NZ Assistant & Deputy Principals' Conference
Michael Durrant was a keynote speaker at the New Zealand Assistant & Deputy Principals' Conference in August 2007, speaking on Strengths and Resilience in Schools.
South West Sydney Principals' Conference
Michael Durrant was the keynote speaker at the South West Sydney Principals' Conference in 2007, speaking on Strengths and Resilience in Schools.
Sydney University appointment
Michael Durrant has been given an Honorary Academic appointment in the Faculty of Education, University of Sydney..
Michael training schools more widely.
Michael has conducted Staff Development training for an increasing number of schools, including Georges River College and Riverside Girls High. He has also been invited to present at South-west Sydney Principals' Conference and the National Deputy and Assistant Principals' Conference in Nelson, New Zealand.
New Zealand conference
Michael Durrant was the opening keynote speaker at a conference of educators in New Zealand.
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Michael Durrant was the opening keynote speaker at a conference of educators in New Zealand.
The 5th annual conference of the New Zealand RTLB Association (Resource Teachers - Learning and Behaviour) was held in Christchurch.
Over 500 of these specialist teacher/ consultants, along with other educators and school administrative personnel came together for four days under the theme "In the middle ... on the edge" - a phrase which so aptly describes the position in which specialist teachers and consultants often find themselves!
In his opening keynote address on Thursday morning, Michael challenged delegates to embrace the "radical simplicity" of an approach to students that focuses on strengths rather than seeking to "get to the bottom" of the learning or behaviour problem.
On Saturday morning, more than 200 delegates chose Michael's second presentation, in which he showed a videotaped interview with an unmotivated, not-very-verbal student demonstrating the use of Solution-focused questions to develop some kind of way forward with the student.