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The business of teaching conference
Program overview
For full program details, and registration, visit www.vcta.asn.au/events
WEDNESDAY 9 JULY
1.30 to 4.30 pm Site visits (Melbourne CBD)
THURSDAY 10 JULY
18.15 am Registration
19.00 am Keynote address: The business of teaching — Whose business is it anyway?
Commonwealth Bank Foundation
10.00 am Morning tea
10.30 am Concurrent sessions Group A
11.30 am Concurrent sessions Group B
12.30 pm Lunch
11.30 pm Keynote address: The Future of Schooling in Australia
Professor Peter Dawkins, Secretary, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victoria
12.30 pm Afternoon tea
13.00 pm Concurrent sessions Group C
14.00 pm Conclusion
17.00 pm Conference dinner: Garden Restaurant, National Gallery of Victoria International
FRIDAY 11 JULY
19.00 am Keynote panel: How relevant in future work is business education in schools? Personal perspectives
◆ Alex Malley, President, CPA Australia
◆ Nicky Tsalamandris, Senior Financial Counsellor and Community Educator, City of Darebin
◆ David Wansbrough, Partner, Evans and Partners: an indedependent investment house
10.00 am Morning tea
10.30 am Concurrent sessions Group D
11.30 am Concurrent sessions Group E
12.30 pm Lunch
11.30 pm Keynote address: Today, difference is normal: what knowledge, skills and understandings
will young Australians need to do business in the 21st century?
Executive Director, Asia Education Foundation and the Asialink Centre of The University of Melbourne
12.30 pm Afternoon tea
13.00 pm Concurrent sessions Group F
14.15 pm Conference close
PRINCIPAL SPONSOR
The Commonwealth Bank Foundation seeks to encourage developments in
education, in particular the financial literacy skills of young Australians.
Financial literacy is an essential life skill. By supporting education programs,
the Foundation seeks to empower young Australians to approach their future
with confidence.

The business of teaching CONFERENCE
WEDNESDAY 9 JULY TO FRIDAY 11 JULY 2008
Program details and
site visit/session
preferences
PRINCIPAL SPONSOR
CONFERENCE CO-HOSTED BY
OTHER SUPPORTERS
CPA Australia u Financial Basics Foundation u Quicken Australia

Overview
Site Visits and Concurrent Sessions
The business of teaching CONFERENCE
On Day 1 – SITE VISITS occur simultaneously; select ONE site visit only. On Days 2 and 3 select ONE session from EACH
Concurrent Session Group. If attending both days you will choose a total of six concurrent sessions ie. three for each day.
Day 1 Wednesday 9 July 2008
SITE VISITS
A The Immigration Museum – Workers, Citizens,
Entrepreneurs
B Koko Black – The branding of chocolate
C The MCG and MCC – A sporting business
Day 2 Thursday 10 July 2008
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
10.30 – 11.30am Concurrent Session Group TA
TA1
TA2
TA3
TA4
TA5
My Money Know How online resource launch
Innovative strategies Australian businesses are using
to gain success at internationalisation
Using Quickbooks to teach Accounting
Flagship strategies introduced in Victoria to improve
the quality of teaching and learning
Develop economic understandings through the
Beijing Olympic games
11.30 – 12.30pm Concurrent Session Group TB
TB1
TB2
TB3
TB4
TB5
The rise and rise of India in the global economy
Critical and creative thinking in business: making it
happen
Teaching business and surviving
The panorama of Legal Studies
The 24/7 classroom: it’s here, now!
3.00 – 4.00pm Concurrent Session Group TC
TC1
TC2
TC3
TC4
TC5
Interactive digital content for teaching and learning
commerce and business education
Deeds, not words: professional learning through
lesson study
Assessing learning: principles and samples in the
Economics classroom
My Money Starter: insurance and superannuation for
secondary school students
Connecting with students: teaching the next
generation
Day 3 Friday 11 July 2008
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
10.30 – 11.30am Concurrent Session Group FA
FA1
FA2
FA3
FA4
FA5
New dimensions in consumer and financial literacy
Making thinking visible
Teaching innovation
Learning virtually using new technologies
Adopt-a Business: a case study integration model
11.30 – 12.30 pm Concurrent Session Group FB
FB1
FB2
FB3
FB4
FB5
ESSI Money: a game that really adds up
Free online data for your business
The richness of middle years pedagogy
Is this the answer to enterprise education?
Marketing a start-up business
3.00 – 4.00pm Concurrent Session Group FC
FC1 Financial literacy: a focus on personal finance
FC2 Deeper thinking for students in years 9 and 10
FC3 Navigating the charter: civil and political rights in
Victoria
FC4 Bring the real business world to students
FC5 Experiential learning in Business and Enterprise
Education: how does it sit with conventional course and
assessment requirements?
My selection
During the online registration process you will be asked
to input your site visit/session preferences. We suggest to
note them down here for ease of reference.
Day 1:
Day 2: TA TB TC
Day 3: FA FB FC
REGISTER AND CHOOSE YOUR OPTIONS ONLINE
www.vcta.asn.au/events

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Day 1 Site Visits
Wednesday 9 July 2008
The Business of Teaching Conference
commences on Wednesday with
site visits. You must register online
indicating your site visit preference.
Once registered, VCTA will contact
you to provide the site visit address
and a meeting point.
Registrants are requested to meet at
the site visit venue at 1.45pm. The
afternoon concludes at 4.30pm.
Conference registration will take
place the next day on Thursday
10 July from 8.15am at Victoria
University, Flinders Street,
Melbourne.
Select ONE site visit only as they occur simultaneously.
A: The Immigration Museum – Workers, Citizens, Entrepreneurs
The Immigration Museum has moving stories from people all over the world who have
migrated to Australia – and curriculum possibilities abound to utilise the Immigration
Museum as a vibrant resource for the business studies classroom.
Think migrant workers, working conditions, economic circumstances, financial aspects,
living standards, ‘White Australia’ policy, civics and citizenship and many migrant
entrepreneur success stories.
Take the opportunity to join in with this site visit ‘with a difference’ and explore the
potential of the Immigration Museum for your classroom.
B: Koko Black – The branding of chocolate
Koko Black is making itself a name as a chocolate icon with a reputation for
uncompromising quality and innovation. Koko Black manufactures one tonne of
premium hand-made chocolates every week and employs over 75 staff.
This site visit provides you with a first-hand examination of an entrepreneur’s journey
from business start-up (with no prior technical knowledge of chocolate) to a business
now operating from six locations with a high profile strong brand image. Key issues
highlighting factors that contribute to making a successful small business will be
addressed and yes… of course we will make time to savour the chocolate!
C: The MCG and MCC – A sporting business
Since 1853 the Melbourne Cricket Ground has been an integral part of Australian
sport. It has played host to the first ever cricket test, many VFL/AFL Grand Finals, the
1956 Olympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, music concerts, religious events,
international rugby and soccer for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the FIFA World Cup.
This tour will be hosted by the Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Cricket Club,
Stephen Gough. His role involves managing a large public asset and multi-million
dollar business. Stephen will speak on the running of this business in relation to event
and asset management, financing and human resources.
Participants will then be taken on a personally conducted guided tour of the ground and
its facilities, like the famous Long Room and player areas. This tour will include a visit
to the Melbourne Cricket Club Museum. A further highlight will be a visit to the newly
opened National Sports Museum.
This visit will also demonstrate how teachers can use the Museums and the Melbourne
Cricket Ground in the curriculum.

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Day 2 Concurrent sessions
Thursday 10 July 2008
S e l e c t O N E s e s s i o n f r o m E A C H C o n c u r r e n t S e s s i o n G r o u p . I f a t t e n d i n g b o t h d a y s y o u w i l l
choose a total of six concurrent sessions ie. three for each day.
10.30 – 11.30am
Concurrent Session Group TA
Select ONE (only) of the following Group
TA sessions. Please indicate your session
selection by providing the session code
(eg TA1) on the online registration form.
Participants will be allocated in order of
receipt.
TA1 My Money Know How online
resource launch
Wendy Mason, Program Manager,
Commonwealth Bank Foundation
By improving personal financial literacy
competencies, The Commonwealth Bank
Foundation’s My Money Know How
e-learning tool will provide teachers with
the skills to approach this subject area in
the classroom with confidence.
At this interactive session, delegates
will identify their own financial profile,
understand how this profile shapes
personal financial decisions and use the
practical My Money Know How modules
– money management, superannuation
and investment – to start a tailored money
management plan.
My Money Know How was developed by
The Commonwealth Bank Foundation
for Commonwealth Bank Australia staff
and promotes financial literacy skills
development via an Internet based
resource, including a series of practical
exercises tailored to each user’s personal
circumstances. My Money Know How is
currently used by over 3,600 staff and is
now being offered as a financial literacy
resource for teachers.
Note: This session is hands-on and
numbers are limited.
TA2 Innovative strategies Australian
businesses are using to gain success at
internationalisation
Leigh Derigo, Manager Education
Programs, Austrade
Austrade has produced many multimedia
case studies of small, medium and large
Australian export businesses. In this
session Leigh Derigo, Austrade’s Manager
Education Programs, will explore the
innovative ways Australian SMEs are
competing in the global marketplace,
including business structures, partnerships
and growth strategies. The key skills sets
and entrepreneurial marketing techniques
developed in successful businesses will
also be discussed, with examples drawn
from a range of small private and public
businesses.
TA3 Using Quickbooks to teach
Accounting
Michael Drennan, Quicken Education
Manager, Australia and New Zealand
This hands-on session demonstrates
the power of Quickbooks software in
teaching and learning Accounting. Two
dimensions will be demonstrated. One
dimension, ideal in the novice Accounting
class, is introducing students to business
transactions using the document
approach and seeing the two-fold effect
of a transaction. The other, ideal in the
advanced Accounting class, utilises the
plethora of reports and the analysis
features in Quickbooks.
Note: This session is hands-on and
numbers are limited.
TA4 Flagship strategies introduced
in Victoria to improve the quality of
teaching and learning
Pam Toose, Senior Education Officer,
Loddon Mallee Region, Department
of Education and Early Childhood
Development, Victoria
Pam has broad, but deep experience in
teaching and learning as teacher, faculty
leader, assessor, curriculum coordinator
and now has a senior regional position
directly related to building quality in
teaching and learning. Pam has made
important contributions to professional
learning over a long period, particularly
in the Business Studies area.
Optimising student learning outcomes
and teacher effectiveness in the 21st
century will be the focus of this session
where, in the context of the Loddon
Mallee Region of Victoria, Pam will
discuss strategies used in implementing
the Department of Education and Early
Childhood Blueprint initiatives. The
discussion will include classroom and
leadership perspectives and will reference
real strategies used in the region across
170 schools.
TA5 Develop economic understandings
through the Beijing Olympic games
Julie Fisher, Principal Education Officer
SOSE, Tasmanian Department of
Education
Be engaged with a new, innovative
resource for developing economic
understanding in Years 9–11 students.
Using the Beijing Olympic Games this
resource focuses on costs and benefits
to the host country, governments,
businesses and individuals. Students
explore aspects of finance, budgeting,
exchange rates, advertising, sponsorship,
commercialisation, trade and the
economic impact of hosting the games.
Topical, practical, engaging.

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Day 2 cont...
11.30 – 12.30pm
Concurrent Session Group TB
Select ONE (only) of the following Group
TB sessions. Please indicate your session
selection by providing the session code
(eg TB1) on the online registration form.
Participants will be allocated in order of
receipt.
TB1 The rise and rise of India in the
global economy
Stephen Bhogal, Head of Commerce,
Ballarat Grammar, Victoria
Stephen is an experienced India traveller
and enjoys classroom success providing
his students with an India perspective to
their learning. In this session, Stephen
will discuss the rise of India in the global
economy and how this will impact on
Australia. Stephen will draw on his
2007 participation in the Asia Education
Foundation’s India Linking Latitudes
Conference and the rich diversity and
multiple realities of the subcontinent to
explore with participants key cultural and
education issues and challenges facing
today’s Indian students and how the
forces of open internationalisation are
shaping working lives.
TB2 Critical and creative thinking in
business: making it happen
Gerard Alford, Director and Editor, ITC
Publications
This practical and hands-on workshop,
facilitated by Gerard Alford, previous
Head of Business and Assistant Dean at
Cannon Hill Anglican College, Brisbane,
and now Director, co-author and editor
if ITC Publications, will cover a range of
critical thinking tools and collaborative
strategies in the context of starting a new
business. At the end of the workshop
participants will have a dynamic and fun
lesson plan for teaching students about
starting a business as well as exploring a
range of great higher order thinking tools
that can be used every day in teaching.
TB3 Teaching business and surviving
Lloyd Gutteridge, Auckland Grammar
School, New Zealand
The boom in Business Studies in
schools over the past decade and more
has challenged the more traditional
Economics, Accounting and Legal Studies
subjects and many of those teachers who
are so often asked to ‘take’ Business
Studies/Management classes to top
up their allotments. There is no doubt
that the ‘new’ Business Studies subjects
have hooked the students giving rise
to the dichotomy of positive student
engagement and under-prepared
teachers. With declining numbers of
Economics students, Economics teachers
seem especially vulnerable.
A very experienced teacher of Economics
and Business, Lloyd offers reassurance,
good advice and support (including
resources) for teachers who might be
less comfortable with teaching ‘Business’
than other areas in which their
background is stronger.
TB4 The panorama of Legal Studies
Brian Elliott, Manager, Human Society and
Its Environment, Department of Education
and Training, NSW.
Legal Studies is about knowledge of the
law and legal processes. But it is much
more. In this session, Brian considers
the importance of developing skills to
evaluate the effectiveness of the legal
system in a wide variety of contexts and
an appreciation of contemporary social
justice issues. In doing this, he will look at
the rationale for Legal Studies in schools
and explore how it is implemented in
practice.
TB5 The 24/7 classroom: it’s here, now!
Sasha Mildenhall, Assistant Principal,
Taylor’s Lakes Secondary College, Victoria;
Cindy Twyford, Brighton Secondary
College, Victoria
The implementation of ICT pedagogy
is challenging and exciting – and more
sporadic than we might think. Once the
platitudes about what we might do with
ICT (its potential) to transform teaching
and learning (the practice) have settled,
the ‘how’ becomes critical. And this is
where it gets hard not only from the
hardware aspect but from the aspect of
up-skilling teachers so that they embed
ICT as a seamless process. This, together
with the need to audit student ICT
knowledge and skills, and getting some
alignment between teacher and student
capabilities, is challenging.
Sasha and Cindy have set some
new benchmarks for transforming
their teaching practice to reflect the
opportunities of the 24/7 classroom and
planned this session to showcase an
associated range of ICT principles and
applications. This is potential translated
into action!
3.00 – 4.00pm
Concurrent Session Group TC
Select ONE (only) of the following Group
TC sessions. Please indicate your session
selection by providing the session code
(eg TC1) on the online registration form.
Participants will be allocated in order of
receipt.
TC1 Interactive digital content for
teaching and learning commerce and
business education
Dr Olivia Clarke, Advocate, Teacher
Services, The Le@rning Federation
The Le@rning Federation develops
free online curriculum content for all
Australian and New Zealand schools
and delivers it to educational jurisdictions
through a collaborative project initiative of
all Australian and New Zealand education
ministers. An important part of this project
is the content developed for Business and
Enterprise education. Olivia works with
education jurisdictions, sectors tertiary
institutions and professional associations
and teachers about access and use of
digital content made available by the
national initiative.
This session will showcase the range of
interactive multimedia learning objects
made freely available to all schools by

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Day 2 cont...
the Le@rning Federation for Commerce
and Business Education. Participants will
hear how teachers are using the content
in creative ways to engage and enthuse
students in learning, and learn how to
access the curriculum resources at their
schools.
TC2 Deeds, not words: professional
learning through lesson study
Bronwyn Hession, President, Economics
and Business Educators, NSW; Lyn Kirby,
Head of Professional Learning, Monte
Sant’ Angelo Mercy College, Sydney, NSW
In 2007, Business Educators NSW
received an AGQTP grant to conduct a
Lesson Study Project with ten teachers
from four diverse schools in the teaching
areas of Business Studies, Commerce
and Economics. In this session, Bronwyn
and Lyn will outline the project, its
intent and what was learned through it,
and describe the professional learning
outcomes and how they have been taken
forward in 2008. This shared experience
could be important in influencing your
views, and practice, in relation to effective
professional learning.
TC3 Assessing learning: principles and
samples in the Economics classroom
Anita Forsyth, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of
Education, Monash University, Victoria
There would be no greater advocate for
Economics in schools than Anita Forsyth,
long-time pre-service educator in the field
of Economics and Business Education,
curriculum developer, examiner, course
writer and journal editor and contributor.
Her contribution to economics education
in Victoria and nationally is exemplary
and unflagging, and characterised by her
capacity to blend a futures outlook on
pedagogy with the reality of classroom
challenges observed and experienced
through her consistent and close
involvement with teachers and schools.
In this session, Anita explores and
illustrates the principles of assessment for,
as and of learning through providing rich
samples and rubrics drawn from the post
compulsory Economics classroom.
TC4 My Money Starter: insurance and
superannuation for secondary school
students
Stacey Hattensen, Project Manager,
Curriculum Corporation
‘Financially, I want to live for today’;
‘Retirement is too far away to think
about’;’ Money is just a means to buy
things’ *
In 2007, the Commonwealth
commissioned a survey of over 500
students aged from 12 to 17 on their
knowledge, skills and beliefs about
managing money. Not surprisingly, the
report found that young people had good
general understanding about good money
habits (even if they don’t employ them).
However, when it can to planning for
the future (particularly for retirement) or
protecting their money and investments,
young people cared little and understood
even less. In a climate where more young
are entering the casual workforce how
do we help individuals to make sound
and informed financial choices how do
we empower students to make the best
choices even when the payout seems a
lifetime away.
My Money Starter is a new resource
produced by Curriculum Corporation for
the Australian Insurance and Securities
Commission. The resource provides new
and engaging teaching and learning
activities supported by student fact sheets
and online interactives. In this hands-on
session, interact and engage with these
new materials and discuss ways to weave
them through your curriculum.
(* Financial Literacy: Australians
Understanding Money report,
Commonwealth of Australia, 2007.)
Note: This session is hands-on and
numbers are limited.
TC5 Connecting with students: teaching
the next generation
Kaye Higgins, Learning Coordinator,
Business Services, Bradfield Senior
College, New South Wales
In exploring strategies and approaches
to keep students engaged and meet the
needs of the next generation of learners
in the classroom, Kaye Higgins showcases
samples of successful strategies that have
been incorporated into the classroom at
Bradfield Senior College. These samples
will include the use of technology, flexible
delivery and industry training. The session
will conclude with a facilitated discussion
on the issues and needs of 15–19 year
old learners and successful teaching and
learning strategies that address their
needs.

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Day 3 Concurrent sessions
Friday 11 July 2008
S e l e c t O N E s e s s i o n f r o m E A C H C o n c u r r e n t S e s s i o n G r o u p . I f a t t e n d i n g b o t h d a y s y o u w i l l
choose a total of six concurrent sessions ie. three for each day.
10.30 – 11.30am
Concurrent Session Group FA
Select ONE (only) of the following Group
FA sessions. Please indicate your session
selection by providing the session code
(eg FA1) on the online registration form.
Participants will be allocated in order of
receipt.
FA1 New dimensions in consumer and
financial literacy
Peter Cuzner, Acting Manager, Education
and Training, Financial Literacy
Foundation
Peter Cuzner, a member of the Financial
Literacy Foundation since 2005, has
been instrumental in the development
of the National Consumer and Financial
Literacy Framework and the National
Consumer and Financial Literacy
Professional Learning Strategy, which
will be a focus of this session. Peter will
highlight support available for teachers
in their quest to integrate consumer and
financial literacy in P–10 curriculum,
including funding for each state and
territory to provide professional learning,
particularly in conjunction with a new
professional learning package which
will, by the time of this conference, have
just been released with implementation
about to begin. Peter will also refer to
the need for financial literacy education,
highlighted by recent research by the
Financial Literacy Foundation.
Participants will each receive the new
professional learning package which
will build the capacity of teachers to
integrate and effectively teach consumer
and financial literacy education across
the school.
FA2 Making thinking visible
Julie Fisher, Principal Education Officer
SOSE, Tasmanian Department of
Education
Learn how to develop a culture of thinking
in the classroom where collective as well
as individual thinking is valued, visible
and actively promoted as part of the
regular day-to-day experience of students.
The focus will be on enquiry based
learning, developing thinking skills, using
thinking strategies and engaging students
in learning for the 21st century. This is a
practical session involving participation in
thinking strategies that can be used every
day in the classroom.
FA3 Teaching innovation
Alan Wharton, Head of Commerce,
Caulfield Grammar School, Wheelers Hill,
Victoria
Teachers are often encouraged to be
innovative and creative in implementing
pedagogy that will ‘engage, enthuse
and stimulate’ student learning. But what
about teaching students to be innovative?
How is that done? Alan Wharton, highly
regarded as an innovator in teaching
Business Studies, takes the opportunity in
this session to share his own views and
experience in this area and also uses the
BEA DVD resource on teaching students
to be innovative to illustrate opportunities
for your own teaching. Participants will
walk away with ideas, teaching activities
they can use straight away in their own
lessons.
FA4 Learning virtually using new
technologies
Cheryle Walker, Virtual learning Design
Consultant, National Australia Bank
A new wave of technologies is impacting
enormously on what and how we
learn, while the evolving informal
learning landscape is intersecting with
the established grounds of knowledge
management and performance support.
In this session, participants will explore the
challenges and issues of next generation
learning, including the opportunities
of perpetual beta, the state of loose
coupling, the concept of the long tail,
the power of peer-to-peer, transparent
collaboration, and hyper-activity.
By attending this session you will walk
away understanding:
u how NAB Academy is connecting
employees to learning, regardless of
their location;
u the challenges of implementing
and embedding virtual learning
technologies;
u how to adapt existing curriculum and
face-to-face instructional materials for
virtual delivery.
Cheryle has a Masters degree in Training
and Development and is currently
preparing a PhD proposal. She is an
enthusiastic researcher and speaker on
emerging learning technologies.
FA5 Adopt-a Business: a case study
integration model
Stephen Chapman, Consultant, New South
Wales
Stephen, with 25 years experience as
a classroom teacher and coordinator,
describes his experience of Adopt-a-
Business: A Case Study Integration Model
in his senior Business Studies classes
as providing a method of immersing,
engaging and enthusing students of all
ability levels. The approach of this model
provides the opportunity for students to
collate their own case study resources
while developing a deeper understanding
of the main Business Management/
Studies concepts and appreciating the
dynamic nature of business. A 15 page
template provides the structure for this
very successful model.

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11.30 – 12.30 pm
Concurrent Session Group FB
Select ONE (only) of the following Group
FB sessions. Please indicate your session
selection by providing the session code
(eg TB1) on the online registration form.
Participants will be allocated in order of
receipt.
FB1 ESSI Money: a game that really
adds up
Katrina Birch, National Development
Manager, Financial Basics Foundation
ESSI Money is an online financial literacy
teaching resource that allows participants
to achieve an understanding of the
basic concepts surrounding financial
management, in the areas of Earning,
Saving, Spending, and Investing – ESSI!
The game is designed to aid students in
developing and improving their financial
literacy levels. Students experience some
of the day-to-day issues that most people
must cope with in their financial life.
Like any classroom learning experience,
the way that ESSI Money is used will
vary from teacher to teacher. There are
a variety of possible strategies for using
the game in the classroom and teachers
can incorporate a number of approaches
in their unit planning. The session will
be an introduction to ESSI Money and
a discussion about its application in the
classroom.
Note: This session is hands-on and
numbers are limited.
FB2 Free online data for your business
Gai Mooney, Manager Education Services,
Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics
provides large amounts of economic and
social data and finding out what you
want can be a challenge. In this handson
session Gai will point you in the right
direction for finding up-to-date and
relevant data for use in your classroom.
A great opportunity to learn how to
efficiently get the most from the amazing
resource that is the ABS.
FB3 The richness of middle years
pedagogy
Sasha Mildenhall, Assistant Principal,
Taylor’s Lakes Secondary College, Victoria
Sasha Mildenhall has wide and creative
experience of transforming middle years
pedagogy to develop engaged, thinking
students who increasingly take more
responsibility for their learning and
achieve more in their learning. She will
reference some successful experiences
using DeBono’s Hats, Fertile Questions
and Habits of Minds, among a suite
of strategies that have transformed
her practice and thinking in relation to
building success for middle years students.
Sasha also poses the question ‘Is there a
place for middle years strategies in later
years learning? Then she answers it with
reference to work she has undertaken.
FB4 Is this the answer to enterprise
education?
Anne McLeish, Director, Diverse Education
Services; Kym Clayton, Program Manager,
Youth Engagement Team, South Australian
Department of Education and Children’s
Services
The Certificate II in Entrepreneurship and
Enterprise Skills is a new course. It assists
students to investigate potential vocations
that are grounded in their individual
passions. Students are challenged to
explore how they can convert a passion
into a profitable money-making venture.
The process involves them identifying
their enterprising skills, positively redirecting
any behaviour that might be
seen as making them less employable,
learning business-related skills (including
business communication skills financial
management) and developing a Business
Concept Plan that could be implemented.
Although the course targets students
(usually Years 11–12) who have struggled
to remain fully engaged with mainstream
education for whatever reason, it is also
relevant to any student wishing to gain
entrepreneurial skills.
This session provides an overview of the
course and highlights the practicalities
and benefits to students. For the past
decade Anne has conducted research
and projects to promote the generic
skills and enterprise education and
worked with schools to implement the
use of these skills across the curriculum.
Kym’s work has a focus on designing
and implementing youth engagement
and retention programs that encompass
enterprise and vocational learning with
community and work-based learning
education.
FB5 Marketing a start-up business
James Tuckerman, Founder and Editor in
Chief, Anthill Magazine
James founded Anthill Magazine from the
spare-bedroom of his parents’ suburban
home at the age of 26. He had no
previous publishing experience, very little
capital (a credit card) and the cynicism
of the magazine market as some of his
many obstacles. Join James as he shares
some of the financial dilemmas faced by
a start-up business and how to overcome
them. Financial reality 101!
3.00 – 4.00pm
Concurrent Session Group FC
Select ONE (only) of the following Group
FC sessions. Please indicate your session
selection by providing the session code
(eg FC1) on the online registration form.
Participants will be allocated in order of
receipt.
FC1 Financial literacy: a focus on
personal finance
Michael Drennan, Quicken Education
Manager, Australia and New Zealand
Quicken’s Personal Plus software
package enhances the teaching of
personal financial management by giving
students the tools to make appropriate
decisions when managing finances.
Learning to budget, categorising
income and expense transactions and
understanding the costs and benefits of
borrowing can be made more interesting
when students have the tools to assist

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their decision-making. This package is
also very useful in introducing students
to the concept of investment via the
purchase of shares in companies. Come
and learn more in this hands-on session.
Note: This session is hands-on and
numbers are limited.
FC2 Deeper thinking for students in
Years 9 and 10
Kathy Ambatzis, Canterbury Girls’
Secondary College, Victoria: Martin Gibbs,
Lowther Hall, Victoria
Martin and Kathy will emphasis how to
encourage students to learn through tasks
that strive to engage them in critical and
deeper thinking in order to understand
how factors affect society and the
environment as a whole. Using a variety
of resources from case studies to ICT
based activities they can allow students
a high degree of flexibility and creativity
in their approach to learning at the Years
9 and 10 levels. Through challenging
but achievable rich tasks students can go
beyond the expected levels to broaden
and develop their thinking.
FC3 Navigating the charter: civil and
political rights in Victoria
Jules Aldous, Deputy Principal, Shelford
Girl’s Grammar, Victoria
The Victorian Charter of Human Rights
and Responsibilities 2006 confers a
number of civil and political rights. From
January 2008, it imposes human rights
obligations on public authorities. In
this session Jules, Legal Studies teacher
and author and prominent presenter of
professional learning programs, outlines
the approaches adopted by the Charter
for the protection of rights, provides an
overview on the nature of rights protected
and responsibilities recognised, as well
as a discussing the possible implications
for the operation of the legal system in
Victoria.
FC4 Bring the real business world to
students
Terry Hughes, Managing Director
Australian Business Case Studies Pty
Ltd; Blair Cooper, The Peninsula School,
Victoria; Victoria Partridge, Content
Development Manager, Australian
Business Case Studies
Australian Business Case Studies brings
the real business world into Business
Studies classrooms. ABCS is a free
resource consisting of real-life case
studies of high profile business, industry,
and government bodies. The focus
of each case study varies, including
examination of practices relating to
corporate citizenship, marketing and
branding, human resource management,
the business environment, operations
management and more. Terry Hughes
and Vicki Partridge from Australian
Business Case Studies, along with Blair
Cooper from The Peninsula School will
provide an overview of the resource and
demonstrate practical applications (hard
copy and web-based) for the classroom.
FC5 Experiential learning in Business
and Enterprise Education: how does
it sit with conventional course and
assessment requirements?
Steve Barrile, The Grange P–12 College,
Victoria, and education publisher and
consultant
Steve Barrile is an experienced and
innovative teacher, course developer
and writer and resource creator. He has
observed that a significant dilemma
for many teachers of business studies/
management and enterprise is to make
their courses fit student needs in terms of
approaches and teaching and learning
styles and, at the same time, also address
some of the more conventional course
and assessment requirements. Experiential
approaches have become a popular
pedagogy but teachers need to feel
confident that student performance on
these requirements is not compromised.
Does there need to be a conflict? Steve
doesn’t think so and nor will you after this
session.
Steve will explore this issue with
participants and offer some practical
suggestions for application in both
conventional and more flexible courses
such as the VCAL in Victoria. In doing
so he will refer to selected resources,
including his own recent publication,
Doing Business.