The quality and variety of professional learning events continue for the Hills Grammar community. Our learning has included a Learning Walk in the Learning Enrichment Centre with Chrissie Blyth, Stephanie Randall and Sarah Black, ICT Quick Bites with ICT Systems Engineer, Sam Boulos, How to Support Students with Anxiety with Head of Wellbeing 7-12 Kelly Carrick and School Psychologist Sharron Steer, and Wellbeing - Through Mindfulness and Yoga with Annalisa Dobson.
Mark Yeowell
Head of Junior School, Mark Yeowell, presented “The Whole World in their Hands - Smartphones and Tweens: Towards Understanding Digital Puberty” to educational leaders, teachers and researchers at the University of New South Wales. As part of the Doctorate of Education Program, Mark is conducting research into the experiences of Year 5 to 8 students when they get their first smartphone and framing this period as ‘digital puberty’. As part of Mark’s research, he will explore where, when and how 10 to 14 year olds are using their smartphones, particularly with social media, and the impact on their wider life. Potential impact areas include the face-to-face interactions with family and peers, engagement in other leisure activities, schoolwork, reading and how this in turn may influence their education, social emotional development, wellbeing and mental health.
Marcus Claxton
Marcus Claxton, ICT Manager, facilitated a workshop at the 2019 Association of Independent Schools Conference – “Is Comfort the Enemy of Progress?”
Marcus’ workshop titled - ITIL, Prince2, TOGAF and Agile in a Nutshell – What they are, and why they
Matter for Education IT – provided information and explored the delivery of high quality ICT services to customers and how this fits into the bigger picture of supporting and managing IT in schools.
Dr Chris Furner | Director of Professional Learning
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