Webinar
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Learner Dispositions in Action: Resilience, Resourcefulness and Reflection
- May 18, 2026
- 4PM-5PM AEST
- 60 Minutes
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Meet our speakers
Jacinta Browning, Senior Adviser Curriculum, Assessment & Pedagogy, EA
Jacinta has 25 years of experience teaching in Catholic primary schools across the Cairns, Tasmanian, and Sale Dioceses. Holding a Masters of Clinical Teaching, she is a dedicated leader focused on empowering educators. Jacinta champions a best-practice approach to enhance collective teacher efficacy and enrich student learning.
Maddie McArthur, Deputy Principal, Long Street Primary School, Whyalla SA
Maddie McArthur is an experienced education leader with over eleven years on Barngarla Country (Whyalla, South Australia), holding a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Arts (History Major) from Flinders University. Throughout her career, she has held significant roles, including Senior Leader for Learning Improvement in Primary and part of the founding team at Whyalla Secondary College as the Aboriginal Education Senior Leader.
George Telford, Education Consultant
Geroge retired from the Victorian Department of Education in 2015 after 36 years of service, including time as a classroom teacher and sixteen years as a principal in Gippsland, during which he was twice nominated for a National Excellence in Teaching Award. He received a High Performing Principal’s Grant, allowing him to visit schools in the UK and Europe to study best teaching practices and meet with experts like Guy Claxton and Carol Dweck.
About the webinar
This session is designed for school leaders and educators across Australia seeking to align curriculum rigour with learner agency and long-term growth.
While grounded in South Australian policy, the discussion recognises that learner dispositions extend beyond three descriptors to include essential capabilities such as persistence, curiosity, metacognition, adaptability, and agency.
Join us to explore:
- What learner dispositions look like in practice
- Why they matter for sustained achievement and wellbeing
- How they can be explicitly taught, modelled and reinforced
- The role of assessment in making learning behaviours visible and actionable
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