
teachers achieve and maintain the different levels of accreditation.
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Our role
Support
Advise
Guide
• Provide support, advice and guidance
to principals and school-based staff.
• Assist with facilitating professional
support and advice, when requested by
principals.
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Facilitation
 Assistance in identifying schools with similar needs
with whom professional learning might be
collaboratively planned, implemented and
evaluated.
 Negotiation with state office personnel to facilitate
delivery of state-wide training in order to best meet
local need.
 Negotiating training of facilitator or leaders if trained
staff are not available.
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Facilitation
In line with Local Schools, Local
Decisions, the facilitation process
will generally be initiated by
principals.
However, Educational Services may
seek the support of principals to
assist in facilitating the delivery of
state-wide programs, including
releasing staff with expertise to lead
professional learning and to assist in
identifying possible collaborations.
For example, L3, TEN.
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Professional learning options
Model 1:
Use expertise within your school to provide professional
learning.
Model 2:
Work with other schools (via principals) to facilitate or
coordinate professional learning.
Model 3:
Engage the Educational Services team to provide advice or assist
in the facilitation of services.
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Identifying within school expertise
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Building capacity: Sharing expertise
Fluid and flexible networks
School
A
School
D
FoR
School
A
School
B
School
Y
School
C
AC
implementation
School
B
School
X
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Accessing outside school expertise and support
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ACTIVITY
1. Choose one of the three
scenarios provided on each
table – primary school or
high school.
2. Read through the models of
support.
3. Brainstorm a workable
solution to your chosen
scenario.
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Scenario 1
You are the principal of a P2 primary school.
Your school has teachers with expertise in English and
Mathematics, and implementation for the new English
and Mathematics syllabuses is progressing well.
You are unable to identify anyone in the school with
Science and Technology expertise, and need to start
planning for implementation of the new syllabus in
2015. You are particularly concerned about some
teachers’ understanding of specific scientific concepts.
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Scenario 2
You are the principal of a 7-10 high school.
You are concerned about student outcomes in
Mathematics. NAPLAN results indicate that students in
the Head Teacher’s classes are achieving well above
expected growth however, the average growth of
students in other classes is comparatively low.
The Maths Head Teacher is nearing retirement.
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Where to next?
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Skills audits
Data analysis
Future planning
Open communication
Questions?
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