Leading Curriculum Change
The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) invites you to connect with a national teaching community. The Leading Curriculum Change program will enhance teachers' knowledge, skills and confidence to effectively lead curriculum change, particularly local implementation of the Australian Curriculum. View their video on the right hand side.
Bringing the curriculum to life through innovation and excellence, it’s a unique opportunity to learn with teachers from across Australia in a national professional learning community. Teachers will experience a high quality, evidence-based, interactive online professional learning program that is designed by experts for adult learners.
Express your interest in being a part of the Professional Learning Flagship Program: Leading Curriculum Change. Places are available for teachers from government and non-government schools from all years of schooling in all states and territories.
Access AITSL’s webpage.
Intercultural understanding
We've bolstered our intercultural understanding pages with a series of new videos from leading international voices on the subject. It includes a video on the visit of leading academic Prof Yong Zhao of the University of Oregon. Visiting Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra in June 2011, he delivered an impassioned argument for a sea change in education to prepare for the 21st and 22nd centuries. In a world made ever smaller by the 'death of distance', Prof Zhao believed students should be encouraged to become 'global entrepreneurs'.
Staying up to date
Two online resources will help your knowledge of events, issues and people engaged with Asian studies. Asian Currents is an electronic newsletter that connects Australia’s academic experts on Asia with journalists, policy makers, business people, artists and other educators. The Asian Australian Studies Research Network is a network for groups who research in the area of Asian–Australian Studies. It focuses on the diasporic cultures, politics and histories of those of Asian descent in Australia.
The Asialink essay series
Australia's international relations are increasingly located in Asia rather than the rest of the world.
What are the challenges ahead? What are the opportunities for business, for greater cultural exchange, for Australia's role in the region? Leading commentators explore key issues in Australia's engagement. Stay abreast of what is happening in the region through this essay series.
Flinders University
- Graduate Certificate in Education (Studies of Asia) – six months
- Masters Education (Studies of Asia) – two years
Offered by the Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology, the courses are available on campus and in distance mode. Further information is available on the Flinders University website.
Asia Education Teachers Association
The Asia Education Teachers Association (AETA) is run by teachers interested in promoting the inclusion of an Asian perspective in teaching. It is a voluntary, non profit organisation that supports teachers in each sector K–12. View AETA website.
Video
-
Alice Pung, Writer and Lawyer
‘When we were studying Australian history there wasn't the part about the first Chinese man arriving in 1810.’
Video: 6:28
