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What’s new – November 2010

Welcome to ‘What’s new’ on the Values Education website for November 2010.

Events
1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010 – International Year 2010: Biodiversity; Rapprochement of Cultures; Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding
1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010 – Year of the Girl Guide 2010
4–6 November 2010 – International Human Rights Education Conference 2010
8–14 November 2010 – National Recycling Week
11 November 2010 – Remembrance Day
16 November 2010 – International Day for Tolerance
25 November 2010 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Values Cluster Projects

Values in Action Schools Project: Final Report
Giving Voice to the Impacts of Values Education – The Final Report of the Values in Action Schools Project, July 2010 outlines the learnings and outcomes of 15 school clusters from around Australia that were funded by the Australian Government to design, implement and evaluate quality projects in values education.

Giving Voice to the Impacts of Values Education – The Final Report of the Values in Action Schools Project and an executive summary are available for downloading.

Resources

Lesson plans
More KLA-based lesson plans for primary and secondary students with a values focus are now available from the website. Each lesson includes teaching and learning strategies with getting started, discovering and bringing it together activities to engage students. Lesson plans include: 

  • The Tin Can Rhythm Band (Early Years)
  • Why should I wash my hands? (Early Years)
  • A game of honesty and lies (Middle Childhood)
  • The value of inclusion (Middle Childhood)
  • Get there and back safely (Early Adolescence)
  • Graffiti: self expression or vandalism? (Early Adolescence)
  • The Global Peace Index – A vision for humanity (Early to Later Adolescence)
  • Business beware! Conducting a responsible business (Later Adolescence)

 

Co-curricular activities
Co-curricular activities include ideas, information and suggestions about how schools are implementing values outside the formal classroom context. Written by school-based practitioners of values education they contain practical activities for teachers to use or adapt in their communities. Activities include:

  • Building values through drama and dance with a wellbeing focus
  • The multicultural kitchen garden
  • Surf Awareness – Being safe at the beach
  • Well Being Ambassadors

 

Articles
A new article:

  • Getting down and dirty: Values in education for sustainability, Elaine Lewis, Caroline Mansfield and Catherine Baudains

 

Links
New web links:

  • The Line
  • Red Cross: After the Emergency

 

Parents
Two new resources for parents:

  • Child and Youth Health
  • Raising Children Network: Movie Reviews

 

Professional learning
A new resource for professional learning:
Two vodcasts:

  • Brenda Little from Beenleigh State High School discusses, in 'Out of Apathy', the way in which Service Learning, Circle Time and the Arts can be powerful vehicles for delivering values education.
  • In 'Philosophical Inquiry in the Classroom', Liz Fynes-Clinton talks about Philosophy in Schools and Socratic Circles as pedagogical approaches to values education.

 

Survey and data gathering tools
A new survey and data gathering tool:

  • Most Significant Change technique