Teaching for Science
Teaching for Science for VC2.0 & VTLM2.0
Professional learning for upper primary and lower secondary science teachers (Years 5-10). Register nowDates:
Tuesday 9th Sept, Thursday 11th Sept, Friday 12th Sept, Monday 15th Sept and Friday 14th November.
Hybrid delivery
Time: 9am – 4pm
Venue: Deakin Downtown Melbourne,Tower 2, level 12/727 Collins St, Melbourne
Cost: $200 – $700
About this Program
A unique opportunity for upper primary and lower secondary teachers to engage with innovating science teaching and learning through Victorian Curriculum Version 2.0 (VC2.0) and the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model (VTLM) 2.0. The suite of professional learning modules includes each of the science disciplines, inquiry skills, contemporary science and climate change education. Participation will be full day, face to face or online. There will be optional online check in sessions throughout the year to develop a professional learning community with a view to participate in a one day end of year conference to share resources and celebrate success.
To support early career, out-of-field and experienced secondary science teachers or upper primary teachers, to upskill their science content knowledge and pedagogical approaches in teaching and learning. The modules are developed from the highly successful Graduate Certificate of Secondary Science units and informed by Deakin’s MSET-Ed group research.
To cater for the diverse range of teachers and their expertise, stand alone modules are proposed to be offered ongoing. The program provides the opportunity for schools to negotiate a package to upskill teachers in their science learning area.
Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) Standards:
• 1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
• 3.3 Use teaching strategies
• 3.6 Evaluate and improve teaching programs
• 6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
Registration
To register for this program, click here
Cost:
- $200 per day, per participant
- $700 / 5 days, per school
Deakin University staff / students please contact pledhub@deakin.edu.au for a discount rate.
Program staff
Amanda Peters is a recent PhD graduate and science education lecturer at Deakin University. She has a keen interest in teacher professional learning. Over the past five years she has been involved in the Graduate Certificates of Secondary Science, Mathematics and Design & Technologies courses designed to upskill out-of-field teachers to be in-field teachers. Her interests are in STEM education, critical policy analysis and teacher education. Amanda is a secondary science and mathematics teacher with extensive experience in leading and teaching in secondary schools. She is also involved in VCE curriculum and assessment at the state level.
Russell Tytler is Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Science Education at Deakin University, Melbourne. He has a background lecturing and teaching physics. He has researched and written extensively on student learning and reasoning in science. He has been influential on science curricula in Australia and is involved in a range of Department of Education teacher professional learning initiatives. His interest in the role of representation as a multimodal language for reasoning in science extends to pedagogy and teacher learning. He researches and writes on student engagement with science and mathematics, socio scientific issues and reasoning, school-community partnerships, and STEM curriculum policy and practice. He is widely published and has been chief investigator on a range of ARC and other research projects, including current projects investigating interdisciplinary mathematics and science pedagogy, representing contemporary science R&D in schools to support an informed Climate Change Education, and directing an innovative program for the Victorian DET for out-of-field teachers of science and mathematics. He is a member of the Science Expert Group for PISA 2015 and 2025 and represents the OECD on an international STEM skills forum. He was deputy chair of an
influential ‘STEM Country Comparisons’ project for the Australian Academy of Learned Academies. He is a Fellow of the Academy of social Sciences in Australia.
Peta J. White is an Associate Professor in Science and Environmental Education at Deakin University. She is the Co-director of the Centre for Regenerating Futures– a transdisciplinary collective attending to Anthropocene challenges and decolonising practices while also building researcher capacity. She is the Editor-In-Chief of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education (Q1 – Web of Science). She led the OECD PISA 2025 Science Framework Environmental Science contribution ‘Agency in the Anthropocene’ and is active in climate change education research and advocacy. Peta’s research leadership has three narratives: science and biology education; sustainability, environmental, and climate change education; and collaborative/activist embodied methodologies.
Peta educated in classrooms, coordinated programs, led and supported professional associations, and prepared teachers in jurisdictions across Canada and Australia. Her PhD (2013) explored learning to live sustainably as a platform to educate future teachers. Peta continues her commitment to initial teacher education and in-service teacher education through research-informed, evidence-based professional learning programs working towards curriculum reform.
