AITSL Professional Learning program: EOI Now Open

Leading Curriculum Change is an online professional learning opportunity for Australian teachers.

The Professional Learning Flagship Program: Leading Curriculum Change will enhance Australian teachers knowledge, skills and confidence to plan for, support and lead curriculum change; including school level implementation of the Australian Curriculum. Classroom teachers with formal or informal curriculum change leadership responsibility in schools are the primary audience for this program. Leading Curriculum Change will provide teachers with a unique opportunity to learn with teachers from across Australia in a national professional learning community. The program will be high quality, evidence-based, interactive and online.

The first round of the program will commence in September 2011 and will involve up to 2000 Australian teachers from every phase of schooling, every sector and every state and territory.

The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) has responsibility for establishing professional learning flagship programs that support national education priority areas; are Australia wide in their scope; and are innovative in their design and delivery.

For more details about the Professional Learning Flagship Program: Leading Curriculum Change and to register an expression of interest please visit the AITSL website at http://www.aitsl.edu.au/lcc

TEACHERS OF VCE REVOLUTIONS

History Revolutions will be marked online from 2011.

This means that there will be separate question and answer books for the Revolutions exam.

There is now a NEW sample examination on the History Revs Study page reflecting this change:
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/history/revolutions/exams.html
This information first appeared in the April 2011 VCAA Bulletin.

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/correspondence/bulletins/2011/April/2011AprBull.pdf

Did you enjoy or are you good at history? poster
Click here to access a poster produced by the Australian government that identifies professions relevant to history.

Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria
Provenance is the free online journal of Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), the Victorian state archives. Provenance features peer-reviewed articles, and other contributions, that present research drawing upon records in PROV custody. This year's issue again contains a diverse range of contributions coming from the wide-ranging researcher community that accesses records at Public Record Office Victoria. The current issue can be accessed at:
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance

You can also search the current and back issues of the journal for names and places of interest at: http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance/search.asp

If you are interested in submitting an article for future issues or would like to receive an email reminder when each new issue is published online, please contact the Editor, Sebastian Gurciullo by phone on (03) 9348 5600; or email: provenance@prov.vic.gov.au

DEST Australian History Summer Schools
Podcasts of Summer School sessions are now available on the Summer School website!
> Summer School for Teachers of Australian History website

History in the Media
> Don't know much about History - The Sunday Age NEW!
> Howard Faces Judgement of History
> Can you name these people?
> Bridge the rich and poor divide
> Teachers have some insights
> Why the PM's classroom history doesn't add up
> Students' mixed feelings on history plan
> States mistrust intent of Howard's history plan
> PM to make Australian history compulsory
> States reject Howard's take on history
> PM's 'white' history under fire
> Teachers united in mockery
> PM's push 'unworkable'
> Schools complacent on history, says PM
> Don't bully us on history, states tell PM
> Don't forget about the poets, says Rudd
> Dramatic rise predicted in demand for specialist history teachers
> Howard rewrites nation's history
> History already compulsory, Pike says
> Howard rewrites history curriculum
> HTAA Open Letter to Hon Ms Julie Bishop and Hon Mr Stephen Smith, Regarding Australian History Curriculum
> Teachers 'shut out' of school history debate
> A Roadmap for History's Future
> History Lessons will be Left for Hollywood
> Students Must Value Dialogue About Our Past
> Inquiry Into Academic Standards of School Education
> History Students May Skip Gallipoli
> Every Child Should Discover the Sweep of History