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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 MEMBERS FREE Webinar Series: Utilising the School Environment for Learning in Science
Presenter: Sarah Todd, Coromandel Valley Primary School
Transform your science teaching with innovative, hands-on approaches from Coromandel Valley Primary School. Learn how to bring science to life by exploring the school environment—whether it’s using pulleys on the playground, engaging students in citizen science with binoculars and ID charts, or embedding Indigenous perspectives into a nature play space. This session is packed with practical ideas to create meaningful, real-world learning experiences for your students.
Details
Date:
Time: 4.00pm - 5.00pm
Venue: Online
Bookings close: 04/03/2025
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: Sarah Todd, Coromandel Valley Primary School
Transform your science teaching with innovative, hands-on approaches from Coromandel Valley Primary School. Learn how to bring science to life by exploring the school environment—whether it’s using pulleys on the playground, engaging students in citizen science with binoculars and ID charts, or embedding Indigenous perspectives into a nature play space. This session is packed with practical ideas to create meaningful, real-world learning experiences for your students.
About the Presenter
Sarah Todd
2023 Credit Union SA / SASTA Outstanding Contribution to the Teaching of Science Award Winner, Sarah Todd, brings her passion for the natural world into the classroom. With a background in animal care, she is dedicated to sparking curiosity and inspiring students through hands-on science and real-world connections. An active member of the Mitcham Hills Science Hub, Sarah thrives on collaboration and innovative teaching. Guided by her philosophy to "stay curious and love learning," she creates meaningful, engaging experiences for her students.
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."
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."
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 MEMBERS FREE Webinar Series: Fostering Engagement: Strategies to Minimize 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 MEMBERS FREE Webinar Series: Unlock AI's transformative power in your school
Presenter: Chris Bush, Leading Teacher at University High School
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, Leading Teacher at University High School
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, Gleeson 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, Gleeson 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.
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- 2025 Psychology Summer Conference
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- 2025 SASTA Annual Conference
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- SASTA Member Events
- 2024 Exam Post Mortem Recordings