Online Courses for Feb 2026

Online Courses
Starting Tuesday 3rd February 2026

TSSA will be offering three online courses in February 2026, each designed to strengthen student agency, spark curiosity, and support the development of an inquiry mindset.

The courses include:

Seeing Thinking: Bringing Ideas to Life with Thinking Maps presented by Sally James
Encouraging Active Processing through Visible Thinking Routines with Camilla Antonie
Harnessing the Power of Inquiry with Traci Willis.

The first two courses focus on practical tools to enrich teaching and learning in an inquiry-based classroom, helping students take ownership of their learning and engage more deeply with ideas. The third course takes a broader look at pedagogy, equipping educators with strategies to fully embrace and embed an inquiry mindset in their practice.

Sally James

Camilla Antonie

Traci Willis

Course 1
Seeing Thinking:
Bringing Ideas to Life with Thinking Maps
Sally James
3rd, 10th & 17th Feb
16:00 - 17:30

Sally James is Deputy Head at SACS Junior School. She has many years of promoting the use of Thinking Maps® to the teachers at her school. Thinking Maps promote inquiry-based learning by providing a visual, shared language that helps students organize information, ask deeper questions, and make connections between complex ideas, thereby fostering higher-order thinking, collaboration, and a greater understanding of the world around them. They enable students to brainstorm, collect and analyze data, and reflect on their learning, making the thinking process visible and accessible to all, leading to deeper comprehension and more effective problem-solving.

You will receive a booklet containing all you need to know about the eight Thinking Maps.

Course 2
Encouraging Active Processing through Visible Thinking Routines
Camilla Antonie
4th, 11th, 18th & 25th February
16:00 - 17:30

These sessions will explore thinking routines to enhance learning and promote critical, creative and reflective thinking to foster deep thinking and engagement in the classroom. You will discover a toolkit of practical strategies to make students thinking visible and to promote metacognition.

You will learn:

What a thinking routine is
How to select and conduct various thinking routines
How to use thinking routines as diagnostic tools
Why documentation is so important

Camilla Antonie is one of TSSA's top facilitators. She is an experienced teacher who embeds the Visible Thinking Routines into her own practice. Camilla is an English teacher at St Stithian's Boys College.

Course 3
Harnessing the Power of Inquiry
Traci Willis
5th, 12th, 26th February, 5th March
16:00 - 17:30

These four sessions build on the three workshops offered in September 2025, while also providing a practical starting point for educators who are new to using inquiry as a pedagogical approach. The table below outlines the topics and details for each session.

Traci, Director of Triple-I-Consulting, is an experienced professional development facilitator with deep expertise in inquiry-based learning.

Session 1

The Architect of Wonder: Designing Learning That Sparks True Inquiry

Session 2

The Inquiry Playbook: 8 Learning Modes to Transform Your Classroom

Session 3

Bringing Inquiry to Life: A Teacher's Toolkit for Activating Learning

Session 4

The Author of the Journey: Empowering Students to Write Their Own Learning Story

COST

10% discount for TSSA Network School members

Early Bird Special until 29th November (pay by 23rd January)

COURSE 1 (3 sessions)

R1998 pp per course (normal price R2220)

COURSES 2 & 3 (4 sessions)

R2664 pp per course (normal price R2960)

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All TSSA courses are SACE accredited.

Online Courses Starting Tuesday 3rd February 2026