APPLY NOW – A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING POVERTY

A Framework for Understanding Poverty has been embraced by schools and school networks across Australia as a way to bring about collaboration and shared understanding within their unique communities.

Teachers who participate in this training will:

  • Use concrete instructional strategies to help students from poverty
  • Understand hidden rules of economic class and effects on behaviours and mindsets
  • Develop stronger relationships with students to impact behavior
  • Reduce discipline referrals

One Day Workshop

  • Presents “ten actions to educate” for classroom teachers to practice to improve learning and help students to connect, each action gives practical strategies that classroom teachers can use. These “actions” make learning accessible and are a boon to classroom practice.
  • Advises school leaders and teachers on how to be well informed on the economic reality of the community in which they work.
  • Opens up discussions because of a deeper understanding of what is meant by resources and resourceful behaviours. This strength based approach invites educators to discuss the resources that each child brings.
  • Learn practical strategies for improving relationships with, and the learning opportunities of, students who are socially and/or financially vulnerable.

The workbook A Framework for Understanding Poverty serves as a training manual in the seminars and includes chapters on relationship building within school communities.

Train the Trainer

  • Participants are permitted to present Framework for Understanding Poverty through a limited license agreement for users employed by a Permitted Institution only.
  • “Permitted Institutions” includes only the individual school campus, or other institution/agency that is the trainer’s principal employer at the time of Certification or for which they principally act as an independent contractor at the time of Certification.

This training is open ONLY to people who have recently completed a whole day workshop