Overview of STEPS Professional Development Courses and Resource Books
STEPS Professional Development provides teachers, schools, and districts with a range of comprehensive and highly practical professional development courses based on award winning teacher resource books.
Each course is specifically crafted to help participants take on the various roles of a PRESENTER, SUPPORTER, or USER.
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Mathematics (Years K-7) |
First Steps in Mathematics
Helping teachers to identify and correct students’ misconceptions about mathematics.
Based on cutting-edge research, First Steps in Mathematics develops and expands teachers’ understanding of mathematics and how children learn mathematics. First Steps in Mathematics enables teachers to successfully diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate their students’ learning experiences in four strands - Number, Measurement, Space, and Chance and Data. Diagnostic Tasks and Diagnostic Maps within each strand help teachers to identify students’ misconceptions about mathematics. Sample lessons and learning activities provide teachers with practical and simple ideas to support students’ development.
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Revealing What Students Think – Diagnostic Tasks for Fractional Numbers
Revealing What Students Think presents thirty, easy to use Diagnostic Tasks designed to reveal what students really think and understand about fractions.
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Primary Literacy (Years K-7) |
First Steps Literacy 2nd Edition
Helping teachers address current literacy challenges in reading, writing, and speaking & listening.
First Steps Literacy 2nd Edition builds on the original First Steps by drawing upon contemporary research to help teachers address current literacy challenges. It provides teachers with comprehensive Maps of Development that help them assess and monitor student needs and also provides explicit links to purposeful teaching and learning experiences. First Steps Literacy 2nd Edition includes detailed support material that will enhance learning and help teachers build effective literacy classrooms.
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Secondary Literacy (Years 6-12) |
Tactical Teaching
Enhancing success in the learning areas by improving literacy.
Tactical Teaching is a series of three non-sequential, intensive, highly practical workshops of 2 hours duration, in Speaking and Listening, Thinking or Reading. The workshops and associated course books are intended to help learning area teachers in middle and high school settings support the literacy demands of their curriculum area. Tactical Teaching provides practical ideas to help students construct their understandings through the use of effective literacy strategies.
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VETsteps
Supporting Workplace Literacies
VETsteps highlights methods for assisting students tackle the literacy demands encountered within Units of Competency from across all industries, and within all workplace environments. It delivers skills and understandings through a series of ‘hands on’ approaches, processes and strategies. The resource is designed specifically for teachers of VET, Careers Education and Structured Workplace Learning; teachers of SAS Communication in Years 11/12 and Certificate II in work practices-as well as RTOS, TAFE and university lecturers, workplace trainers, and teachers training special needs adolescent learners for the workplace
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Stepping Out
Improving the literacy and learning of middle and high school students.
Stepping Out provides middle and high school teachers with a selection of powerful teaching ideas and tools that help secondary students build a repertoire of reading and writing strategies. Using these strategies students meet the reading and writing demands and learn content in all learning areas. The resource, which acknowledges the long-term nature of literacy improvement, provides a conduit for developing successful whole school and learning area approaches that impact positively on student learning outcomes.
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Physical Education (Years K-3) |
Fundamental Movement Skills
Supporting students’ development of proficient Fundamental Movement Skills to promote an active and healthy lifestyle.
Fundamental Movement Skills deepens teachers’ understandings of how to effectively assess, plan, and teach physical activity. Twenty-two Fundamental Movement Skills are included with details on how to break down each skill for assessment and teaching purposes. The resource also provides practical teaching activities that assist teachers to plan and deliver effective learning experiences that enhance students’ development of proficient Fundamental Movement Skills.
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Fundamental Fun
Are you clamouring for additional ideas to support your teaching of fundamental movement skills? Do you find it difficult to locate primary physical education activities that focus on specific skills? You’re not alone.
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