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SASTA Professional Learning For Middle & Secondary Years
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 Term 1 Members Networking and Nibbles
We are excited to invite you to an exclusive afternoon of great conversation, networking, and refreshments.
What to Expect:
Connect: Whether you're a seasoned member or new to the community, this event is the perfect chance to expand your network and enrich your professional journey.
Indulge: Indulge in a selection of snacks and your first drink is on us!
Your Feedback Matters: We value your input and insights! Take this opportunity to weigh in with your feedback and suggestions. Is there anything our association can be doing better? Your opinions shape the future of our community.
We can't wait to celebrate with you and express our gratitude for your continued support and contributions to our science community. See you at the Members Networking and Nibbles event!
Details
Date:
Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm
Venue: Brickmakers Arms, 36 Chief St, Brompton, SA, 5007
Bookings close: 26/03/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Student Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Life Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Retired Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Membership - Business or Interstate School (1 day) | $0.00 |
Description
We are excited to invite you to an exclusive afternoon of great conversation, networking, and refreshments.
What to Expect:
Connect: Whether you're a seasoned member or new to the community, this event is the perfect chance to expand your network and enrich your professional journey.
Indulge: Indulge in a selection of snacks and your first drink is on us!
Your Feedback Matters: We value your input and insights! Take this opportunity to weigh in with your feedback and suggestions. Is there anything our association can be doing better? Your opinions shape the future of our community.
We can't wait to celebrate with you and express our gratitude for your continued support and contributions to our science community. See you at the Members Networking and Nibbles event!
2025 SASTA Annual Conference
The 2025 SASTA Annual Conference theme, "Decoding Science," builds on the National Science Week focus by opening the door to diverse explorations in quantum science, genetics, environmental studies, and beyond. "Decoding Science" invites educators to uncover the tools and techniques that make scientific principles accessible, understandable, and engaging for students at all levels.
Details
Date:
Time: 8.30am - 5.30pm
Venue: Glenunga International High School
Earlybird cutoff: 16/03/2025 (no longer available)
Bookings close: 09/04/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Non-Member (1 day) | $315.00 |
| Personal Member (1 day) | $190.00 |
| Personal Member - Lab Officer (1 day) | $160.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (1 day) | $72.50 |
| Corporate Member (SA School) (1 day) | $250.00 |
| Corporate Member (Business or Interstate School) (1 day) | $250.00 |
| Life Member (1 day) | $190.00 |
| Retired Member (1 day) | $190.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $190.00 |
| Presenter Non-Commercial (Non-Member) (1 day) | $160.00 |
| Presenter Non-Commercial (Member) (1 day) | $95.00 |
| Presenter Non-Commercial (Corporate - SA School) (1 day) | $125.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching SASTA Member (1 day) | $190.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching SASTA Member (1 day) | $190.00 |
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Non-Member (2 days) | $460.00 |
| Personal Member (2 days) | $275.00 |
| Personal Member - Lab Officer (2 days) | $230.00 |
| SASTA Student Member (2 days) | $125.00 |
| Corporate Member (SA School) (2 days) | $370.00 |
| Corporate Member (Business or Interstate School) (2 days) | $370.00 |
| Life Member (2 days) | $275.00 |
| Retired Member (2 days) | $275.00 |
| Joint Member (2 days) | $275.00 |
| Presenter Non-Commercial (Non-Member) (2 days) | $345.00 |
| Presenter Non-Commercial (Member) (2 days) | $205.00 |
| Presenter Non-Commercial (Corporate - SA School) (2 days) | $275.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching SASTA Member (2 days) | $275.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching SASTA Member (2 days) | $275.00 |
| Presenter Non-Commercial (Member) (2 days) | $205.00 |
| Exhibitor Registration (2 days) | $90.00 |
| Exhibitor Registration (2 days) | $90.00 |
Description
The 2025 SASTA Annual Conference theme, "Decoding Science," builds on the National Science Week focus by opening the door to diverse explorations in quantum science, genetics, environmental studies, and beyond. "Decoding Science" invites educators to uncover the tools and techniques that make scientific principles accessible, understandable, and engaging for students at all levels.
2025 MEMBERS FREE Webinar Series: AI Hacks
Presenter: Amanda Salha, Westminster School
In a field where Artificial Intelligence is interjecting in a range of teaching and learning spaces, it helps to have a better understanding of how it’s being used. More importantly, strategies to not only manage challenges in AI but to get ahead of the game and use it to our advantage as educators. This workshop will focus on ways teachers can use AI to save time, plan, report and differentiate for learning.
"Great at introducing me to new and valuable resources!"
"Simple useful hacks we want to know. I've already used alot of the skills we've learnt."
- 2024 Early Career Teachers Conference attendees.
Details
Date:
Time: 4.00pm - 5.00pm
Venue: Online
Bookings close: 06/05/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Membership - Business or Interstate School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Student Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Life Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Retired Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
Description
Presenter: Amanda Salha, Westminster School
In a field where Artificial Intelligence is interjecting in a range of teaching and learning spaces, it helps to have a better understanding of how it’s being used. More importantly, strategies to not only manage challenges in AI but to get ahead of the game and use it to our advantage as educators. This workshop will focus on ways teachers can use AI to save time, plan, report and differentiate for learning.
"Great at introducing me to new and valuable resources!"
"Simple useful hacks we want to know. I've already used alot of the skills we've learnt."
- 2024 Early Career Teachers Conference attendees.
About the Presenter
Amanda is a secondary Science teacher at Westminster School. She is passionate about teaching Psychology, student relationships and making life as a teacher more enjoyable.
2025 Implementing the Australian Curriculum: Science V9.0
Presenter: Jason Greenslade, Westminster School
AC 9.0 has been released and with that the need to make changes to our sequences/rubrics and curriculum documentation to fit with the new descriptors. This session will take a practical approach and show implementation (which we have done this year) and also cover (more briefly): task design, assessment types and rubrics.
Target audience: secondary teachers
Details
Date:
Time: 9.00am - 3.00pm
Venue: Education Development Centre
Bookings close: 14/05/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $160.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $160.00 |
| Corporate Membership - 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: Jason Greenslade, Westminster School
AC 9.0 has been released and with that the need to make changes to our sequences/rubrics and curriculum documentation to fit with the new descriptors. This session will take a practical approach and show implementation (which we have done this year) and also cover (more briefly): task design, assessment types and rubrics.
Target audience: secondary teachers
Implementing changes due to AC 9.0
- What are the changes
- How can they work with what you currently have
- Moving topics between year levels
- Curriculum documentation
- Leading teams in a time of change – driving buy in
- Auditing
Assessing accurately and meaningfully
- Example assessments
- What needs to be added to what you might already have
- Meaningful assessment of soft skills in the age of AI (a discussion of what this means for your existing assessment tasks that are not tests)
- Integration of cross curricular priorities and the general capabilities
Rubrics
- Changes in AC 9.0
- Reports and investigations
- Tests
- Assessing against rubrics
- Moderation/benchmarking activities
2025 MEMBERS FREE Webinar Series: Fostering Engagement: Strategies to Minimise Classroom Disruption
Presenter: Michael Lincoln, CESA
This workshop will explore some of the reasons children and young people disengage from learning and become disruptive in the classroom. With an understanding of these in mind, the workshop will explain a series of teacher-centred strategies that can be put in place to encourage engagement in learning and minimise the potential for disruptive and anti-social behaviour.
Details
Date:
Time: 4.00pm - 5.00pm
Venue: Online
Bookings close: 23/05/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Membership - Business or Interstate School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Student Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Life Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Retired Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
Description
Presenter: Michael Lincoln, CESA
This workshop will explore some of the reasons children and young people disengage from learning and become disruptive in the classroom. With an understanding of these in mind, the workshop will explain a series of teacher-centred strategies that can be put in place to encourage engagement in learning and minimise the potential for disruptive and anti-social behaviour.
About the Presenter
Michael Lincoln is a teacher with over 30 years of experience. As a classroom practitioner, he taught predominantly senior secondary. Michael has held a variety of roles that have focused on engagement and wellbeing. For the last 14 years Michael has worked as a consultant supporting individual teachers, small groups of teachers and school communities to understand child and adolescent disengagement and disruptive behaviour and implement strategies to maximise pro-social behaviour and engagement in learning. Michael has a particular interest in childhood and adolescent adversity and trauma responsive practices in education. He is trainer in Restorative Practices and is passionate about their ability to transform conflict and create harmonious learning communities.
2025 Design and Deconstruct
Presenter: Jason Greenslade, Curriculum Leader Science, Westminster School
This workshop is aimed at people who want to further their skills in setting, assessment and providing feedback on the D&D + practical report task. It also will cover the writing and marking of practical questions for tests and exams as well. There will be time to examine your own student work and participate in some cross-moderation and marking of work/drafts.
"A range of resources and strategies provided which included different science subjects and it was a really good opportunity to network with educators from different fields." - 2024 attendee
Details
Date:
Time: 9.00 am - 3.00 pm
Venue: Education Development Centre
Bookings close: 25/06/2025
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: Jason Greenslade, Curriculum Leader Science, Westminster School
This workshop is aimed at people who want to further their skills in setting, assessment and providing feedback on the D&D + practical report task. It also will cover the writing and marking of practical questions for tests and exams as well. There will be time to examine your own student work and participate in some cross-moderation and marking of work/drafts.
"A range of resources and strategies provided which included different science subjects and it was a really good opportunity to network with educators from different fields." - 2024 attendee
Program:
Morning Session: The D&D Reporting Task
- Performance Standards
- Introducing + structuring the task (inc. ideas for D&Ds + tasks sheets + resources to help)
- Providing guidance to students (drafting)
- Marking and moderation
Afternoon Session: The task continued + experimental questions in tests/exams
- Marking and moderation (cont.)
- Types of experimental questions
- Guiding students to answer these questions
- Writing experimental questions –how to structure them
Check out some more comments from 2024 workshop attendees:
"This workshop is very good as it gives clarity on the task and provides efficient ways to support the students to achieve at their potential. As well as providing teachers with tools to make drafting and marking more efficient and consistent."
"Jason Greenslade is an amazing presenter. Kept us all engaged throughout the whole day. Amazing resources and the willingness to support us well after the PD is amazing."
"Content presentation was wonderful! The presenter had extensive knowledge and was able to support staff discussions. He was able to answer any questions we had and had a significant amount of activities that had us completing tasks to support our practice!"
2025 MEMBERS FREE Webinar Series: Unlock AI's transformative power in your school
Presenter: Chris Bush, AI for Education Expert
In this webinar, AI expert and Leading Teacher Chris Bush will teach you how to harness ChatGPT and AI for revolutionary results. You’ll learn how to use AI for planning, assessment, marking, and more. Join us to discover the power of AI to transform your classroom and school so you can work smarter, not harder. Click here to download the flyer.
"AI feels so overwhelming with all that it can do. I now have a couple of key uses that I plan to focus on." - 2024 Attendee
"My team, which covers multiple faculties and learning abilities, will be most pleased with the information I can now bring regarding AI. This will also improve with practice. Yay!" - 2024 Attendee
Details
Date:
Time: 4.00pm - 5.30pm
Venue: Online
Bookings close: 09/09/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Membership - Business or Interstate School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Student Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Life Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Retired Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
Description
Presenter: Chris Bush, AI for Education Expert
In this webinar, AI expert and Leading Teacher Chris Bush will teach you how to harness ChatGPT and AI for revolutionary results. You’ll learn how to use AI for planning, assessment, marking, and more. Join us to discover the power of AI to transform your classroom and school so you can work smarter, not harder. Click here to download the flyer.
"AI feels so overwhelming with all that it can do. I now have a couple of key uses that I plan to focus on." - 2024 Attendee
"My team, which covers multiple faculties and learning abilities, will be most pleased with the information I can now bring regarding AI. This will also improve with practice. Yay!" - 2024 Attendee
What you'll learn:
- Transform planning: Craft compelling, AI-generated term outlines, lesson plans and assessments in seconds, complete with activities, solutions and rubrics.
- Personalise every path: Quickly design differentiated, tailored learning journeys that are adapted to individual student needs and strengths.
- Maximise your time: Streamline feedback and grading using AI, freeing teachers for deeper student interactions.
- Introduce and embed AI: Develop guidelines around the safe and appropriate use of AI in your context, bringing along all community members.
What you’ll leave with:
- Expert mentoring: Receive personalised support and strategies from a Leading Teacher and AI specialist.
- Ready-to-use prompts: Explore a curated library of classroom-tested prompts to spark immediate AI integration.
- Prompt mastery: Learn the techniques to craft your own powerful AI prompts with an easy-to-follow guide.
- Discover the best AI tools and policies: Access handpicked resources and policies that will lead to the most impactful AI integration for your classroom and school setting.
About the Presenter
Chrisopher Bush, Head of Student Voice and Leadership at University High School, is an AI for education expert who helps teachers unlock the full potential of AI. He guides aducators in creating engaging, student-centered experiences while streamlining work and mazimising their impact. With his expertise, you'll discover how AI can transform you school.
2025 MEMBERS FREE Webinar Series: Embedding gamification, innovation, immersion and storytelling into science lessons
Ross Riach, STEM Innovator & Laboratory Coordinator, Trinity College
This course is designed for all teachers to provide the tools and strategies to promote and harness the benefits of engagement, embed immersive, gamified and storytelling strategies to your lessons and create a love of science through innovative practices. This course is a modified version of the full day PD offered, focusing more on the benefits, approaches and examples of engaging science lessons without the hands-on, directed coaching on the skills to build / collaboration with peers to develop your own work.
"I really need to find creative ways to engage the current generation and this gave me some great ideas to try." - 2024 Attendee
"Engaging, informative, fun and thought provoking session. Job well done! Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge." - 2024 Attendee
"Fabulous presentation and workshop. Very useful information presented in an engaging way." - 2024 Attendee
Details
Date:
Time: 4.00pm - 5.30pm
Venue: Online
Bookings close: 21/10/2025
Event Pricing
| Type | Regular price |
|---|---|
| Personal Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Member - SA School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Corporate Membership - Business or Interstate School (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 1st Year of Teaching Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| 2nd Year of Teaching Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Student Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Joint Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Life Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
| Retired Member (1 day) | $0.00 |
Description
Ross Riach, STEM Innovator & Laboratory Coordinator, Trinity College
This course is designed for all teachers to provide the tools and strategies to promote and harness the benefits of engagement, embed immersive, gamified and storytelling strategies to your lessons and create a love of science through innovative practices. This course is a modified version of the full day PD offered, focusing more on the benefits, approaches and examples of engaging science lessons without the hands-on, directed coaching on the skills to build / collaboration with peers to develop your own work.
"I really need to find creative ways to engage the current generation and this gave me some great ideas to try." - 2024 Attendee
"Engaging, informative, fun and thought provoking session. Job well done! Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge." - 2024 Attendee
"Fabulous presentation and workshop. Very useful information presented in an engaging way." - 2024 Attendee
This professional development journey will equip you with both the 'why' and the 'how,' providing a wealth of resources and collaborative opportunities to enhance your teaching skills alongside fellow forward-thinking educators. You’ll discover the science behind engagement in learning and how it will make your students retain information longer, be more present and unleash a renewed love for science. From tips to avoid the dreaded Death by PowerPoint to embedding gamification, effective check-ins, lesson design and integrating storytelling into your practices, you’ll walk away with a plethora of ideas, inspiration and resources to transform the science classroom.