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Curriculum Corporation Conference is proud to announce that Stephen Heppell has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at the 15th Annual Conference, C21st Learning: Acting (Inter) Nationally.
Stephen Heppell is CEO of Heppell.net, as well as Chair in New Media Environments at Bournemouth University, UK. Stephen's biography is available from the conference website.
The 2008 Conference will be held on November 10-11 at the Sofitel Melbourne.
The conference program is now available online. For more information on keynote speakers or conference themes, please visit www.curriculum.edu.au/conference/2008/ or email conference@curriculum.edu.
Announcing the 2008 ACS Judith Leeson Award for Excellence in Career Teaching
The Award, which is proudly sponsored by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, is open to teachers in all primary and secondary government, independent, Catholic and other denominational schools in Australia delivering a career or life/work education program.
Two winners will be selected - one from the primary sector and one from the secondary sector.
The winners' prize is $5,000 for the school, while runners-up receive $3,000 for the school. The prizes also include funding for all finalists to attend the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) Conference to be held in Melbourne from the 15th to the 17th of April, 2009.
To enter:
The principal is required to nominate the teacher or career adviser whom they believe meets exhibits excellence. To access the nomination form, go to the Australian Careers Service website. Contact Cameron Picton or Emily Garretto on (03) 9207 9600 or acsaward@curriculum.edu.au if you have any questions.
Nominations open 1st October and close on the 17th November 2008, at 5pm EST.
Prize for ASISTM School Project
Talbingo Public School has won the 2008 Australian Rural Education Award, presented by SPERA (Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia). Talbingo's project, the Clean Green Energy Park, focused on developing curriculum, activities and resources through planning, designing constructing and running an energy park. In the process, teachers were provided with professional development and students were actively engaged in a range of activities centred on solar, wind and water energy. The school anticipates that the efficiency of their solar cells will enable power to be returned to the main grid during the summer school holidays.
The Talbingo Energy Park project was established with the help of a grant from the Federal Government's Australian Schools Innovation in Science, Technology and Mathematics (ASISTM) program for which Curriculum Corporation is the National Administrator.
More information is available on the ASISTM program.
New Global Perspectives
Global Perspectives: A statement on global education for Australian schools was first published in 2002. Its purpose was to clarify the goals, rationale, emphases and processes of global education and to serve as a resource - a philosophical and practical reference point - for all Australian teachers and students. The statement was the result of extensive planning and consultation, and synthesised the theory and existing practice of global education.
This new edition of Global Perspectives aims to make global education even more accessible to teachers and curriculum planners. It provides a revised framework for global education, recommendations about integrating global perspectives within and across learning areas, and advice for teachers and school leadership teams about how to implement the framework at a school level. Professional development advice is also provided for teachers, coordinators and school leaders. More...
Activate Your Students to Engage with the Environment
By nurturing an environmental awareness in our students we encourage the development of lifelong learning through relevant acquisition of skills. By actively investigating environmental issues, students:
- achieve a sense of moral ownership for and pride in the world around them
- build on their own interests and develop their own activities
- question the validity of existing information
- model appropriate methods for gathering data and information and analysing it
- actively seek reinforcement for the skills they develop
- achieve satisfaction for a job well done.
Each book in the Activate Your Students: An inquiry-based learning approach to sustainability series incorporates three units, based on different environmental issues, which have been proposed according to syllabus guidelines and the outcomes of national curriculum profiles. The series recognises that the communication skills of speaking, listening, reading, writing and spelling are fundamental to each learning domain, and should be incorporated into the daily lesson planning of each unit.
Activate Your Students is available in lower, middle and upper primary levels.
Curriculum Leadership Journal
This week Curriculum Leadership's feature article describes the 'New Learning': the changes in social significance, educational institutions, tools, and teaching practices that are currently taking place within education.
