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Download the 2025 Professional Learning Calendar (PDF) to see what's on offer. Keep an eye on this page for event registrations when available.
Please note: If you require an invoice for school payment, please simply select Bank Transfer at the payment option during your booking. This will email you an invoice - please wait approximately 15 minutes for this to come through.
Cancellation policy:
Notice of cancellation received more than 48 hours before the event will incur a standard $50 administration processing fee, any registration fees received in addition to this amount will be refunded. For cancellation notice received less than 48 hours before the event, registration fees unfortunately cannot be refunded.
Should SASTA need to cancel or reschedule a professional learning event, then all registered delegates can opt either to receive a full refund or have their registration transferred to the rescheduled event.
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2025 Early Career Teachers Conference
Details
Date:
Time: 8.30am - 4.30pm
Venue: Nazareth Catholic College - Senior Campus, 344 Findon Rd, Kidman Park
Bookings close: 08/10/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $160.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $160.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching (1 day) | $160.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching (1 day) | $160.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (1 day) | $55.00 |
| Corporate Member (SA School) (1 day) | $205.00 |
| Non-Member (1 day) | $250.00 |
| Student Non-Member (1 day) | $100.00 |
Description
SASTA is committed to providing opportunities for Early Career Teachers to network and learn with and from each other. In addition, we seek to provide you with access to expert education practitioners and leaders to ensure you have every opportunity to understand and succeed in this important profession.
This one-day conference provides graduates and teachers in the first few years of their career with an opportunity to share and reflect on their professional identity, professional practice, wellbeing, and to develop connections with other early career educators.
The Conference will include specialised workshops for both Primary and Secondary Teachers
This hands-on interactive professional learning day will cater specifically for each level of schooling.
Morning Tea and lunch will be provided and there will also be a chance to network with other teachers and the presenters at the HAPPY HOUR!!!
National Professional Standards for Teachers:
Teachers will receive a certificate of attendance that details the hours of professional learning and Standard 2 Focus Areas 2.1 and 2.2, Standard 3 Focus Area 3.2, Standard 6 Focus Area 6.2 and Standard 7 Focus Area 7.4
Check out some of the comments from last year's conference!:
- "It was an incredibly rich learning day, having the opportunity to be inspired by great professionals in the field. The share-a-thon was a fantastic idea, it would be great to see this run for a range of different subject areas."
- "It had a great mix of presenters and provided a great opportunity to network at the conference. I left with newfound perspectives, contacts, and tools to add to my teaching kit. Incredibly valuable to early career teachers."
- "I thought it was the most useful conference I've ever been to!"
- "All sessions I attended were excellent with practical resources provided to directly use in my middle school classes"
2025 Years 7-10 Design Investigations: Time to play Workshop
Presenter: Vera Dunaiski and Brayden Pullen, Westminster School
A hands-on practical session trialling different ideas for investigations suitable AC 9.0 from Years 7 -10.
"Excellent display and array of experiments that fits the Australian Curriculum."
Details
Date:
Time: 9.00 am - 3.00 pm
Venue: Westminster School
Bookings close: 29/10/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $160.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $160.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $205.00 |
| Non-Member (1 day) | $250.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (1 day) | $55.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching (1 day) | $160.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching (1 day) | $160.00 |
Description
Presenter: Vera Dunaiski and Brayden Pullen, Westminster School
A hands-on practical session trialling different ideas for investigations suitable AC 9.0 from Years 7 -10.
"Excellent display and array of experiments that fits the Australian Curriculum."
The workshop will involve guidelines on supporting students to deconstruct and design appropriate investigations. Participants will have the opportunity to trial and adapt methods designed around investigations such as:
- Flow rates of liquids
- Rope making
- Aerobic Respiration
- Fermentation
- Motion of objects
- Rates of chemical reactions
Time will be set aside for collaborative sharing and brainstorming of ideas.
"Amazing presenters who knew their stuff and were so helpful and happy to share their resources."
"Excellent overall, gave specific and pertinent advice re teaching strategies."
2025 Leading in Science Workshop
Calling all science leaders and budding leaders!
This session is intended for people who are current science department leaders or aspire to be one! Come along and network with other like-minded individuals whilst learning some new skills which might help you either in your current role, in the future or to further enhance the learning and teaching at your school.
Presenter: Jason Greenslade, Curriculum Leader: Science and Applied Science, Westminster School
"Today was an enjoyable day filled with excellent networking and conversation. Jason was extremely generous with his time, resources and willingness to discuss all manner of topics during the day."
Details
Date:
Time: 9.00 am - 3.00 pm
Venue: Education Development Centre
Bookings close: 12/11/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $160.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $160.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $205.00 |
| Non-Member (1 day) | $250.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (1 day) | $55.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching (1 day) | $160.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching (1 day) | $160.00 |
Description
Calling all science leaders and budding leaders!
This session is intended for people who are current science department leaders or aspire to be one! Come along and network with other like-minded individuals whilst learning some new skills which might help you either in your current role, in the future or to further enhance the learning and teaching at your school.
Presenter: Jason Greenslade, Curriculum Leader: Science and Applied Science, Westminster School
"Today was an enjoyable day filled with excellent networking and conversation. Jason was extremely generous with his time, resources and willingness to discuss all manner of topics during the day."
Topics covered will include:
- Leading learning and teaching – some ways to organise work and processes in a modern science faculty
- Setting high (but achievable) standards for students
- Timetabling - putting people in the right places
- Organisation of faculty work jobs and roles (leaders within a faculty)
- Working consistently – tasks, pedagogy and process
- A framework for consistency in tasks, planning and execution whilst encouraging individuality within classroom instruction
- Running effective meetings – use of agendas and minutes effectively
- Managing staff performance in learning and teaching
- How to encourage staff ‘buy-in’ and handle change
- Lesson observations as a tool for moving to reflective practise – how to encourage and embed the use of the AITSL standards
- Including how to conduct lesson observations
- How to effectively gather student data on learning and teaching
- Review processes + processes for improvement
- Goal setting and review
- Using data for improvement – ICAS, results, SACE etc.
- How to write a targeted action plan for strategic improvement + how to review it
- Faculty based internal moderation – how to organise, carry out and review
- Pedagogy sharing and its importance + getting the most out of PL
- Laboratory technicians and laboratories – encouraging best practice and performance + potential ways to organise labs to streamline practical management
- Online Practical Ordering – options and usefulness
- New buildings? Considerations and what we learned from our building programme and new laboratories
"I was highly impressed with the quality of this PD. It was engaging, insightful and well managed."
"I really liked it and it was absolutely relevant to the leadership role. Jason was honest, blunt and relatable."
"Jason was very insightful to the role of science leader and open with his sharing of practice."
2025 SACE Chemistry Design Investigations: Time to play Workshop
Presenter: Vera Dunaiski, Westminster School
A hands-on practical session trialling different ideas for investigations suitable for Stage 1 and 2 Chemistry. The workshop will involve guidelines on supporting students to deconstruct and design appropriate investigations.
"This workshop was excellent - it was well-organised and gave participants the opportunity to try out some new investigation/practical ideas."
Details
Date:
Time: 9.00 am - 3.00 pm
Venue: Westminster School
Bookings close: 19/11/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $160.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $160.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $205.00 |
| Non-Member (1 day) | $250.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (1 day) | $55.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching (1 day) | $160.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching (1 day) | $160.00 |
Description
Presenter: Vera Dunaiski, Westminster School
A hands-on practical session trialling different ideas for investigations suitable for Stage 1 and 2 Chemistry. The workshop will involve guidelines on supporting students to deconstruct and design appropriate investigations.
"This workshop was excellent - it was well-organised and gave participants the opportunity to try out some new investigation/practical ideas."
Participants will have the opportunity to trial and adapt methods designed around investigations such as:
- Nitrogen fertiliser retention in soils
- Kc values and concentration of reactants
- Properties of biopolymers
- Use of natural resins as adhesives
- Water disinfection
- Acid effects on shark teeth or marine shells
- Effectiveness of soaps and detergents
- Making and testing biodiesel
Time will be set aside for collaborative sharing and brainstorming of ideas.
"I really appreciated the time and effort that went into this workshop. There was no wasted time. There was a lot of hands on opportunity to try the experiments and experience it somewhat like our students would when we give them a task. I gained some possibilities at both stage 2 and 1 to try for design and deconstruct. Excellent workshop."
"It was great to get some fresh ideas for D & Ds at Stage 1 and 2. It was also very hands-on and an opportunity to network with other Chemistry teachers."
In this Section
- Professional Learning
- All Professional Learning
- For Primary Years
- For Middle & Secondary Years
- 2025 Early Career Teachers Conference
- 2025 STEM Conference
- Stage 2 Marking & Moderation Workshops
- Ediacaran Teacher Scholarship to the Flinders Ranges
- Members Free Webinar Series
- SASTA Member Events
- 2024 Exam Post Mortem Recordings