Professional Learning
This section contains information, resources and tools to help teachers with their professional learning.
Career Education Association of Victoria (http://www.ceav.vic.edu.au) - CEAV supports career practitioners to improve and extend the quality of their programs and promote career development. The website provides information on careers and work experience, vocational education, professional development and CEAV news. Programs offered through the Strategic Partnerships Program: VELS rollout; Building and maintaining a careers community; Redefining careers in schools; Mentoring program; MIPS support; Work readiness; Upskilling and keeping up with change.
Consumer and Financial Literacy Professional Learning Program (http://www.financialliteracy.edu.au) - At the end of 2005, a National Consumer and Financial Literacy Framework was endorsed by MCEETYA. The Framework defined consumer and financial literacy as the ‘application of knowledge and understanding, skills and values in consumer and financial contexts and the related decisions that impact on self, others, the community and the environment’. This website aims to develop a national approach to providing teachers with the knowledge and skills to deliver consumer and financial literacy learning for students in the compulsory years of schooling.
Enterprise education in schools (http://www.dest.gov.au) - A part of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations’ website and provides information on what enterprise education is, why its needed, and government responses.
Social Education Victoria (http://www.sev.asn.au) - SEV supports teacher of History, Economics, Politics and Civics and Citizenship. The web site provides information about membership to the association, VCE and general SOSE resources (including audio files of VCE student revision lectures), forthcoming professional development opportunities, news and information about Civics and Citizenship education, discussion groups, publications, and membership information about the Social Education Association of Australia (SEAA).
Understanding Money – Education and Training (http://www.understandingmoney.gov.au/content/education) - Provides support and advice to teachers, trainers, human resource professionals who want to deliver financial literacy programs. It also provides advice for developers of financial literacy educational materials.
Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) (http://www.vecci.org.au) - Originally formed in 1851, the Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) is Victoria's most influential employer group. This website provides information about membership and member benefits, events, training, professional services, programs and industry news.
Victorian Commercial Teachers Association (VCTA) (http://www.vcta.asn.au) - The Victorian Commercial Teachers Association is an independent organisation which exists to provide leadership, support services, programs and resources to educators of economics, business, accounting and legal studies. The website provides learning materials for all of these areas.