With the National Curriculum a reality teachers will have to implement, the SSTUWA Education and Training Centre has held a number of free professional development sessions focusing on using TOPS to help plan for the new curriculum requirements.

Highly praised by users as, TOPS is an online curriculum planning tool offered to members of the SSTUWA and accessible from within the member area of this website. All members need to do is log in and they have instant access to TOPS.

To make life easier for WA teachers, everything is linked to all planning assessment and resource documents. The Australian Curriculum linked to the WA Curriculum making it easier to adapt previous programs.

The free (members only) TOPS Training sessions give members the skills to control this user friendly and informative resource. TOPS training sessions highlight the simple step by step process and how to access the links, downloading documents and storage of documents and plans.

Feedback from course participants has been overwhelmingly positive.

Some feedback from members about TOPS Planner Training:

• Fantastic! Very helpful
• Two stars and a wish.
• Great resource, having individual laptops and whiteboard is a fabulous combination.
• Easy to understand and follow.
• WISH: I wish I had known about this when I completed my final prac.
• Excellent presentation and assistance.
• SSTUWA top marks for implementing

Some feedback from members about the TOPS Planner:

• Love it!! Makes teaching a lot more easy and puts teachers more ‘insync’ wit how they are teaching. Jasmine
• An amazing resource which will save so much time. All relevant curriculum/syllabus documents are included and linked Kirsten
• Effective tool in planning and programming and openers of linkage internationally. Xavier
• It’s easy to use. Well organised. Comprehensive. Nicola

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To register online for TOPS in Term 4 http://www.sstuwa.org.au/education/tops-training