HEIAQ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EVENTS

SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
The theme for the 2008 professional development program is:
Sustainability: From consumer to citizen.

The theme will take a two-pronged approach.

• Firstly, it will look at the relationship between home economics and sustainability — that is, how practices associated with home economics can impact on sustainable futures, and the implications of that for learning and teaching.

• The second prong will consider the sustainability of good practice in the home economics classroom.


WHY?
The rationale behind the 2008 theme is probably best summed up by the following extract from the Earth Charter:
The choice is ours: form a global partnership to care for earth and one another or risk the destruction of ourselves and the diversity of life. Fundamental changes are needed in our values, institutions and ways of living. We must realise that when basic needs have been met, human development is primarily about being more, not having more. We have the knowledge and technology to provide for all and to reduce our impacts on the environment. The emergence of a global civil society is creating new opportunities to build a democratic and humane world. Our environmental, economic, political, social, and spiritual challenges are interconnected, and together we can forge inclusive solutions.
Source: The Earth Charter http://www.earthcharterusa.org/earth_charter.html

Given that everyday decisions made by individuals, families and communities impact on both local and global communities, it is timely to revisit our practices through this lens.

The important contribution that home economics can make to the wellbeing of individuals and families will not be realised unless we are able to sustain good practice in our classrooms. The new educational initiatives related to, for example, essential learnings and related assessment practices, provide an ideal opportunity to look to the future.

The 2008 program is designed to empower teachers to engage in effective home economics education and, at the same time, look at how our discipline learnings and pedagogic practice can also integrate issues of sustainability.

WHAT?
The program will have two parallel and sometimes overlapping themes:

• the ‘what to do’ in home economics classrooms to ensure that we sustain good practice in light of current educational imperatives such as the Essential Learnings and Standards, and related pedagogic and assessment practices

• how everyday practices related to food and textiles impact on local and global environmental issues, considering for example: What is sustainable practice? What are the environmental impacts? How does that relate to home economics and everyday practices? What can we do? Can we really make a difference?

 

Download professional development calendar here.





CONFERENCE
Sustainable Futures and home economics: From consumer to citizen

Saturday 23 August

Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
(note change of date and venue)


Link to Conference site



REGIONAL ONE DAY WORKSHOPS

(To be offered primarily on a Saturday)
The one-day workshops will be hands-on, full-day workshops to enable teachers to engage critically in the development of units of work and related assessment that reflects the Essential Learnings and related Standards. The workshops will build on the 2007 workshops, when delegates indicated that they wanted to explore the topic further.

Teachers will examine the Essential Learnings and look at how they can be interpreted in the home economics classroom. Opportunities will be provided to develop a unit of work and/or assessment task suited to delegates’ own programs. Whilst the workshops will be based on fundamental principles so that they can be applied to any topic, the modelling will be on sustainable futures.

The 2008 Regional Workshops Registration Brochure is now available for downloading.

For further information:
Yvonne Rutch
Telephone: 07 3353 1266
Email: rutchy@northside.org.au



REGISTRATION PROCEDURES

A professional development information brochure will be sent to each HEIA member and to each school. This will include a registration form for the workshops. A separate brochure will be sent out for the conference. Please submit the completed registration form and payment by the due date to the address indicated on the form.

Payment is required in order for a registration to be accepted. Reminder emails will be sent periodically throughout the year,

PLEASE NOTE: It is essential that registration dates are followed. Confirmations will be sent. Contact will also be made in the event that a session is cancelled or no further places are available.

IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION, YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED.
Registration fees include GST. Upon payment the registration form will become your tax invoice.
HEIA(Q)’s ABN is: 38 336 138 850

EVENTS

World Home Economics Day Celebration and Annual General Meeting
Saturday 15 March, 9.30 a.m.
Tisane Tea Room, Doggett St, FORTITUDE VALLEY


The day featured a presentation that included how our everyday fashion decisions impact on others, modelling of ethical fashions and a DVD of students taking ethical textiles action, as well as presentation of the O’Malley scholars. This was followed by a scrumptious Duchess of Bedford morning tea.PRESENTERS
PRESENTERS
MORNING TEAMORNING TEA

JULIANNA AND HELEN
JULIANNA AND HELEN

It was a most successful morning. Click here for a report on the morning.



HEIA(Q) STATE CONFERENCE
Saturday 23 August
Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre

Telephone: 07 3272 0950 (Lyn Greenfield at Echo Events Australia)
Email:
inquiry@echoevents.com.au

Link to Conference site


WORKSHOP ON WHEELS

Saturday 31 May 2008
Your opportunity to network and connect. Join us for a bus trip to the Eumundi Markets and Noosa. The bus will leave early so you can begin the day with breakfast at Eumundi and have a head start into the markets. Lunch will be at Noosa followed by more retail therapy along Hastings Street. Mark this date in your diary now.
Click here for further information and the registration brochure.

QUT STUDENTS’ EVENING
TBA


LUNCHEON: Past and present members of Committee of Management
Saturday 11 October 2008