VPA offer a range of Professional Learning Workshops throughout in the year in areas such as:
- Conflict Resolution
- Applying for Principal Class Positions
- Quality Teaching Rounds Training
- Introduction to Leadership Coaching
- Tough Conversations
- Planning your workforce
- And more!
Current workshops are listed below.
Introduction to Leadership Coaching
BOOKED OUT
Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 May 2021 (two-day event)
9.00am to 4.30pm
Lunch provided
Venue: VPA Office, Unit 2, 13-21 Vale Street, North Melbourne
This workshop is for principals, heads of departments, team leaders and anyone in school or system leadership role.
As a result of participating in this session you will:
- Be introduced to the GROWTH coaching system
- Be able to apply the GROWTH coaching model to a range of workplace conversations
- Practise giving feedback and link to coaching
- Develop next steps for taking coaching forward in your context
- Build or continue to build a coaching culture in your workplace
Download the form here and return to Sue O'Connor at
soconnor@vpa.org.au
Understanding the Student Resource Package (SRP) & Preparing a Workforce Plan (Online)
Tuesday 11 May, 2021
2.00pm to 4.00pm
Location: online
This workshop for principals and assistant principals will focus on understanding your school’s SRP and preparing an effective workforce plan for 2021.
The workshop will cover:
- Unpacking the various components of the School Resource Package
- Workforce planning and budgeting concepts
- Major issues that impact on staff planning
- Creating a sustainable workforce plan
- Hands on modelling the SRP using your school’s data
Download the form here and return to Sue O'Connor at
soconnor@vpa.org.au
Tough Conversations for School Leaders
Thursday 22 April, 2020
9.00am to 4.30pm
Morning tea and lunch provided
Venue: VPA Office, Unit 2, 13-21 Vale Street, North Melbourne
This is a one-day professional learning workshop where participants learn practical skills for holding students, parents and staff accountable for bad behaviour and breached expectations.
Lesson Framework:
- Why people overreact
- Self-control factors in adults and young people
- How ‘frustration tolerance’ develops in people
- What to tolerate: how to sort what you let go and what needs your attention
- What people will do if you challenge them
- A step-by-step process to address a problem
- How to tame tigers: effectively dealing with offensive behaviour
- A video demonstration of the concepts applied to a tough conversation between a parent and a principal
Learning outcomes:
- Improved negotiation strategies using a scripted mediation process
- Better understanding of how to be less affected by someone else’s frustration, and how to manage their emotional distress
- Strategies to progress the conversation towards a pre-planned outcome
- Practical demonstrations of principals and school leaders managing difficult parent and staff behaviour, including what to do and what to say to achieve better outcomes
- Readings and literature for follow-up research
Download the form here and return to Sue O'Connor at
soconnor@vpa.org.au
Applying for Principal Class Positions
Monday 26 April
9.00am to 3.00pm
Lunch provided
Venue: VPA Office, Unit 2, 13-21 Vale Street, North Melbourne
This workshop has been designed for aspiring Assistant Principals and Principals.
It will be delivered by members of the VASSP team:
- President Sue Bell, former Principal of Wantirna College, Monash College at Monash University and Acting Principal of Melbourne High School
- Executive Officer Vicki Forbes, former Principal of Brentwood Secondary College and former Regional Network Leader
- Field Officer Garry Schultz, former Principal of Belmont High School
Download the form here and return to Sue O'Connor at
soconnor@vpa.org.au