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, creating a sensory book, or building a small wicking bed or climbing structures. Bring along your own tips, techniques and questions, and any excess produce or seeds to share.

In the kitchen
This kitchen session brings the spice trade of the Middle East and North Africa to life. Make your own za’atar, explore techniques for combining spices such as harissa, sumac, paprika and cumin with fresh seasonal ingredients, and create stunning salads and dips. Bake pita, make smoky baba ghanoush, crisp and zingy fattoush, and other favourites from the region. Learn to teach these skills to your students and trade your own spice stories with like-minded educators.

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:

Standard 1.2 Educators and coordinators are focused, active and reflective in designing and delivering the program for each child.
Standard 2.1 Each child’s health is promoted.
Standard 2.2 Healthy eating and physical activity are embedded in the program for children.
Standard 3.3 The service plays an active role in caring for its environment and contributes to a sustainable future.
Standard 6.3 The service collaborates with other organisations and service providers to enhance children’s learning and wellbeing.

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

Special note for Victorian Pleasurable Food Education Packages
Are you from a school or centre who has taken up the Pleasurable Food Education Package subsidised by the Victorian Department of Education and Training? If so, a place in this session comes with the Package – at no extra cost. Please contact the Support Team for more information.

Geelong 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: April 24, 2018
Duration: 5 hours

Free!

Venue: Christian College Geelong Bellarine Campus
40 Collins St
DRYSDALE VIC 3222

Open for Registration