Professional Support

Heritage Project (pdf - 37kb) Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3
Three resources to support teaching about heritage. The aim is to make heritage education active and participatory, relevant, effective, accessible and fun. The article outlines the outcomes and subject matter for each of the three resources.

An Australian Compact (pdf - 447kb) Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3
Is there a civic faith that all (well, nearly all) Australians might be expected to share; and, on occasion, in their own ways, affirm? As a matter of fact there may be. The beginnings of an answer may be found in a recommendation made in 2001, the year of the centenary of federation, in the Australian Citizenship Council's report, Australian Citizenship for a New Century. The Council suggested an Australian Compact; and it listed the principal ideas that most people would accept as strong in our Australian liberal-democracy.

Developing a school scope and sequence plan for HSIE K-6 (pdf - 33.5kb) Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3
The article outlines the integration of HSIE resources into a scope and sequences plan.  HSIE and Controversial Issues (pdf 37kb) Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3
The K-6 HSIE syllabus is very different from other documents that may have been used in this learning area. It mandates both outcomes and subject matter for each stage of learning. Potentially controversial issues are scattered throughout the syllabus at every stage. The article outlines how to deal with potentially controversial issues in the HSIE K-6 syllabus.

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights Day (pdf 203kb) Stage 3
Many of the rights enjoyed by Australians today can be traced back to the struggle of people and groups who lived in much earlier times. The article gives an overview of the development and philosophy of human rights.

Doing Canberra (pdf 34kb) Stage 3
In the HSIE K-6 syllabus, Stage 3 outcomes and subject matter give a strong basis for excursions to Canberra. The article looks as the outcomes and subject matter in relation to the places visited.

Australia's experience at war (pdf 149kb) Stage 3
This unit outline has been written both as a model for using an excursion as a central resource and as a model unit on Canberra, with an emphasis on Australia's identity and the place of war in Australia. Australia's experience at war focuses on two Stage 3 outcomes from Change and continuity and Environments.  Register of War Memorials (pdf - 267kb) Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3
This project invites teachers and students in NSW schools to actively participate in photographing and recording all war memorials to Australian service personnel within their local area. War Memorial Form (pdf - 57kb)

A National Conversation was delivered as part of the NSW Centenary of Federation celebrations. Ten prominent Australians, representing a range of views and backgrounds spoke about about the different forms of diversity and the sources of unity that continue to shape Australian society:
Lois Bryson (pdf 35kb)
Greg Craven (pdf 43kb)
Rick Farley (36kb)
John Hirst (pdf 35kb)
Donald Horne (pdf - 27kb)
Helen Irving (pdf - 36kb)
Mary Kalantzis (pdf 40kb)
Lydia Miller (pdf 38kb)
Belinda Probert (pdf 43kb)
Elaine Thompson (pdf 30kb)