Delivering Kitchen Garden Sessions - Melbourne

A hands-on day of training giving educators practical skills and experience as they learn how to establish the Kitchen Garden Program into their school or centre, and deliver engaging, successful kitchen and garden sessions. 

This professional development day is for our kitchen garden community of educators. To learn more about joining our membership, please contact the Support Team on 13000 SAKGF (13000 72543) or support@kitchengardenfoundation.org.au

Delivering Kitchen Garden Sessions is suitable for anyone new to pleasurable food education, including early childhood, primary and secondary educators. It incorporates hands-on, skills-based instruction in the kitchen and garden learning spaces, giving attendees the confidence to deliver pleasurable food education.

This PD day complements and builds on content covered in our introductory PD, Getting Started Online, but can also stand alone. It may also be relevant to educators who have some Kitchen Garden experience, but would like a refresh.

Delivering Kitchen Garden Sessions is the perfect day to consolidate learnings and your own unique kitchen garden program, as well as connect with the Kitchen Garden community.

Training objectives:

• understand what pleasurable food education is
• gain core garden skills and understand how to deliver a garden class
• develop core kitchen skills and understand how to deliver a kitchen class
• explore the educational resources available including print and digital materials
• plan and sequence learning that is appropriate to your context
• ask all the questions you need regarding delivering your kitchen garden program.

Any questions? If you want to find out if this PD is right for you, please contact the Support Team on 13000 SAKGF (13000 72543) or support@kitchengardenfoundation.org.au

Need to cancel or transfer your booking? Please see our Cancellation Policy for details.

Training outcomes 

Early childhood educators:

This course is intended to support the implementation of the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) National Quality Standards.

Completing Delivering Kitchen Garden Sessions reinforces the following elements:

• 1.1.1 Curriculum decision making contributes to each child’s learning and development outcomes in relation to their identity, connection with community, wellbeing, confidence as learners and effectiveness as communicators.
• 2.1.3 Healthy eating and physical activity are promoted and appropriate for each child.
• 3.2.3 The service cares for the environment and supports children to become environmentally responsible.
• 6.2.3 The service builds relationships and engages with its community.

Primary and secondary teachers:

The outcomes of this course are aligned to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers as outlined by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL).

Completing Delivering Kitchen Garden Sessions will contribute evidence towards 5.0 hours of accredited professional development in maintaining the following standards:

• 2.2 – Content selection and organisation
• 3.2 – Plan structure and sequence learning programs
• 3.4 – Select and use resources
• 4.2 – Manage classroom activities 
• 6.2 – Engage in professional learning and improve practice.