

Enhancing Teaching Practice Language: Imagery and focus for learning CPD Webinar
Thursday 14 August 2025
10am-12pm AEST


Booking Deadline:
Tuesday 29 July 2025
Event Date:
Thursday 14 August 2025
Event Time:
10am-12pm AEST
Location:
Available Online?
Yes
Who’s it for?
Dance teachers
Fee:
Members $90 AUD Non-members $130 AUD
Contact:

This series of practical, collaborative workshops offer teachers opportunities to share, discuss and trial strategies to refresh and enhance their teaching language, to support student engagement, learning and progression.
Over the series, consideration will be given to strategies teachers currently find helpful, together with exploration of additional suggestions regarding use of language for engaging students, fostering positive self-talk and peer interactions, expanding use of imagery and acknowledging progress. The power of language to promote a growth mindset, foster resilience, and encourage students will be discussed and variations of feedback strategies and language will be trialled. The workshops provide a supportive, collegial environment for teachers to reflect, reconsider and reinvigorate our teaching language for the benefit of our students and our teaching practice.
The four-part series of workshops includes:
- Exploring current language (recommended to be taken first)
- Mindset and motivational climates
- Imagery and focus for learning
- Questioning and positive psychology
Aim
The aims of this series of workshops are to:
- provide a supportive environment for teachers to reflect on, reconsider and reinvigorate teaching language, for the benefit of students and teaching practice,
- offer opportunities for teachers to share strategies and language teachers currently find helpful, and
- consider, discuss and trial practical strategies to refresh and enhance teaching language to support and promote student engagement, learning and progression.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of these workshops, participants will have:
- gained an increased awareness of a range of concepts affecting and influencing teaching language,
- reflected on and discussed strategies for broadening teaching vocabulary,
- expanded their ‘tools in the toolkit’ for facilitating student engagement and learning, and
- enhanced knowledge of ways to inspire and encourage students and foster and acknowledge effort and progress.
Format
Interactive webinar via Zoom
Includes a presentation, question-and-answer sessions, breakout rooms and opportunities to share your experiences with fellow teachers from around the world.
These sessions are livestream only and are not recorded.
Recommended preparation
- Participants are encouraged to attend the ‘Exploring current practice’ workshop first. Other workshops can be taken in any order.
Required resources
You will require the following resources:
- Computer/laptop/tablet with internet connection, camera and microphone
- Speakers or headphones
- A safe space for the duration of the session
Tutor
Julia Barry
Julia is a graduate of the Royal Ballet School Teachers’ Training Course Diploma in Ballet Teaching and holds the RAD Advanced Teacher’s Diploma. Julia is an Examiner for the RAD and a Practical Teaching Supervisor and Tutor for the Faculty of Education at Certificate, Diploma and Professional Dancers’ Graduate Teaching Diploma levels. Julia became an Approved Tutor for the RAD Assistant Teacher Award programme in 2023. Julia gained a Master of Creative Industries (Dance Teaching) in 2008, and in 2021 completed a second master’s degree, a Master of Philosophy, researching adolescent dancer wellness in elite pre-professional dance schools and private dance studios. She also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (Teaching and Learning). Julia is passionate about enhancing dance students’ and teachers’ learning experiences and supporting dancer wellness for students of all ages.
CPD Hours
2 hours Time-Valued CPD
How to book
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