Academy Facilitator Program

The Academy Facilitator Program extends you as a professional learning leader, equipping you with the knowledge and confidence to facilitate a range of different adult audiences for diverse learning purposes.

You can complete this 2-day program as stand-alone professional learning, or you can progress to one of the following content specialisations and continue your pathway to facilitate for the Academy: 

• Literacy Pedagogy and Practice: Facilitator Program
• Mathematics Pedagogy and Practice: Facilitator Program
• Inspire: Facilitator Program.

In the content specialisations, you will develop the knowledge and skills to support a system-wide approach to professional learning, build collective capability and advance teaching practice to improve student learning outcomes across Victoria.  

To become an official Academy Certified Facilitator, you must then facilitate an Academy intake of one of the following programs: 

• Literacy Pedagogy and Practice
• Mathematics Pedagogy and Practice
• Inspire: Emerging Leaders.

The program is facilitated by experienced Academy staff including Principals in Residence.

Roles

Designed for school and system-based leaders who wish to develop their facilitation skills, including:

• principal class
• EILs, SEILs, regional based staff
• teacher leaders, learning specialists, leading teachers, experienced classroom teachers.

School sectors

This program is available to the following school sectors:

• Victorian government
• Catholic
• independent.

Some content may contain information aligned with Department of Education priorities or initiatives.

Delivery

This program consists of:

• online self-paced pre-work (15 minutes)
• 2 face-to-face workshops (6 hours each)
• a peer assessment of your facilitation skills during Workshop 2.

Workshops

• Workshop 1: Setting an adult learning climate will look at creating a positive culture, effective adult learning, and facilitator presence.
• Workshop 2: Facilitating for impact will look at storytelling and productive dialogue, providing an opportunity to bring your learning together and put it into practice.

Peer-assessment presentation

During Workshop 2, participants will co-facilitate a 15-minute introduction to the Academy Leadership Excellence Framework and receive feedback from their peers. Participants will also listen to and provide feedback to others.

Completion requirements

To successfully complete this program and receive a certificate of completion, you need to:

• attend and participate in all workshops
• complete all required pre- and post-workshop activities
• participate in the peer-assessment presentation.

Learning outcomes

You will develop the knowledge and skills to:

• inspire a positive and inclusive adult learning culture
• integrate facilitation protocols and tools into your practice
• apply adult learning principles and cognitive science principles
• mediate effective learning conversations for impact.

We significantly subsidise costs for all participants.

Financial support

Victorian school participants may be eligible for additional subsidies.

Fees and financial support