Visual Communication Victoria is committed to providing the most up-to-date professional Learning for its members. As such, joining Visual Communication Victoria provides you with numerous opportunities including learning workshops, an annual conference, and teaching and learning resources with the most benefical of these, the localised Professional Learning Networks.

Professional Learning Networks

As many of our long term members will know, our network groups have been a formal and informal part of Visual Communication Victoria at various stages over the decades. Now, with recent research showing that such groups can be really a powerful tool to help new and experienced teachers to learn, embed and consolidate new practices into their teaching.  This can further be seen by observing schools at a mirco level where, through the construction of teacher groups the school is able to action research projects in recognition of their immediate needs and long term goals.

 

'It is about moving from a community of professional learners
to a professional learning community.'

 

As a member of Visual Communication Victoria, you will have the support to start or the opportunity join a Professional Learning Network (PLN) in your local area. In principle, the  PLN meets once a Term, or as needed, to discuss issues such as the Essential Questions inherent in the study of Visual Communication at various levels of learning, the use of structures such as 'Understanding by Design' to plan curriculum, formative assessmend strategies, or using using wikis and blogs in the Visual Communication classroom.

part of our reconnect theme at the Conference this year, we formed a number of regional groups to work as Professional Learning Teams. If you missed out, feel free to email the convenor closest to you to be a part of the team. Regular meetings will share and trial ideas both in terms of curriculum and pedagogy. Each group can set their own task for enquiry, or a direction in which they wish to head. Such a structure or approach would count towards Professional Learning hours for VIT registration purposes.  Essentially, each network group decides on a direction / path they wish to pursue, sets meeting dates and a goal or target and posts these on the Visual Communication Website under their own blog.

 

 

 

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