PROGRAM OF SPEAKERS
Keynote Address 1 - Bronwyn Hession: “The Australian Curriculum: Economics and Business”
Bronwyn is currently President of Business Educators' Australasia and a Director of Economics
and Business Educators NSW. Bronwyn was a member of the initial ACARA Advisory Group for
the development of the Australian Curriculum in Economics and Business, and a critical friend
throughout the curriculum development process. Bronwyn’s current substantive position is
Inspector, Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards, NSW.
In this presentation Bronwyn will explore some of the key challenges for curriculum writers and
teachers in implementing this curriculum to ensure that the unique and powerful contribution of
Economics and Business curriculum to general education can be realised for the benefit of all
students.
Keynote Address 2 - Michael Kidd:
Michael is Head of School of Economics and Finance at Queensland University of Technology, a
Director of the Economics Society and a member of the QETA Management Committee
This presentation will present an overview of evidence on the impact of gender in the classroom
plus some preliminary empirical results.
Workshop 1 - Creating Your Teaching Courses For iPads Using iTunes U
Majda Benzenatti, St. Hilda’s School, Southport
This workshop will demonstrate to teachers how to create a course using Safari and getting it
displayed using iTunes U app for iPads. The focus of the workshop is to go through the steps of
creating a course using iTunes U Course Manager and sharing it with students and peers. The
App enables students to easily access the course in and out of the classroom using mobile
technology. Through using iTunes U Course Manager, teachers are able to cater to all student
learning styles and needs. Also, all kind of materials can be imported to the course: Word
documents, PDFs, MP3s, MP4s etc. So instead of dragging folders, USBs or external hard drives
to class to access teaching material, well delegates will have them all in the course in the iPad!
Why not bring along your electronic files ( &your Apple ID) with you to the workshop and enjoy
the experience of taking a course with you home?
Workshop 2 - What Economics is in the 5-10 Economics and Business Curriculum?
Doug Cave
This workshop will explore what Economic content (and skills) are covered in each year of the
Australian Curriculum. Participants will examine the Curriculum Document for knowledge/topics
to be taught, and consider how this could be implemented.
Workshop 3 - Teaching the Core Unit Market and Models to Gen Y
Anthony Florido, Cannon Hill Anglican College
This presentation will look at scoping the unit/ teaching resources focusing on contemporary
media for teachers/students, assessment prep and assessment test type for this unit.
Workshop 4 - Teaching Using ICT in the Economics Classroom
This is a two-hour workshop covering Workshop Sessions B and C.
Sharon Armstrong, Nazareth College, Melbourne
Participants in this workshop will learn how to:
“Get your students to create their own App”. (android and iPhone). During this workshop
participants will learn how to make their own App for free and put it on to their phone.
Create your own WIKI. During this workshop participants will learn how to make their own WIKI.
A Wiki is a website that everyone can contribute to, this enables you to collaborate with teachers
around the world teaching the same topics as you!
Participants should come with digital resources that they wish to upload onto their WIKI.
If there is time we will look at creating our own digital cartoons.
Workshop 5 - Economics Assessment - scaffolding for success!
Often students do not know how to begin their assessment research tasks. This session will
explore the need to scaffold all assessment items by providing a clear definition of the key task
verb, such as “compare’, recommend’ or ‘analyse’ and giving the students the right thinking tool
and language so that all students will succeed. This practical and hand-on session will closely
examine at least two commonly used task verbs in Senior Economics and the matching sentence
starters that students could use for their assignment.
Workshop 6 - Action Research in Economics
Kate Stevenson and Gregory Howes, Brisbane Grammar School
This workshop will examine an Action Research project which investigated how designing
infographics can promote creativity in responding to an economic problem. (An infographic is a
visual representation of information, requiring creative problem-solving to synthesise data and
engage an audience.)
Kate has created some teaching materials and found some resources that she will be happy to
share.
Workshop 7 - Teaching Using ICT in the Economics Classroom
This is a two-hour workshop covering Workshop Sessions B and C. Workshop 7 cannot be
selected unless Workshop 4 ha s also been chosen.
Sharon Armstrong, Nazareth College, Melbourne
Participants in this workshop will learn how to:
i. Make their own WIKI (collaborative website)
ii. Create their own app using The app builder
It will be a hands-on workshop where participants will develop some learning materials for use in
the economics Classroom
Workshop 8 - Developing a Curriculum for Economics and Business
Glenys Goodingham, Siena Catholic College, Sippy Downs
Glenys will consider how to develop a curriculum for Years 8-10 using the Draft Economics and
Business Curriculum from ACARA.
Workshop 9 - Teaching Environmental Economics
Ron Hanmer, Cavendish Road State High School and Doug Cave, QETA Life Member.
This session will focus on the elective unit “Environmental Economics” and will offer participants
some ideas about research logs, scaffolding for teaching referencing etc as well as some on-line
teaching materials.