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QATA Minutes May 16

Design College is offering members of the Queensland Art Teachers Association the opportunity to participate in a 1 day letterpress personal development workshop specially designed for educators. The workshop will be hosted on Wednesday 4th July and will be available to the first ten QATA members for the discounted price of $145 (normally $185)*.

For more information on the workshop and to find out how to register first, please click on the following link:

http://designcollege.com.au/dca-inbox/art_teachers_letterpress.html

The discount code you need to apply the discount is ‘qatadca’, thus dropping the price to $145.  Click the red reserve your place button at the bottom of the information flyer, and follow the prompts to book and pay online.

Remember, this workshop is for 10 members only, so get in quick.  First in best dressed!!!

Our May QATA meeting is at Cannon Hill Anglican College this Wednesday, 16th May at 4:30pm.  We will be meeting at the Lecture Theatre, and best parking is highlighted on the school map, see below.  The focus for this month’s meeting is on sharing of practice, so please bring along with you a Year 11 or 12 VHA sample of work.  The aim is that you will walk away from the meeting with a good idea of what other schools are doing in Senior Visual Art, and hopefully some techniques that you can try with your own students back at school.

QATA AGENDA May 16

Cannon Hill Anglican College

Corner of Junction and Krupp Rds, Morningside.

Now in their 22^nd year, the awards promote and recognise excellence in senior visual art education in Queensland schools.

Teachers can register online.

All Queensland state and non state schools offering senior visual art are invited to submit up to four students’ work.

Submissions close 5pm on 27 July 2012.

For more information visit the website.

Each of these presenters’ courses has gained superb feedback from participants and can be viewed via the TTA Website.

Mastering Adobe After Effects – Gerry Haggerty

Advanced Digital Image Making Using Photoshop – Leigh Wagner

Body of Work Studio Reveiw Visual Art – Julie Seidel

Ready to Teach Graphic Design Unit – Leigh Wagner

ATA encourages student and teacher participation and provides an opportunity for all students who participate to succeed.
This year’s theme is ‘Cultures, Carnivals and Countries’.

The Achieve Thru Art program:

•         provides an online interactive art website for students and teachers
•         encourages students to research relevant themes and nurture creative expression
•         provides teachers with an educational tool that has been designed to meet school curriculum requirements
•         encourages dialogue between teachers and educators from participating countries, and
•         fosters cultural understanding and awareness between countries.

There are no costs involved for teachers to register or to upload student artwork.

Please view the website for further information about this exciting new program www.achievethruart.com

Prizes

• The $1000 Shillam Prize
• Secondary awards
• People’s choice award

Entry Form and Conditions

• PDF Entry Form
• DOC Entry Form

Enquiries

Events Coordinator:  Ros Haydon  ph 3349 8485           exhibitions@sculptorsqld.org.au

More information available here.

Fact Sheet – Certification of Highly Accomplished and Lead Teachers

Fact Sheet – Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework

Certification of Highly Accomplished and Lead Teachers – Principles and processes – April 2012

Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework – Consultation proposal – April 2012

Read an excerpt from Margery’s email below:

Subject: AITSL – Certification and Teacher Performance and Development Released!

I am pleased to write to you following the endorsement of the Certification of Highly Accomplished and Lead Teachers: Principles and processes.   The proposal was endorsed by Education Ministers on 20 April 2012 at the meeting of the Standing Council for School Education and Early Childhood (SCSEEC). This is another pivotal achievement in Australian education and is a step forward in our teacher quality strategy.

Certification at the higher career stages, underpinned by the National Professional Standards for Teachers, enhances the professionalism of teachers, enabling them to gain recognition for the quality of their teaching while remaining in the classroom.

The development of the certification principles and processes involved an extensive national process drawing on research, national and international expert advisors, analysis of existing practices across Australia, and consultation with teacher employers, regulatory authorities, national, state and territory peak bodies, and practicing teachers and school leaders

Another significant step in the teacher quality agenda is the release of the draft Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework for national consultation.  The Framework will ensure that every teacher, every year, in every school receives regular, appropriate and constructive feedback on their performance, opportunities to identify areas for development, as well as effective and ongoing support to further improve their practice.

The draft Framework has been developed based on research, national mapping and analysis of existing practices, and advice from national and international experts.  Following further national consultation and refinement the Framework will be presented to Ministers for endorsement at the Standing Council on 3 August 2012.

Support and training materials will be developed in collaboration and consultation with education stakeholders during 2012 and be available to support national implementation in 2013.

I have attached the final version of the agreed documentation (below).  Accompanying this communication are Fact Sheets that can be disseminated to teachers, school leaders and other education stakeholders to provide information and raise awareness.  A hard copy of all documentation will follow in the post.  More information can be found at http://www.aitsl.edu.au .

We are committed to improving the quality of teaching in our schools and to recognising, celebrating and sharing quality teaching practice.  We look forward to our continued work with you on developing and implementing these important initiatives.

Margery Evans
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL)

If it hasn’t got to your pigeonhole yet (or if you don’t have pigeonhole!), you can download a copy of the 2011 isabout Journal here. Please note – you will need to have a program capable of reading Adobe PDF documents  – if you’re having trouble opening this file, try downloading and opening with Adobe Reader X (it’s free!).

Please feel free to share and forward to your colleagues and any others that would be interested.

If you haven’t received a paper copy of the Journal and would like one, please get in touch with the QATA executive here.

Happy Professional Reading!

Errata Note: The article attributed to Lee Reimers is a collaborative work with Miranda Free. Lee Reimers is known professionally as Lee FullARTon not Reimers.