REGIONAL WORKSHOPS 2010

HEIA 2010Please click here to access the 2010 Professional Development brochure and registration form

 

Essentially curricula—Addressing the essential curriculum demands for Queensland Home Economics teachers

This workshop will enable participants to develop rich assessment tasks based on the Essential Learnings and associated standards. Teachers will develop assessments that are in line with Queensland’s curriculum for Years 1–9 and consider the concomitant focused teaching to improve the standards of student learning. The Essentially curricula workshops will also outline the implications for Home Economics of the upcoming Australian (national) curriculum. They will be offered in all regions.

Essentially nutritious—Addressing contemporary issues related to nutrition and food

The continued state and national agenda related to food and nutrition make this area a priority for home economics. Whilst the 2007 nutrition education conference gave us the ‘how to’ messages, in 2010, HEIA(Q) will deliver an essentially nutritious update—an update of our disciplinary knowledge related to food and nutrition, along with fresh ideas for how ‘essentially nutritious’ concepts can be played out in practical foods classes. The essentially nutritious workshops will be offered in all regions.

FoodChoices curriculum resource—So what’s new?


Food Choices This is a 1.5 hour workshop, or longer if selected as a hands-on workshop.
The newly revised FoodChoices was released in January 2009. HEIA worked collaboratively with Xyris Software (Australia) P/L to revise the resource. The new features include: the analyses reflect the  release of the Nutrient Reference Values; an added feature to calculate the percentage energy from saturated fat; the ability to search for foods that are rich or low in a specified nutrient; and the Nutrition Information Panel feature, currently purchased separately, being part of the resource. Changes to the curriculum resources include revisions to the existing curriculum units, including steps to reflect the Nutrient Reference Values along with five new curriculum units. The resource is available online with students and teachers able to access the software program from their home computers. The workshop will explore the new features, including some background on the changes—for example on Nutrient Reference Values and what they mean for the home economics classroom.

CONTACTS

WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Yvonne Rutch
Telephone: 07 3353 1266
Fax: 07 3353 4628
Email: rutchy@northside.org.au

WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
Denise McManus
Tel: 07 3865 1401
Fax: 07 3965 1401
Email: dmcman@westnet.com.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


 
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