What’s new – May 2009
Events
5 June 2009 – World Environment Day
8 June 2009 – World Oceans Day
12 June 2009 – World Day against Child Labour
14–20 June 2009 – Refugee Week
15 June 2009 – World Blood Donor Day
17 June 2009 – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
26 June 2009 – International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
See links below for workshops and seminars in your State or Territory.
States and Territories
In the Australian Capital Territory:
- Cross Sectoral Collaboration
- Curriculum Framework Alignment
- Fourteen government and non-government ACT schools have been funded to undertake Values Education and Student Wellbeing projects in 2009
- Professional Development:
- Twilight Case Studies
- ACT New Educator Support Program
- Positive Psychology in Values Education Conference 23 June 2009
- ACT Values Education Forum
In Queensland:
- Professional Development Calendar for 2009
- Values Education Workshops
- Values Education Leadership Breakfasts
- Values Education EXPO – 23 November 2009
In Victoria:
- Values Education Teacher professional learning program
Resources
The following resources, Building Values Across the Whole School and Supporting Student Wellbeing Through Values Education, form part of the Values for Australian Schooling series of resources to support schools in implementing the National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools. These resources were delivered to Principals at all Australian schools in early May 2009. Additional copies may also be downloaded by schools from this website.
Building Values Across the Whole School
Building Values Across the Whole School consists of two components: primary and secondary Teaching and Learning Units and a Professional Learning Program.
There are sixteen Teaching and Learning Units for primary years comprising eight units each for Early years and Middle childhood, and sixteen units for secondary years with eight units each for Early adolescence and Later adolescence. Utilising key principles of values education good practice, the units deliver a sequence of teaching and learning activities and model how values concepts, understandings and practices can be integrated within curriculum contexts.
The Professional Learning Program promotes teacher learning about values education and supports teachers as they impart values within all areas of the curriculum.
Supporting Student Wellbeing Through Values Education: A Resource Package
Supporting Student Wellbeing Through Values Education: A Resource Package is designed to support schools in integrating values in curricular and extracurricular contexts to develop student responsibility, social skills, resilience and wellbeing.
The separate primary and secondary books each consist of two components. Understanding Values is a set of six dilemma-based learning sequences which can be linked to key learning areas. The dilemmas require students to explicitly examine the values that underpin people’s actions and the choices they make about complex issues.
The second component, Values in Action, supports values learning through activities and projects outside the formal curriculum. The six modules provide scaffolds with which to build authentic and practical experiences for students to live and practise the values the school is fostering.
Articles
Three new articles:
- ‘Project to Test and Measure the Impact of Values Education on Student Effects and School Ambience’, Professor Terence Lovat, Professor Ron Toomey, Dr Kerry Dally, Dr Neville Clement.
- ‘Values and Other Issues in the Education of Young Australians: A study among parents with children at non-government schools’.
- ‘Promoting Interfaith and Intercultural Understanding in School Settings: Review of the Pilot Project’, Assoc. Prof. Michael Bezzina, Prof. Jude Butcher.
Links
New web link:
- Making Multicultural Australia
Professional Learning
A new professional learning resource:
- Teachers TV Australia – videos related to teaching values education in Australian schools