Catholic Education South Australia's commitment to move Year 7 to secondary settings has provided a unique opportunity for 11 secondary and primary schools to engage in professional dialogue with Professor Donna Pendergast and Dr Katherine Swain on March 26 and 27.
Professor Pendergast is Dean and Head of the School of Education at Griffith University in Queensland and Dr Katharine Swain is Lecturer of Middle Schooling at Flinders University South Australia.
These two days are part of an ongoing network that supports educators as they inquire into learning, pedagogy and wellbeing that encourage the Middle Years learner to thrive and flourish.
The aim of the network is to help participants to develop a deeper understanding of the implications that the developmental changes that occur in adolescence have for teaching in the Middle Years.
The schools who took part in the first session were:
If schools are interested in being part of the Middle Years Network please register via the Registration Centre https://registrationcentre.cesa.catholic.edu.au/event-2752348
“The Middle Years learner is growing their capability to exercise their rights and responsibilities with greater independence; managing changing relationships, and developing their ethical and spiritual beliefs as integral to their identities. The Middle Years are also the time of consolidation of skills and qualities learners will need for their immediate and long-term future, within and beyond school. This includes capabilities and perspectives that support them to understand the world and engage with it.”
(Pendergast et. al., 2017).
Pictured are Professor Donna Pendergast and Dr Katherine Swaine
