SSTUWA in conjunction with Police & Nurses are happy to announce the Winners of the TOPS competition. Congratulations - $1,000 to Victoria McCann - the winner of “Current and new TOPS account holders” category Congratulations - $500 to Brook Johns - winner of “Members who join up new members” category.
If you're reading this and you would like the chance to win $1000 this Christmas, then your half way there. If you are a member of the SSTUWA and have a TOPS account you will be automatically entered into the draw. Members will be randomly selected in the draw to win $1000 and members who join new members will have the chance to win $500 in the draws held each term.
Elected union delegates from country areas recently participated in fully funded SSTUWA Union Representative training in Perth. Current and aspiring Representatives participated in a variety of activities designed to further develop their knowledge and skills related to their role. The course aimed to enable collaborative, effective and respected leadership in the workplace.
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.
To celebrate the use of Instructional Intelligence (II) in Western Australia an inaugural two day forum will be held in Perth on the 18 & 19 November 2011. The purpose of the forum is to provide a positive and supportive professional learning opportunity for teachers, trainers, administrators and managers to share their experiences of working with Instructional Intelligence (II).
The SSTUWA and Police and Nurses Credit are pleased to announce the two winners of $1000 to SSTUWA Members using the TOPS planner. The SSTUWA provides free online access to the TOPS online planning system by Curriculum Organiser for all members to use at work or at home. Since its inception, thousands of members have used TOPS to produce integrated programmes, lesson plans and assessments.
Did you know the SSTUWA provides high quality professional development to SSTUWA members? Two upcoming SSTUWA Education and Training Centre courses: "Know Your Agreement, Know Your Rights" - 31st October 2011 (Teacher relief is funded by DoE)
and the hugely popular "Early Childhood Educators’ Conference" - 18th November 2011
Independent Public Schools Forum Thursday 22nd September. The IPS forum delegates represented schools form both metro and country 2012 IPS intake. The consistent feedback we have from reps in IPS is that they did not have access to all information and time to digest and discuss all the issues. If you are an IPS school member – or – want to know more about the IPS issues – consider attending our TERM 4 IPS forum. Attend and be informed.
SSTUWA - EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTRE. The SSTUWA Education & Training Centre conducts high quality union training courses, specifically aimed at teachers and designed to meet he complex realities of the modern classroom. Our courses are usually conducted in the East Perth offices of the union, but we also hold sessions in rural location as well as coming to schools to conduct certain training events.
Level 3 Classroom Teacher Stage 2 workshops commenced this week. The ETC is working with Professional Development Unit to provide quality training that prepares teachers for the presentation required in stage 2. This year the union has a record five courses occurring over the week.
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