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» The Le@rning Federation makes available digital resources from Beijing 2008 Olympics
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» Activate Your Students to Engage with the Environment
» Curriculum Leadership Journal
Curriculum Corporation Conference is proud to announce that Valerie Hannon has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at the 15th Annual Conference, C21st Learning: Acting (Inter) Nationally.
Valerie Hannon is the Director of Strategy for the Innovation Unit in the United Kingdom. She has led its work in developing its role as an innovation intermediary, designing methods and approaches to build the innovative capacity of organisations in the public services. She is responsible for the Innovation Unit's Next Practice Programme, and commissions the Innovation Unit's stream of publications in thought leadership. She is also responsible for the Innovation Unit's future strategy.
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.
The Le@rning Federation makes available digital resources from Beijing 2008 Olympics
The Olympic-themed digital content collection on TLF website has been very well received and as a result of teacher requests, TLF has made available some digital resources from the 2008 Olympics right now. These include four images- fireworks at the opening ceremony, James Tomkins carrying the flag, Libby Trickett winning her gold medal and Stephanie Rice winning her 200 m individual medley gold. All images are sourced from Getty Images, and TLF has written the education value statements and made them classroom ready by clearing all IP issues.
Visit TLF website to view these latest digital resources for your classroom and download a list of all Olympic-themed digital content.
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 features a project that will develop various modules on science teaching for pre-service early childhood teachers. The modules will be designed to help them integrate knowledge of science content with their pedagogical skills.
