PLD announcement: August 2024

Enriching Social Studies through literacy and numeracy: PLD for leaders of learning in years 1-8

This two-day professional learning course will illustrate how to do more than just basics brilliantly. It will focus on meeting the requirement of one hour reading, writing and maths per day in ways that enrich learning in Social Studies, Science, Environmental Education and the Arts. 

Participants will spend time:

• exploring progression within the Do progress outcomes
• developing a sequence of learning across the phases with explicit focus on progression
• weaving together knowledge outcomes from other learning areas

Click the button below for more information and to sign up. ​

PLD announcement: January 2024

Designing learning experiences with the Social Sciences 

ASSEN is getting ready to support you in 2024! We've got an outstanding venue for a full day workshop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara on 24 January. 

The 6 hour workshop will take kaiako through a planning process that ASSEN has been developing and refining throughout 2023, focusing on designing a sequence of experiences that centre the Understand-Know-Do of the Social Sciences Learning Area, including Aotearoa's histories curriculum. We want you to know that we've listened to the feedback from all the kaiako and leaders who attended one of our PLD events in 2023 and this workshop will be a revised version of our Term 4 half and full day workshops. We will also model the process through a new theme that will be localised to our venue, Pukeahu Education Centre. 

Click the button below for more information and to sign up for the Pukeahu workshop. ​

UPDATE: Term 4 workshops revised 

Designing learning experiences with the Social Sciences 

ASSEN is sorry to announce that the majority of our half day workshops will not be going ahead in Term 4 2023. The sign up rate has been far too low for us to make them a viable option for our team. We look to continue our support of kaiako and leaders of all learning phases from years 1-10 through a series of webinars that will be recorded and made available on our membership site. If you have paid for a workshop that is no longer running, you will be fully refunded. Maria will be in contact with you.

We plan to move ahead with four half day workshops if we can get enough kaiako to sign up for these. Each 3 hour workshop will take kaiako through a planning process that ASSEN has been developing and refining throughout 2023, focusing on designing a sequence of experiences that centre the Understand-Know-Do of the Social Sciences Learning Area, including Aotearoa's histories curriculum.

These workshops are:

• 13 October in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
• 18 October in Ōtautahi Christchurch 
• 3 November in Karanema Havelock North
• 16 November in Kirikiriroa Hamilton (note the date change from Friday 17 to Thursday 16 here)

In addition, we are offering a full day workshop on 20 November for kaiako in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Click the button below for more information and to sign up for one of the workshops. All workshops are contingent on getting a large enough group of kaiako committing to attend. 

Term 4 workshops 

Designing learning experiences with the Social Sciences 

ASSEN is pleased to announce that registrations are now open for our half day workshops to support kaiako and leaders of all learning phases from years 1-10. The focus of the workshop is to design a sequence of experiences that centre the Understand-Know-Do of the Social Sciences Learning Area, including Aotearoa's histories curriculum.

We have 14 workshops planned across the country. Each 3 hour workshop will take kaiako through a planning process that ASSEN has been developing and refining throughout 2023. 

In addition, we are offering a full day workshop for kaiako in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Click the button below for more information and to sign up for one of the workshops. 

PLD course for leading the social sciences refresh

Implementing the Curriculum 

ASSEN is pleased to announce that registrations for the leading social sciences courses are now open. This year, we will host the course twice.

• The first hui will be at Tiakiwai Conference Centre, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington in the last week of term one - 3 & 4 April 2023.

• The second hui will be at the Te Pae Convention Centre, Ōtautahi Christchurch in the second week of term two - 4 & 5 May 2023. 

Opportunities to do things differently abound for us as leaders of learning in the social sciences. This is exciting and challenging. This two-day course is designed to support primary, intermediate and secondary kaiako who have responsibilities for leading the planning and implementation of the refreshed social sciences learning area, including Aotearoa New Zealand's histories curriculum.

Over the two days, participants will have multiple opportunities to engage with the social sciences learning area through He Pā Harakeke, a Kaupapa Māori informed generative process to support the implementation of the new curriculum. ASSEN and NZHTA have developed He Pā Harakeke specifically for this purpose. The course will consist of workshops to model He Pā Harakeke in practice and provide significant time for participants to apply it to their own teaching and learning contexts. There will be workshops for progress outcome level groupings, as well as sessions for cross sector engagement. We will also shine a light on weaving numeracy and literacy teaching and learning through the social sciences. Transformative change for teaching and learning, kaiako, ākonga, whānau and communities - that’s our vision!

• The course fee is $350.00.
• Subsidies are available, through the PPTA fund for secondary teachers and ASSEN for primary and intermediate teachers.
• We are limited to 120 attendees at each venue.