Program

HTAV Annual Conference: HISTORY NOW
Thursday 27 – Friday 28 July 2023 | Jasper Hotel, Melbourne CBD

Early bird Rate closes midnight Wednesday 12 July.
All registrations close Tuesday 18 July.

The HTAV Annual Conference, themed History Now, will feature an impressive range of workshops, lectures and practical seminars that will provide ideas for engaging classroom strategies, activities and pedagogy to help build on the learning outcomes of students.

Learn from experts from schools and organisations across Victoria in an environment filled with like-minded educators. This is an experience rich with insights that you can take back to your classrooms and share with your school community. The evaluation feedback from our conferences shows that teachers advance their subject-specific knowledge and practice by reaching beyond their own school gates.

Join us on an informative and insightful History journey and share in the unique spirit when the History community comes together.

Confirmation emails with session allocations and full event details will be issued during the week beginning Monday 24 July.

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DAY ONE – Thursday 27 July

9.00 am REGISTRATION
9.50 am WELCOME AND HOUSEKEEPING
10.20 am SESSION 1: Please choose one workshop from this session.
T1.1 Tackling Tokenism: Teaching Stolen Generations History with Confidence
Dr Aleryk Fricker, Deakin University
MIDDLE YEARS (LEVELS 9–10)
T1.2 So I’m a Teacher—Now What?!
Mitchell Pawsey, Dandenong High School, and Dafina Spahiu, McKinnon Secondary College
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
T1.3 The Impossible Task: Teaching World War II
Melanie Haley and Stephen White, Oxley Christian College
MIDDLE YEARS (LEVELS 9–10) | BYOD
T1.4 Assessment and Reporting in a Developmental Learning
Ecosystem

Ben Lawless, Aitken College, The University of Melbourne, Lawless Learning
GENERAL (LEVELS 7–10) | BYOD
T1.5 Using Historical Sources as Evidence in F–6 Classrooms
Dr Natasha Ziebell, The University of Melbourne
PRIMARY (LEVELS F–6) | BYOD
T1.6 Is It Real? Exploring Primary Sources with Sovereign Hill
Andrew Pearce, Sovereign Hill Museums Association
MIDDLE YEARS | VCE
T1.7 Building Empires: The Origins of the French and Russian
Revolutions

Professor Darius von Güttner, Australian Catholic University
VCE EMPIRES | VCE REVOLUTIONS | BYOD
11.15 am MORNING TEA
11.50 am SESSION 2: Please choose one workshop from this session.
T2.1 Object-Based Learning in the History Classroom
Bek Bates and Gurmeet Kaur, Museums Victoria
PRIMARY (LEVELS 3–6) | MIDDLE YEARS
T2.2 School Leadership in a Post-Truth World
Natalie Charles, Mentone Girls’ Grammar
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
T2.3 Makeshift Melbourne: The Interim Capital (1901–1927) That
Transformed Australia

Matthew Allanby, Xavier College
PRIMARY (LEVELS 5–6) | MIDDLE YEARS (LEVEL 9) | VCE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | BYOD
T2.4 Whose Revolution? The Peasantry in the Causes and Outcomes of the French Revolution
Emeritus Professor Peter McPhee AM, The University of Melbourne
VCE REVOLUTIONS
T2.5 Writing as a Vehicle for Assessing and Deepening Historical Knowledge in Levels F–6
Emma Watters, Westbourne Grammar School
PRIMARY
T2.6 Levels 7–10 History Collaborative Planning
Ashley Keith Pratt, Melbourne Girls Grammar, and James Sach, Goulburn Valley Grammar School
GENERAL (LEVELS 7–10) | BYOD
T2.7 Australian Democratic Reforms 1850–1983
Sarah Van de Wouw and Hermione Verbeek, Eureka Centre Ballarat
VCE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | BYOD
12.50 pm KEYNOTE SESSION
History Education for the Citizens of the Future
Dr Carolyn Holbrook, Deakin University

The discipline of History has always been concerned with educating the citizens of the future. For the first decades of Australian nationhood, this largely consisted of inculcating young Australians in the virtues of British imperial liberalism—the kind of citizenship education that sent 60,000 young men to their deaths in World War I. The relationship between the History discipline and the nation-state has fractured over the last several decades, but the importance of instilling in young Australians the skills to be active and informed citizens is no less urgent. How should we respond, as History educators, to the multitude of challenges our young people will inherit, the flood of disinformation and the rise of alarmingly sophisticated artificial intelligence, threats to democracy and declining faith in democratic systems, the crisis of housing affordability and the climate emergency? I argue that academic historians need to orient our research more explicitly to the challenges of the present, and to be more prominent advocates for the value of historical knowledge. We must also rediscover our interest in class as a category of analysis, in response to the dramatic rise in equality. As will be argued, tertiary educators can benefit by increased communication with our colleagues in the secondary system about the needs and interests of the citizens of the future.

There will be an opportunity for questions and comments at the end of the presentation.
1.45 pm NETWORKING LUNCH
2.35 pm EXHIBITOR PASSPORT PRIZE DRAWS
2.50 pm VCAA UPDATE: Victorian Curriculum Levels F–10
Michael Spurr, Acting Curriculum Manager (History), VCAA
3.15 pm SESSION 3: Please choose one workshop from this session.
T3.1 Teaching the Stolen Generations in the Primary Classroom
Dr Aleryk Fricker, Deakin University
PRIMARY (LEVELS 3–6)
T3.2 Jargon, Gunk and Guff: Finding Clarity in Verbose Times
Dylan Mead, Catherine McAuley College (Bendigo)
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP | BYOD
T3.3 Take a Breath and Take Two
Jo Leech, Carey Baptist Grammar School
VCE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | BYOD
T3.4 Resistance during the Holocaust through a Contemporary
Lens

Scott Harris, St Joseph’s College, Geelong; Katie O’Connell, St Albans Secondary College and Michelle Winderlich, St Joseph’s College, Mildura
MIDDLE YEARS (LEVELS 9–10) | VCE MODERN HISTORY | BYOD
T3.5 Wait … This Is a Writing Subject?
Emily Wilkinson, Box Hill High School
GENERAL (LEVELS 9–12)
T3.6 Developing Student Confidence in Ancient Primary Source Analysis
Valentina Bydanova, Hellenic Museum
MIDDLE YEARS | VCE ANCIENT HISTORY
T3.7 Teaching History in the Age of ChatGPT
Ian Lyell, Mentone Girls’ Grammar School
GENERAL
4.15 pm

NETWORKING DRINKS



DAY TWO – Friday 28 July

9.00 am REGISTRATION
9.50 am WELCOME AND HOUSEKEEPING
10.20 am SESSION 1: Please choose one workshop from this session.
F1.1 Ideas That Shaped Attitudes and Perspectives on Australian Identities around Federation
Emeritus Professor Richard Broome AM, La Trobe University
VCE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
F1.2 The Rise and Rise of VCE Empires
Hilary Tieri, Assumption College Kilmore
VCE EMPIRES | BYOD
F1.3 Using Artefacts to Travel through Time: Keepsakes from the First World War
Dr Adrian Threlfall, Shrine of Remembrance
MIDDLE YEARS (LEVELS 9–10) | VCE
F1.4 A History of Australia in Five Songs
Bill Lewis, Haileybury
MIDDLE YEARS | VCE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
F1.5 Eight Historical Thinking Activities
Ashley Keith Pratt, Melbourne Girls Grammar
GENERAL
F1.6 Alcibiades: Politician and Playboy
Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University
VCE ANCIENT HISTORY
F1.7 Assessing America
Natalie Shephard, Hume Anglican Grammar School
VCE REVOLUTIONS
11.15 am MORNING TEA
11.50 am SESSION 2: Please choose one workshop from this session.
F2.1 Australian Perceptions of the Asia-Pacific Region: A History
Dr Nicholas Ferns, Monash University
VCE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
F2.2 Online Search and Its Future (ChatGPT!)
Ben Lawless, Aitken College, The University of Melbourne, Lawless Learning
GENERAL (LEVELS 7-12) | BYOD
F2.3 The Russian Revolution: Connecting Causes, Individuals and
Ideas

Professor Darius von Güttner, Australian Catholic University
VCE REVOLUTIONS | BYOD
F2.4 Digital Storytelling Made Easy with Adobe
Dr Tim Kitchen, Adobe
PUBLISHER SESSION | GENERAL (LEVELS 5–12) | BYOD
F2.5 ‘A Name, a Face and a Voice’: Using Holocaust Testimony in the Classroom
Hollie Griffiths and Cassie Purer, Prahran High School
MIDDLE YEARS (LEVELS 9–10) | VCE MODERN HISTORY
F2.6 The Road to Eureka: Causes and Consequences
Andrew Pearce, Sovereign Hill Museums Association
PRIMARY (LEVELS 5–6)
F2.7 REDS! Teaching McCarthyism and the Red Scare
Stephen White, Oxley Christian College
VCE MODERN HISTORY | BYOD
12.50 pm KEYNOTE SESSION
The Power of Knowledge

Ashley Keith Pratt, Melbourne Girls Grammar, and Reid Smith, La Trobe University

Join Ashley and Reid as they explore the idea of ‘powerful knowledge’ within History and the role that a knowledge-rich curriculum has on improving student learning outcomes within our classrooms and schools. In this keynote, Ashley will explore the background to this way of viewing the purpose of school curriculum and how it relates to our History classrooms. Reid will then look at the impact that this way of constructing curriculum has on students’ ability to live in and understand their world.

There will be an opportunity for questions and comments at the end of the presentation.
1.45 pm NETWORKING LUNCH
2.35 pm EXHIBITOR PASSPORT PRIZE DRAWS
2.50pm VCAA UPDATE: VCE History
Michael Spurr, Acting Curriculum Manager (History), VCAA
3.15 pm SESSION 3: Please choose one workshop from this session.
F3.1 Reaching the Audience: Developing a Relevant and Engaging History Curriculum
Dr Casey Raeside, Assumption College Kilmore
GENERAL (LEVELS 7–12)
F3.2 Engaging e-Learning Resources for Your History Classroom
Sarah Kippen, Education Perfect
PUBLISHER SESSION | GENERAL (LEVELS 7–10) | BYOD
F3.3 Teaching and Utilising Online Research with Secondary
Students

Jessica Fulton and Tom Stammers, Tintern Grammar
GENERAL (LEVELS 7–10) | BYOD
F3.4 Women in the French Revolution: Their Words, Art, Symbolism and Activity Classrooms
Adrian Puckering, Ilim College
VCE REVOLUTIONS
F3.5 The Evaluator
Craig Townsend, Casey Grammar School
GENERAL (VCE) | BYOD
F3.6 Bringing Australian History to Life
Kym Wilton, The Islamic Museum of Australia
PUBLISHER SESSION | GENERAL (LEVELS 5–10) | BYOD
F3.7 America and Russia: A Revolutions Combination in VCE
Vince Toohey, Xavier College
VCE REVOLUTIONS | BYOD
4.15 pm

NETWORKING DRINKS

Early bird Rate closes midnight Wednesday 12 July. All registrations close Tuesday 18 July.

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