The Teacher Earth Science Education
Programme (TESEP) is designed to help middle school [upper Primary and lower
Secondary] teachers make better use of their time teaching Earth Science in their
classrooms through the provision of
 Professional Development
workshops
Updates to existing resources
New resources
Ideas for field trips
Access to teachers experienced in
this field
While aimed at middle school teachers,
teachers from all school levels will benefit from attending the programmes on
offer.
TESEP operates under the auspices of
the Australian Science Teachers Association (ATSA) and is funded through
donations from a wide variety of partners. TESEP activities are managed through
the ASTA head office with oversight by the TESEP Chairperson, Jill Stevens, the
TESEP Executive Officer, Greg McNamara, and an advisory board comprising
personnel from ASTA and key industry, government and professional societies.
TESEP is managed at a state level by experienced teacher coordinators.
TESEP's first series of
professional development workshops, entitled The Challenging Earth, is now
highly acclaimed and well established. The topics for the workshops were selected
from those nominated in an Australia wide survey of teachers. They reflect
topical issues and teacher needs and are designed to mesh with existing
curriculum requirements in all states. The eight topics are
PD1: Round and Round with
Rocks
(The rock cycle, ore bodies and crustal
geology)
PD2: Riding the Climate
Roller Coaster
PD3: Greening coal
(carbon sequestration)
PD4: Fossil sunlight (the
hydrocarbon story)
PD5: Wet rocks (ground
water)
PD6: Hot rocks
(geothermal energy)
PD7: Our Place in
Space
PD8: Powerful stuff (the
energy debate)
TESEP Stage 2 is now under development
and will comprise
On-line interactive
webinar delivery of Stage 1 PDs
Ongoing delivery of Stage
1 PDs in new locations
across regional Australia
Development of national
case studies to supplement
existing textbooks
Development of field
guides - simply-worded stop-by-stop
descriptive guides for teachers and worksheet
questions for
various year levels
Purchase and distribution
of quality teaching resources to
participating teachers
Documents for download
Stage 2 Partnership brochure
Stage 2 Partnership guide
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