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Memorandum to Schools 30/2008

10 April 2008

VCE Food And Technology Teacher Professional Learning At Melbourne Museum

The State Reviewer for the School-assessed Task will discuss requirements and assessment criteria for the School-assessed Task, and available resources. Teachers are able to view the Top Designs exhibition prior to hearing from the State Reviewer. A teacher and their students whose work appears in the exhibition will discuss their experiences and how teachers can best assist students in the development of the School-assessed Task.

Author of the book The Conscious Cook, Giselle Wilkinson will discuss the importance of developing foods that have minimum impact on the environment, by choosing ingredients with awareness, selecting locally and seasonally grown produce. This presentation will inspire a new approach appropriate to the twenty-first century and the challenges we face particularly in relation to climate change.

Date: Monday 21 April, 4:00pm – 7.00pm

Program:
4:00 – 4:45pm

• Registration and Exhibition viewing (Top Designs Exhibition space at the Melbourne Museum)

4:15 – 4:45pm

• Refreshments (The Age Theatre Plaza)
  (Move into The Age Theatre)

4:45 – 5:45pm

• Welcome and Introduction to the Museum and the Top Designs Exhibition
  (Melbourne Museum staff)
• 2008 School-assessed Task criteria for VCE Food and Technology and available teacher resources, Lorraine Tran (Curriculum Manager, P – 12 Design and Technology, VCAA)
• Achieving Excellence in the School-assessed Task (with reference to student work in the 2008 Top Designs Exhibition)
  Lyn Baker, State Reviewer for VCE Food and Technology
• Question time/discussion

5:45 – 6:15pm

• Two 2007 Units 3 and 4 Design and Technology students and their teacher discuss their experiences of completing the School-assessed Task.

6:15 – 6:50pm

• Special Guest Speaker Giselle Wilkinson, author of the book The Conscious Cook.

Giselle Wilkinson has been a social and environmental activist for over thirty years. Influenced by early experiences of communal living and travel and her studies toward a Masters degree in Education, Giselle realised earlier then most that choosing to live consciously is a powerful force for positive change.

Her involvement in founding and shaping the Sustainable Living Foundation continues to satisfy her deep longing to help catalyse change and to stimulate and empower others to engage.

Cost: $15 (including GST)

Venue: Melbourne Museum, Carlton Gardens, Rathdowne St., Carlton

Bookings: Telephone 1300 130 152 between 8.45 am and 5:00 pm

Note: The Top Designs exhibition catalogue will be available for purchase on the evening from the Melbourne Museum shop which closes at 5:00pm. The Top Designs exhibition catalogue is also available from VCAA by mail order. The order form is available in the 2008 February VCAA Bulletin or online at: http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/seasonofexcellence.html .

The cost of the catalogue is $20 which includes GST, postage and handling. The catalogue includes a CD-ROM that contains additional resource material such as student folio pages.

The Top Designs Exhibition is open from 10 April – 29 June 2008.

 

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