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This full-day professional development session provides an opportunity for educators to hone their pleasurable food education delivery. You will spend the day learning new kitchen and garden skills and techniques, enhancing your teaching skills, sharing practice and building your kitchen garden networks.

Particular focus is given to taking your learning back to your students and staff, with the aim of developing a whole-school or whole-centre approach to pleasurable food education.

Note: You don’t have to be running a full kitchen garden program to benefit from this professional development.  This session caters to kitchen garden educators at all levels. If you are in the early days of getting started, this session will still be helpful – get in touch to ask us how!

Details

Following a quick refresher on the Pleasurable Food Education Philosophy, attendees will engage in hands-on learning. This includes garden and kitchen sessions, along with planning and developing teaching resources, sharing practice and networking with a community of kitchen and garden educators.
 
In the garden
Observe and experience an established learning garden layout and set-up to gain inspiration for your own school or centre. Engage in a selection of skills-based activities focused on building your kitchen garden knowledge and expertise. These include pH testing, making seed spheres, or building a small worm tower or climbing structures. Bring along your own tips, techniques and questions, and any excess produce or seeds to share.  
 
In the kitchen
Create a feast with the stunning flavours of Sri Lanka: chilli, toasted spices, coconut and curry leaves. Discover new ways to use Aussie favourites like pumpkin and beetroot, putting them in creamy curries. Transform kale and silverbeet into mallung, a tasty dry-style mix up of shredded greens and coconut. Upskill by learning to make idiyappam (string hoppers) and practise making roti. Make spicy coconut sambol and zingy corriander chutney, the perfect accompaniments to complete the meal.    

In the afternoon
Attendees will take part in a range of activities designed to enhance pleasurable food education delivery. The focus will be on sharing and learning from each other, as you discover new and effective teaching ideas, review case studies and examples, plan learning activities, look at budgeting and fundraising, and make the most of the Foundation’s resources, tools and ongoing support.
 
What you should expect to take away

  • An experience of having shared practice with like-minded peers.
  • New skills to share with your students and staff.
  • New garden activities, menus, recipes and student learning activities.
  • Renewed confidence in delivering pleasurable food education.
  • Renewed knowledge and understanding of how to use your program to underpin your curriculum and learning frameworks.
  • Established collegiate networks to learn from, share resources and enhance your kitchen garden program.
  • Strategies for strengthening the key elements of your program.
  • Improved understanding of pleasurable food education.

Additional Details

What to bring
    • Digital or hard copy photos, planning materials and case studies to share (including evidence of practice where appropriate).
    • A hat/wet weather gear/sunscreen as appropriate.
    • A camera, notebook and pen.
    • Seeds, plants and anything else to share.

      What to wear
      Comfortable casual clothing and closed shoes for kitchen and garden workshops.
       
      What to note
      If you are new to your kitchen  garden program or have just become a Kitchen Garden Classroom member, consider attending the introductory Delivering Kitchen Garden Classes professional development in your region.

      Professional development outcomes

      Early childhood educators
      This course is intended to support the implementation of the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) National Quality Standards. Completing the Growing Your Kitchen Garden Program session reinforces the following standards:
      • 1.3.2 Critical reflection on children’s learning and development, both as individuals and in groups, drives program planning and implementation.
      • 2.1.3 Healthy eating and physical activity are promoted and appropriate for each child.
      • 3.2.3 The service cares for the environment and supports children to become environmentally responsible.
      • 6.2.3 The service builds relationships and engages with its community.
      School educators
      This course is aligned to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers as outlined by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL). Completing the Growing Your Kitchen Garden Program session will contribute evidence toward 5.0 hours of professional development in maintaining the following standards:
       
      Professional knowledge:
      • 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area.
      Professional practice:
      • 3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs.
      Professional engagement:
      • 6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice.
      • 7.4 Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities.

      Any questions? Please just contact the Foundation’s Support Team on 13000 SAKGF (13000 72543) or support@kitchengardenfoundation.org.au
       
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      Brisbane Growing Your Kitchen Garden Program

      This full-day professional development session provides an opportunity for educators to hone their pleasurable food education delivery. You will spend the day learning new kitchen and garden skills and techniques, enhancing your teaching skills, sharing practice and building your kitchen garden networks.

      Date: September 11, 2019
      Duration: 5 hours

      $650.00

      Venue: Wellington Point State School
      476 Main Rd
      WELLINGTON POINT QLD 4160

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