Professional Learning Resources

From time to time the Board offers professional learning such as the annual conference and workshops about your professional responsibilities. Information about events will be communicated to you by email. A range of upcoming professional learning opportunities are published via the following:

• The TRB professional learning calendar
• Online Learning opportunities
• The Buzz
• The Board’s Facebook page, which also shares articles and resources of interest to teachers
• Videos, PowerPoint slides and other resources from previous Board conferences and workshops are on the Event Calendar page of the website
• Sponsorship opportunities are also advertised on our Event Calendar page.

If you are employed in one (or more) of the following sectors, there may be further resources available in addition to any professional learning opportunities already offered at your school/site.

• Department for Education
               Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum training
• Catholic Education South Australia employees
• Association of Independent Schools of South Australia
• Lutheran Schools

Educators SA, formally known as CEASA, is a community of 15 000 educators who are members of one of their 59 educator professional associations. These professional associations are for teachers of specific learning cohorts, content areas/specialisations, and other aspects of the profession such as school leadership and early career educators. Browse their associations on the Educators SA website.

Are you an Early Career Educator?
Create ideas, ask questions and seek support in an encouraging collaborative community in the Early Career Educator Hub.

The following South Australian higher education providers offer postgraduate study programs as well as public lectures, workshops and conferences on a range of topics.

• Flinders University
• Tabor
• The University of Adelaide
• University of South Australia

• Gowrie South Australia
• Gowrie South Australia Professional Learning
• Illustrations of Early Childhood Teacher Practice

• TAFE SA

• Australian Education Union South Australia members
• Independent Education Union South Australia members

Please note training offered by the SA teacher unions may only be available to current members.

• Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership – see the Illustrations of Practice page on the AITSL website for videos of teachers demonstrating their practice at each of the career stages of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
• Aussie Educator – a website run by educators that offers a range of educational information including conferences and workshops of interest to teachers
• The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
• South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE)
• Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA)
• International Baccalaureate
• Education Standards Board
• Online professional learning

There are many more websites like the ones listed above – try Googling a teaching topic you are interested in learning more about.

Social media sites are virtual places where teachers can network, share resources including professional learning opportunities, and engage in discussions about teaching. Here are a few examples of Facebook pages and groups run for or by teachers:

• Teachers of Adelaide
• Relief Teachers of Adelaide
• Early Career Teachers
• Teacher Leaders
• Teach Meet Adelaide
• What a great teaching idea
• We Are Teachers
• Free Teacher/ Education PD.

• Your local library can be a great resource for accessing free professional reading. In addition to books, DVDs, and other resources many libraries have free internet and computing facilities and may offer online resources such as training modules and subscriptions to academic journals or databases.
• Check with your local council for any events available to community members in your area e.g. computer and portable device training.
• Network with other teachers to share professional learning opportunities. If you are a TRT, check if a host school/site has room for you to attend their professional learning activities  – the answer won’t always be ‘yes’ but it is worth asking.