Academy Facilitator Program
The Academy Facilitator Program will extend you as a leader of professional learning, equipping you with the knowledge and confidence to facilitate a range of different adult audiences for different learning purposes.
Following completion of the Academy Facilitator Program, participants may choose to progress into:
- Literacy Pedagogy and Practice: Facilitator Program
- Mathematics Pedagogy and Practice: Facilitator Program
- Inspire: Facilitator Program
to then facilitate delivery of:
Audience
Roles
Designed for school and system-based leaders who wish to develop their facilitation skills.
This includes:
- 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.
Facilitator
The program is facilitated by experienced Academy Principals-in-Residence and Academy staff with school leadership experience.
Structure of program
This program consists of:
- online self-paced pre-work (15 minutes)
- 2 face-to-face workshops (5.5 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.
Participation in this assessment is a mandatory requirement for successful completion of the program.
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.
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.
Fees and financial support
Participants who complete the Academy Facilitator Program in isolation (i.e. not for certification purposes) may incur a program fee.
