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SASTA Professional Learning For Middle & Secondary Years
Download the 2023 Professional Learning Calendar (PDF) to see what's on offer for this year. Keep an eye on this page for event registrations when available.
Please note: If you require an invoice for school payment, please simply select Bank Transfer at the payment option during your booking. This will email you an invoice - please wait approximately 15 minutes for this to come through.
Cancellation policy:
Notice of cancellation received more than 48 hours before the event will incur a standard $50 administration processing fee, any registration fees received in addition to this amount will be refunded. For cancellation notice received less than 48 hours before the event, registration fees unfortunately cannot be refunded.
Should SASTA need to cancel or reschedule a professional learning event, then all registered delegates can opt either to receive a full refund or have their registration transferred to the rescheduled event.
Northern Territory Workshops - The SHE Task Workshop
Presenter: Jason Greenslade, Curriculum Leader Science, Westminster School
This workshop is aimed at people who want to further their skills in setting, assessment and providing feedback on the SHE task. It also will cover the writing and marking of SHE questions for tests and examinations. There will be time to examine your own student work and participate in some cross-moderation and marking of work/drafts.
Details
Date:
Time: 9.00 am - 3.00 pm
Venue: Darwin High School
Bookings close: 02/10/2023
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Full Day Price (1 day) | $145.00 |
Description
Presenter: Jason Greenslade, Curriculum Leader Science, Westminster School
This workshop is aimed at people who want to further their skills in setting, assessment and providing feedback on the SHE task. It also will cover the writing and marking of SHE questions for tests and examinations. There will be time to examine your own student work and participate in some cross-moderation and marking of work/drafts.
Morning Sessions: The SHE Task
- Performance Standards
- Introducing + structuring the task
- Providing guidance to students (drafting)
- Marking and moderation
Afternoon Session: SHE Questions in SATs/Exams
- Types of questions
- Guiding students to answer these questions
- Writing SHE questions – how to effectively use articles + how to structure them
Northern Territory Workshops - Design and Deconstruct Workshop
Presenter: Jason Greenslade, Curriculum Leader Science, Westminster School
This workshop is aimed at people who want to further their skills in setting, assessment and providing feedback on the D&D + practical report task. It also will cover the writing and marking of practical questions for tests and exams as well. There will be time to examine your own student work and participate in some cross-moderation and marking of work/drafts.
Details
Date:
Time: 9.00 am - 3.00 pm
Venue: Darwin High School
Bookings close: 02/10/2023
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Full day price (1 day) | $145.00 |
Description
Presenter: Jason Greenslade, Curriculum Leader Science, Westminster School
This workshop is aimed at people who want to further their skills in setting, assessment and providing feedback on the D&D + practical report task. It also will cover the writing and marking of practical questions for tests and exams as well. There will be time to examine your own student work and participate in some cross-moderation and marking of work/drafts.
Program:
Morning Sessions: The D&D Reporting Task
- Performance Standards
- Introducing + structuring the task (inc. ideas for D&Ds + tasks sheets + resources to help)
- Providing guidance to students (drafting)
- Marking and moderation
Afternoon Session: The task continued + experimental questions in tests/exams
- Marking and moderation (cont.)
- Types of experimental questions
- Guiding students to answer these questions
- Writing experimental questions –how to structure them
2023 SASTA Early Career Teachers Conference
Details
Date:
Time: 8.30am - 4.30pm
Venue: Nazareth Catholic College
Bookings close: 10/10/2023
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $145.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $145.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching (1 day) | $145.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching (1 day) | $145.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (1 day) | $50.00 |
| Corporate Member (SA School) (1 day) | $185.00 |
| Non-Member (1 day) | $225.00 |
| Student Non-Member (1 day) | $90.00 |
Description
Leading learning within and beyond the classroom
SASTA is committed to providing opportunities for Early Career Teachers to network and learn with and from each other. In addition, we seek to provide you with access to expert education practitioners and leaders to ensure you have every opportunity to understand and succeed in this important profession.
This one-day conference provides graduates and teachers in the first few years of their career with an opportunity to share and reflect on their professional identity, professional practice, wellbeing, and to develop connections with other early career educators.
The Conference will include specialised workshops for both Primary and Secondary Teachers
This hands-on interactive professional learning day will cater specifically for each level of schooling.
Morning Tea and lunch will be provided and there will also be a chance to network with other teachers and the presenters at the HAPPY HOUR!!!
National Professional Standards for Teachers:
Teachers will receive a certificate of attendance that details the hours of professional learning and Standard 2 Focus Areas 2.1 and 2.2, Standard 3 Focus Area 3.2, Standard 6 Focus Area 6.2 and Standard 7 Focus Area 7.4
2023 Chemistry Exam Post Mortem
This FREE event will discuss the 2023 Stage 2 Chemistry Exam and will be held via Zoom. A link to access the session will be sent closer to the date.
Details
Date:
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Bookings close: 08/11/2023
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Joint Membership (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Non-Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
Description
This FREE event will discuss the 2023 Stage 2 Chemistry Exam and will be held via Zoom. A link to access the session will be sent closer to the date.
2023 Biology Exam Post Mortem
This FREE event will discuss the 2023 Stage 2 Biology Exam and will be held via Zoom. A link to access the session will be sent closer to the date.
Details
Date:
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Bookings close: 14/11/2023
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Joint Membership (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Non-Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
Description
This FREE event will discuss the 2023 Stage 2 Biology Exam and will be held via Zoom. A link to access the session will be sent closer to the date.
2023 Physics Exam Post Mortem
This FREE event will discuss the 2023 Stage 2 Physics Exam and will be held via Zoom. A link to access the session will be sent closer to the date.
Details
Date:
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: via Zoom
Bookings close: 15/11/2023
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Joint Membership (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Non-Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
Description
This FREE event will discuss the 2023 Stage 2 Physics Exam and will be held via Zoom. A link to access the session will be sent closer to the date.
2023 Leading in Science Workshop
Calling all science leaders and budding leaders!
This session is intended for people who are current science department leaders or aspire to be one! Come along and network with other like-minded individuals whilst learning some new skills which might help you either in your current role, in the future or to further enhance the learning and teaching at your school.
Presenter: Jason Greenslade
Details
Date:
Time: 9.00 am - 3.00 pm
Venue: Education Development Centre
Bookings close: 14/11/2023
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $145.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $145.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $185.00 |
| Non-Member (1 day) | $225.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (1 day) | $50.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching (1 day) | $145.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching (1 day) | $145.00 |
Description
Calling all science leaders and budding leaders!
This session is intended for people who are current science department leaders or aspire to be one! Come along and network with other like-minded individuals whilst learning some new skills which might help you either in your current role, in the future or to further enhance the learning and teaching at your school.
Presenter: Jason Greenslade
Topics covered will include:
- Leading learning and teaching – some ways to organise work and processes in a modern science faculty
- Setting high (but achievable) standards for students
- Timetabling - putting people in the right places
- Organisation of faculty work jobs and roles (leaders within a faculty)
- Working consistently – tasks, pedagogy and process
- A framework for consistency in tasks, planning and execution whilst encouraging individuality within classroom instruction
- Running effective meetings – use of agendas and minutes effectively
- Managing staff performance in learning and teaching
- How to encourage staff ‘buy-in’ and handle change
- Lesson observations as a tool for moving to reflective practise – how to encourage and embed the use of the AITSL standards
- Including how to conduct lesson observations
- How to effectively gather student data on learning and teaching
- Review processes + processes for improvement
- Goal setting and review
- Using data for improvement – ICAS, results, SACE etc.
- How to write a targeted action plan for strategic improvement + how to review it
- Faculty based internal moderation – how to organise, carry out and review
- Pedagogy sharing and its importance + getting the most out of PL
- Laboratory technicians and laboratories – encouraging best practice and performance + potential ways to organise labs to streamline practical management
- Online Practical Ordering – options and usefulness
- New buildings? Considerations and what we learned from our building programme and new laboratories