What’s new – March 2010

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

Events

1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010 – International Years 2010: Biodiversity; Rapprochement of Cultures; Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding
1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010 – Year of the Girl Guide 2010
4 April 2010 – International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
7 April 2010 – World Health Day
9 April 2010 to 10 April 2010 – National Centre Against Bullying Conference 2010
10 April 2010 to 18 April 2010 – National Youth Week 2010
22 April 2010 – International Mother Earth Day
23 April 2010 to 25 April 2010 – Global Youth Service Day
23 April 2010 – World Book and Copyright Day
29 April 2010 – World Dance Day
 

Values Cluster Projects

The Values in Action Schools Project Evaluation summit
The Evaluation Summit, the third national session for the Values in Action Schools Project (VASP), was held in Melbourne on 16 October 2009.

Values in Action Newsletter, Number 2, January 2010
The Values in Action Newsletter includes news about the Values in Action Schools Projects and updates on the national Values Education Program.
Download the newsletter to share with your colleagues or send them a link to this page.
www.valueseducation.edu.au/values/val_vasp_values_in_action_newsletter,28472.html

Catholic Schools of Clarence Cluster
St Mary's Primary School in Grafton, part of the Catholic Schools of Clarence Cluster, created a blog for use during their Values Education project.
 

Resources

New Values for Australian Schooling resources
New resources focusing on values education in intercultural and global contexts are now available for all schools. They are designed to support primary and secondary schools to foster explicit values learning, inclusiveness, and intercultural understanding. There is also a resource for school leaders to promote values-centred schooling.

The Australian Government funded four new values education resources as part of the Values for Australian Schooling resource series. This latest release from Education Services Australia includes:

• World of Values (website)
• Side by Side (big book)
• Teaching for Intercultural Understanding: Professional Learning Program (PDF)
• Values-centred Schools – A Guide (website)

World of Values, Teaching for Intercultural Understanding: Professional Learning Program and Values-centred Schools – A Guide are all available via the Values Education website. Side by Side has been distributed to primary schools. Additional teaching and learning activities for the book are also available from the Values Education website.

Side by Side was sent to primary schools with a brochure on the resources (including the access key code to World of Values) and a letter from the Minister. The brochure and letter were also sent to secondary schools.

World of Values can be accessed using the same access key code as previously used for, and published in, Building Values Across the Whole School and Supporting Student Wellbeing Through Values Education.

Additional copies of Side by Side can be purchased from Curriculum Press or by searching for ‘Side by Side’ from the main Curriculum Press page.
 

Articles
Two new articles:

• ‘The impact of racism upon the health and wellbeing of young Australians’, Fethi Mansouri, Louise Jenkins, Les Morgan, and Mona Taouk.
• ‘Give Kids a Chance: No One Deserves to Be Left Out’, Jude Lobo.

Links
New web links:

• The Shap Working Party on Education in Religions
• Philosophy Bites: podcasts of top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics ...

Parents
A new resource for parents:

• NAPCAN (National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect)

Professional learning
A new resource for professional learning:

• Understanding the Multifaith Classroom in a Secular Society: Teacher’s Resource Kit

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

• ‘Taking the Human Rights Temperature of Your School’