SRC - KLA Curriculum Linkages

Written by Charles Kingston - PASTA VP

 

First Developed as Schools Reports - Part D:
Originating from the 4th PASTA Overseas SRC Tour 2001
Subsequently published in 'Connect' - October & December 2001

As camps ended and melded into Texas Host School visit, daily school reports focused on the relevance of student leadership activities to separate subject and key learning areas in the total school curriculum. Subjects each day were chosen to befit the Tour activity for that day as close as possible - eg Science on day of visit to Houston Space Centre.

The content for each day here is:

1. What PASTA Overseas SRC Delegates are doing that day
2. Subjects highlighted in these activities
3. How the SRC curriculum in schools supplements learning in these areas
4. Sample SRC / School Project Ideas which focus on these areas
5. Related reflective question for the whole school community to link with the student leadership / student activities curriculum area

Examples: See within diary text below. The format is:

1. __________ July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegate Visit to ___________________

2. Subject Areas Focus: ________________

3. SRC involvement in schools supports these curriculum areas through:  a. b. c. d.

4. Some possible SRC-inspired projects to focus on  a. b. c. d.

 

5. How can our student leadership / student activity structures . . . ?  . . . beginning with an action / outcomes oriented verb .

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT - HEALTH

DAY 17 OF TOUR: (Leadership camps end/group travel continues)

Saturday 7 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegates finish 6 day National Leadership Camps in Nevada and Alberta and prepare to travel cross-countries again for new host school experiences in Texas

Subject Areas Focus: Personal Development / Health

a. Developing personal self-esteem and pride in group activity

b. Engaging actively in the implementation of rights and responsibilities for all students

c. Dealing with controversial issues

d. Being (within NSW DET at least) officially a part of the Statewide Student Welfare policies and programs

a. Introduce relaxation and coping with stress courses for students and staff

b. Encourage use of school canteen, offer to help there and examine food price and variety and nutritional value of offerings in it

c. Sponsor a drug and alcohol abuse program, panel, seminar or weekend workshop, involving local community group

d. Regularly carry out 'Just For Fun' activities . . . eg. wear 2 different coloured socks / tell someone who is beautiful that they ARE beautiful / write yourself a letter / walk around in a sandwich sign full of positive messages and thank yous / wear your watches on your legs / call or email someone special and remind them of how valuable they are / wear a Santa Claus suit - in public - in summer!

"LAUGHTER IS GOOD STUFF: it rejects ulcers; it cracks parched lips; it makes us human"

AND: "A smile goes a long ways towards success."

"How can our student leadership / student activity structures help create a positive and supportive school climate?

SELF-AWARENESS

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MATHEMATICS

DAY 18 OF TOUR: (arrive Houston - or await such the next day)

Sunday 8 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas SYLC Delegates fly and arrive in Texas, having to cross time-zones and cope with flight schedules again. Their colleagues at NLC cope with further flight delays)

Subject Areas Focus: Maths

a. SRC fund-raising projects create, count and redistribute figures

b. Internal SRC financial records require understanding and work on the part of more than just the Treasurer or Project Chairperson

c. Statistics and surveys and voting all involve maths related skills

d. Students on school councils help examine school budgets

a. Work with Maths Staff to organise and publicise periodic Maths Competitions

b. Organise a 'Numbers Needed' Day in which the entire school for the entire day is focused on numbers - eg. The History of Numbers, Surveys & Demographics, Numbers in Voting, Spreadsheets, 'Count for Your Counter Lunch' Meals, Colouring-In Numbers, Top 100 Musical Notes, Foreign Language Maths, Gee Whiz Geometry etc

c. Involve Maths classes in totalling and analysing projects of your SRC or within your school to do with statistics or budgets (eg surveys, fund-raising, transport and accommodation needs, sports carnivals results, drama production costs, school global budgets)

d. Engage non-SRC students who are good at Maths and/or computers to help to train SRC reps in aspects related to their job tasks.

How can our student leadership / student activity structures maintain accurate financial records and sustain a healthy balance of income and expenditure over which students have shared control?

PROBLEM SOLVING

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COMMERCE / BUSINESS STUDIES

DAY 19 OF TOUR: (Host Student Council welcome. Shopping)

Monday 9 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegates Welcomed by Student Councils in Houston Texas and go shopping in the big city

Subject Areas Focus: Commerce / Business Studies

a. Providing a leadership structure to reach out into the community and involve the school with businesses and service groups

b. Enhancing best corporate practice by envisioning and enabling the SRC to act as a business for the good of the school community

c. Enforcing comparative pricing of goods for SRC sale

d. Examining finance and marketing needs for fund-raising projects

Some possible SRC-inspired projects to focus on:

a. Start and maintain a Student Hire Service to find part-time jobs for real needs in the student body and community

b. Encourage involvement and help publicise the Young Achiever's Program

c. Regularly organise the order and sale of school windcheaters, t-shirts, caps, badges and/or special activity gear (eg sporting teams, SRC uniforms, clubs, arts groups etc)

d. Enjoin senior Business Studies students to analyse and evaluate best marketing strategies for SRC projects

How can our student leadership / student activity structures develop marketing / advertising strategies which involve large numbers of students in cooperative community fund-raising projects?

DECISION-MAKING

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SCIENCE

TECHNOLOGY / COMPUTERS / HISTORY

DAY 20 OF TOUR: (Space Centre & Kemah - a fishing village)

Tuesday 10 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegate Visit to Houston NASA Space Centre and to Kemah Fishing Village

Subject Areas Focus: Science and Technology, Computers, History

a. Stimulating interest in how things work and making new discoveries

b. Using computers for record keeping and creating project plans

c. Requiring maintenance and care of equipment and materials

d. Analysing problems and seeking solutions

e. Calling upon student expertise in practical technology subjects to enhance or implement SRC or School Council inspired projects

a. Work with Science staff / club to organise a Science Fair

b. Organise a 'Looking at the Heavens' Astronomy night

c. Have a student-parent-staff dinner with Scully Power or Andy Thomas - Australia's space shuttle astronauts (or Dr. Karl)

d. Work with Science staff to incorporate problem-solving of actual school / SRC projects into normal class curriculum

e. Offer to organise tutoring - for students in need, for grandparents or for primary children - in keyboarding, computers, woodwork, metalwork, agriculture, cooking, sewing etc

How can our student leadership / student activity structures extend the general environmental awareness and care of their materials and environment amongst the student body?

ORGANISATIONAL TECHNIQUES

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PERFORMING ARTS

DAY 21 OF TOUR: (Astroworld themepark / Evening with family)

Wednesday 11 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegate Visit to Astroworld

Subject Areas Focus: Performing Arts

a. Demanding and developing advanced communications skills - active listening and focused talking and diplomacy

b. Encouraging a willingness to be different, up front and open about strengths and positive participation

c. Focusing attention on spirit raising and motivation and fun

d. Reliance on essential give and take, the mutual support of all group members for ultimate performance success

Some possible SRC-inspired projects to focus on:

a. Work with Drama, Dance, Debating and Public Speaking staff and students to create vibrant, entertaining and informative assemblies led by the SRC

b. Provide live or recorded music at lunchtime - regularly or as special weekly events - or as a school radio (run by interested volunteers co-opted and assisted by the SRC organisation)

c. Sponsor professional & amateur plays, dances, danceathons, concerts, acting or circus skills workshops etc to be brought to your town or suburbs through your SRCs and school's initiative

d. Organise regular lunchtime cultural happenings put on by students (eg talent revues, poetry readings, arts displays, mimes, buskers, films, drama and dance class presentations, aerobics, concerts)

How can our student leadership / student activity structures present themselves to the students and staff in an entertaining way and thereby help sustain a sense of fun in school?

GROUP PROCESS

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LANGUAGES

CULTURE & SOCIETY

DAY 22 OF TOUR: (Galveston: Historical & Strand and Pier 21)

Thursday 12 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegate Visit to Galveston, Texas on the Gulf of Mexico. Includes a multi-media presentation on 'The Great Storm of 1989', visits to Hispanic influenced cultural areas and opportunities to taste and hear other accents)

Subject Areas Focus: Languages/Culture & Society

a. Practicing and surviving on good interpersonal relations amongst all representatives and with staff advisers

b. When truly representative is in tune with and inclusive of all parts of student body and a bridge to staff and community . . .

c. Therefore, is constantly having to translate for others, to others

d. Seeking and utilising knowledge of and social contact with the community outside the school

Some possible SRC-inspired projects to focus on:

a. Establish a 'current affairs club' to research and network with other schools, others' lives and otherwise distant countries

b. Make a 3 year team goal to help build a school in a developing country

c. Survey your community to discover other languages spoken in homes of students and the cultures they underpin. Contact these people as resources, then put together and offer your 'SRC Resource Book' of immigrants (recent ones or otherwise) to Faculties of Language, Human Society and Environment, English and any other faculty willing to use them.

d. Sponsor one or several students and your SRC Adviser to go on one of PASTA's Overseas SRC Tours.

How can our student leadership / student activity programs train students to speak the languages of so many different peer groups and respect, utilise and integrate the many multicultural backgrounds within our diversified student bodies?

MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS

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CIVICS & CITIZENSHIP

DAY 23 OF TOUR: (Question and Answer session with Student Councils - Participation, Leadership, Representation)

Friday 13 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegates Workshop with Texas Student Councils on youth activities, schools and cultures

Subject Areas Focus:

Volunteering & Community Involvement
(CSC, IYV and other volunteer recognition programs)

a. Practicing voluntarism and (defying the cynical & apathetic odds) encouraging positive views of politics, government and leadership

b. Understanding through doing (the best way) how our democracy works

c. Being citizens NOW. The overall theme of ISRC 2000 in Sydney was "Building A Better Today", chosen to emphasise the actions young student leaders and followers can do while still at school instead of some vague "future leaders" time.

d. Recognising such achievements on the part of themselves and others by accrediting it on school reports and providing public awards

Some possible SRC-inspired projects to focus on

a. Lead your school and community by embarking on the Community Service Certificate (CSC) Awards Program, jointly sponsored by the University of Newcastle - Central Coast and PASTA. Institutional Membership (eg School, SRC, Youth or Community Group) in PASTA automatically entitles you to use this program

b. Publicise individual volunteers and volunteer groups in daily notices or weekly newsletters and assemblies, especially in 2001 as part of the International Year of the Volunteer

c. Invite community volunteer groups to visit classes and explain their roles and needs

d. Work with all Year Advisers to assure that active voluntary citizenship activities are noted in school reports EVERY TIME.

e. Organise regular excursions to local Council and local Councillors to visit classes and lobby for SRC representation to Council

f. Stage a 'Voter Education Campaign' for a month prior to SRC and (if you still have them) School Captain or Prefect elections

g. Go one better and lead with what the community needs: Work with Staff, the P & C, School Council (if you have one) and local Council to have an electoral education campaign when local, state or national elections are coming up

h. Insist and Persist that SRCs and student participation projects are REAL curriculum - NOT "Extra" (as in extracurricular)

How can our student leadership / student activity structures implement the firm recommendation of the 1st International Student Representative Conference to:

"support and promote volunteer activities among young people and the involvement of young people in volunteer services" ?

GOAL SETTING

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VOLUNTEERING

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

COMMUNITY SERVICE CERTIFICATE

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE VOLUNTEER

CIVICS & CITIZENSHIP

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ENGLISH & FOOD TECHNOLOGY

DAY 24 OF TOUR: (With hosts and friends)

Saturday 14 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegates visit with billets

Subject Areas Focus: English & Food Technology abc¥

a. Skilling students in formal written communications such as letters, press releases, reports, evaluations, agendas and minutes

b. Promoting and training in active listening, response,paraphrasing

c. Making excellent use of person to person oral communications and keeping an active 'grapevine' alive for all events and unscheduled happenings around the school

d. Requiring and providing practical outcomes for creative, effective approaches to advertising, publicity, submitting proposals, debating issues

e. Raising the consciousness of the student body about nutrition

f. Developing a sense of a family within a family and the consequent need to balance personal and group needs within

a. Initiate or contribute to a regular student or school newspaper

b. Sponsor and organise journalism and photography workshops to help create the annual school yearbook

c. Organise a Youth Forum (with other schools or intra-house / year) where participating groups prepare presentations on real issues of concern to young people in the 21st Century

d. Lead the school in pen-pal communications (posted or email) by organising other student leader contacts through your SRC District and PASTA national / international networks

e. With school District Student Welfare Officers and school staff, carry out a comprehensive home needs analysis and make recommendations to appropriate authorities

f. Working with Design and Technology, Science and PD staff, create periodic projects which focus school attention on one or more of these: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the peers we keep, the space we live in, the lifestyle we choose

How can our student leadership / student activity structures improve literacy across the curriculum and role model a high level of English spoken and written in our schools and homes generally?

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION &

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

DAY 25 OF TOUR: (Splashtown - a water park / Mexican dinner)

Sunday 15 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegate Visit to Splashtown (plus have a real Mexican dinner)

Subject Areas Focus: Physical Education & International Studies

a. Emphasising teamwork and good sportsmanship

b. Keeping people actively participating in school and community affairs through encouraging a balanced approach to all activities

c. Working to inculcate student pride in all achievements at the school, including but not exclusive to those on the sporting field

d. Extending the Olympic Spirit through real contact with other districts, states and countries

a. Work with PE Faculty and all staff and parents interested in sport to organise skill workshops, including on coaching and refereeing

b. Sponsor an SRC / School Cheer Squad for sporting functions. Include lots of people not "on" the SRC. (Then, as with all projects, if they're in it, they ARE in IT!)

c. Research, network with people overseas or with alternative backgrounds, then organise an International Sports Day

d. OR an International Food Day (. . .see Day 22 - Languages / C & S)

e. OR a Multicultural Dress Day (DITTO above . . . work with them)

f. ADD Music and HAVE THE LOT (Yea, sure, it's called The Olympics every two years but why not have it at your school every year?)

How can our student leadership / student activity structures cater to the health and physical needs of the student body?

TEAMWORK

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GEOGRAPHY & AGRICULTURE

DAY 26 OF TOUR: (Travel to Hawaii - Smell the frangipani)

Monday 16 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegates Travel to Hawaii

Subject Areas Focus: Geography & Agriculture

a. Creating a personalised awareness of other places and people

b. Cultivating the need to analyse and maximise school space

c. Appreciating the limitations of finite resources and the responsibility to conserve them

d. Providing expertise in organising excursions and workshops

e. Developing pride in the care and presentation of projects

a. Sponsor and Organise and Put Fun Into 'Clean Up Australia' and 'Clean Up The World' Days (Assure they are annual SRC projects)

b. Create, debate and then submit environmental resolutions (KEY WORD: SOLUTIONS) to local, state and national parliamentary bodies

c. Hold an SRC Workshop at a local farm. If in the city, travel to a country school or an Agricultural Research Station or a Botanical Gardens for your workshop

d. Promote the School Farm. If you have one. If not, lobby for it.

e. Work with Geography Staff to have the ISRC 2000 Recommendations from Day 3 - "The Environment: Conserving Our Future" - presented, discussed and researched as part of the Geography curriculum

How can our student leadership / student activity structures increase global awareness and enable more students to benefit from travel opportunities?

PROJECT PLANNING

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HISTORY & LAW

DAY 27 OF TOUR: (Pearl Harbour, Arizona Memorial)

Tuesday 17 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegate Visit to Pearl Harbour, the Arizona Memorial and Museums in Honolulu

Subject Areas Focus: History & Legal Studies

SRC involvement in schools supports these curriculum areas through:

a. Developing pride in active citizenship, knowledge of leadership (through the ages as well as in current affairs) and the heritage of our democratic society
b. Applying research. inquiry and critical thinking skills to project planning, group dynamics and representational leadership generally
c. Requiring an understanding and appreciation of constitutional laws and processes
d. Debating real rules and personal history issues of direct relevance to student's daily and future lives and careers

Some possible SRC-inspired projects to focus on:

a. Start (or upgrade or expand or revise) a School Hall of Fame or Honour Board. Research it to find out what past students have accomplished in their lives after high school

b. Keep a scrap book of events for the year and help maintain and display school archives. Create a position of 'Historian' to lead

c. Create a Student Jury and annually review the school's rights and responsibilities documents

d. Organise a Model United Nations (MUNA) - OR a Mock Trial - OR an Issues Forum OR Simulations Games on Historical Characters OR a Simulated Political Party or Union Conference OR a Student Parliament (visit any of these elsewhere first for role models)

How can our student leadership / student activity structures develop the understanding and practice of rights and responsibilities of those who make up the school community?

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

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VISUAL ARTS

DAY 28 OF TOUR: (Hawaiian culture - Polynesian Centre)

Wednesday 18 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegate Visit to cultural attractions in Honolulu (eg Polynesian Centre)

Subject Areas Focus: Visual Arts

How can our student leadership / student activity structures create and maintain a colourful, attractive and artistically rewarding school environment?

CONCERN FOR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

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EVALUATIONS & ACTION RESEARCH

DAY 29 OF TOUR: (Hawaii - Evaluations and beaches)

Thursday 19 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegates workshop their group evaluation of the entire Tour and relax on the beaches of Oahu

Subject Areas Focus: Evaluations / Action Research and Student Leadership

SRC involvement in schools supports these curriculum areas through:

a. Requiring reflection and group analysis of the success or otherwise of a range of project initiatives and complex structures

b. Developing both formal and informal means of recording these

c. Examining best practice in other schools and other states and countries for ways of improving current practice or implementing new ideas

d. Allowing (in best practice SRC structures) a highly flexible approach to the participation of all students (not just those 'elected') as specific project needs suggest voluntary involvement

 

Some possible SRC-inspired projects to focus on

a. Hold 'post-mortems' of your SRC projects, workshops, meetings, excursions, tours. Revise the next ones accordingly so that they are even more effective

b. As student representatives from all age and peer groups, participate fully in the Annual School Reviews or periodic Quality Assurance tasks of the school or different faculties

c. Find out all you can about SRC Districts, State, National and International projects involving active student decision-making

d. Involve PASTA's International SRC Delegates (they WERE your representatives, remember?) from these Tours, or from ISRC , or others who attended other such networking functions. Help them follow up recommendations and implement current initiatives.

How can our student leadership / student activity structures evaluate their own constitution, daily practice and specific projects so that they can continue to grow in effectieness and/or be better the next time?

VALUES & ASSESSMENTS

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RESOURCES / NETWORKING & SRCs

DAY 30 OF TOUR: (Hawaii - preparing for departure home)

Friday 20 July 2001 - PASTA Overseas Delegates prepare to leave for Sydney and their 'lost day' crossing the International Date Line

Subject Areas Focus: Resources / Networking and SRCs

SRC involvement in schools supports these curriculum areas through:

a. Emphasising, researching and relying - as do ALL standard subject areas - on a variety of recognised human and printed resource contacts and materials from Australia AND from overseas

b. Creatively mixing people and their ideas from many backgrounds

c. Providing Professional Development opportunities for staff, and 'unmatched elsewhere' educational activities for students

d. For those subscribing as PASTA members, access to the 6 times a year now 22 years running Australian student participation magazine titled "Connect" (PASTA's Newsletter is only one small part of this invaluable resource for student activities and curriculum integration across all subjects and all years)

 

 

Some possible SRC-inspired projects to focus on:

a. Assure you have a large enough SRC office with plenty of display and storage space and sufficient room for at least small committee meetings and skills study sessions.

b. Fill your office with resources and use it and them daily

c. Liaise and work with teaching staff, your SRC teacher and welfare advisers, your Principal and Executive Staff, your District and State student leadership consultants. Keep them informed but persist also with being given regular information yourselves.

d. Access the NET. Check out your Department of Education Website (varies according to each state) . . . Nationally, Go to PASTA's Website: http://hsc.csu.edu.au/pta/pasta/ for information and contacts on a whole range of student leadership, representation and participation ideas and organisations

e. Sign up for the 2002, 2003 or future PASTA Overseas SRC Tours

f. Begin organising fund-raising now to send your SRC Adviser also

How can our student leadership / student activity structures regularly communicate with, meet and work together positively with similar groups in other schools and states and countries?

USE OF RESOURCES

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COMING HOME & WELCOMINGS

Sat 21 - ARRIVAL DAY BACK HOME - Homecoming / Welcomings

Saturday 21 July 2001 (NOW OZ TIME) - 4th PASTA Overseas Tour Returns

Subject Areas Focus: Coming Home / Welcomings

SRC involvement in schools supports these valuable moments by:

a. Providing a recognised positive peer group organised for others

b. Highlighting traditions and current achievements of school members

c. Creating a climate which encourages people to get to know others

d. Utilising experience and knowledge in new social situations

 

 

Some possible SRC-inspired welcomings to focus on:

a. Being available on call for ALL visitors to the school

b. Visiting primary schools to prepare the way for Year 5/6 students

c. Organising and staffing ongoing peer support for new students

c. AND, OF COURSE, inviting your PASTA Overseas Tour International SRC Representatives (Students or Adult Advisers) to share their experiences and resources

 

How can our student leadership / student activity structures welcome people to the school - for the first time or, when back at the school after representing it to others in Astralia or overseas?

RECOVERY DAY

Sunday 22 - 'RECOVERY DAY' (at home with family)

What PASTA Overseas SRC Delegates are LIKELY doing today: R & R

SEE ITEM BELOW and plan on sharing morning tea or lunch at school with staff tomorrow or the next day or the following week.

And today, family 'home-cooked meals' once again.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

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NEW COMMITMENTS

Mon 23 - START OF TERM 3 FOR NSW / QLD SCHOOLS

NSW - Development Days for Staff in most schools

What PASTA Overseas SRC Delegates COULD do on these days (if invited): Meet whole Staff and Briefly Summarise the Tour Experience. Follow this up then and later over a cuppa with specific invites to talk with classes, assemblies, P & C, School Councils, newsletters etc.

(N.B. IF not invited, then invite yourselves by ringing the Principal, your SRC Adviser, the Leading Teacher and arranging for it)

Subject Areas Focus:

COMMUNICATION WITH STAFF / PARENTS ¥

SRC involvement in schools encourages and enhances this through having an SRC and other student leadership / activity structures formally integrated within the overall decision-making practices of the school. For best practice, it requires SRC involvement as a natural training ground and preliminary criteria for any such School Captain, Prefect or other labelled leadership roles. Plus Staff Advisory Teams with sufficient interest, training and timetable support to do the job.

"The Great Aussie Bush Exploration Historical / Geographical / Scientific / Mathematical / Sporting Trek Development Day"

A Complete or Partial Package for Shattering Forever the Notion that Development Days are "Pupil-Free" Days - Of course, can be done also on other days - provided there is plenty of flexible, lateral thinking. (Ask PASTA for the Complete Plans of possible Activities involving students & parents)

How can our student leadership / student activity structures best support and benefit from the combined talents and resources of all members of the school staff, including ancillary staff?

DIPLOMACY

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REPRESENTATIVE HEROES RETURN

Tues 24 - BACK AT SCHOOL FOR ALL STUDENTS

2002 - 2004 Tour Applications open NOW

What PASTA Overseas SRC Delegates SHOULD do today is also what they should be doing all week and the rest of this term. Whenever they are recovered enough to do it well, the process should start:

• Talking to the whole staff and student body - as in Staff meetings and on assemblies - is necessary.
• Meeting people in designated interest groups - starting with your SRC - is expected.
• Meeting people in classes - and other timetabled opportunities - is needed - and negotiable with staff.
• Meeting peers and colleagues - and your own personal teachers - to talk in more depth - is essential.

SCHOOL DAZE

Wednesday through Friday 25-27 July 2001 - AND BEYOND

What school SRCs NEED to do to assist Delegates to do these days

Subject Areas Focus: SRC Representation to Student Body

• SRC involvement in schools supports this curriculum area through providing an association of motivated peers who mutually respect, assist and happily learn from each other's experiences and willingly communicate at every available opportunity.
• An inspired SRC project to focus on is a workshop to develop your new team and find ways and means of best utilising your new strengths.

How can our student leadership / student activity members help these and any other returning representative delegates to effectively inform the entire student body of their experiences?

CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT
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PASTA FOR LUNCH

Saturdays - PASTA COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Most Meetings on last Saturdays of the month at Professional
Teachers Council - Marion & Norton Sts. - Leichhardt Sydney

Post-Tour Focus: PASTA initiatives at grass roots levels & generating interest in future tours, ISRC & CSC projects

PASTA involvement in schools supports curriculum through:

a. Providing a long term, larger focused goal for student representation at national and international levels

b. Offering professional development activities, resources and networking contacts to teacher / advisers and students

c. Through the CSC Program, integrating, recognising and recording ALL adult and student participatory activities

d. Offering an established structure which has the potential to support teacher / advisers and student leaders both personally and professionally throughout the whole country

e. Being the only such existing national structure in Australia

 

Some possible PASTA-inspired projects to focus on:

a. Membership drive to get tour delegate schools / advisers involved

b. Networking with other states for national tour representation

c. Development of resource package based on tours for all schools

d. Lobbying for large-scale corporate and educational funding and administrative support to enable advisers to access these projects

e. Higher profile and improved working conditions for advisers

How can PASTA best create and sustain sufficient interest in schools and fund-raising organisations so that these tours continue and are seen as professional development activities for teachers as well as students?

MEETING SKILLS

PASTA MEETINGS

as a member, YOU ARE always welcome

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TOUR REFLECTIONS

Sun 29 July - Sat 4 August

Tour Reports Summary / Resources Collection of reports to schools to be finalised / Evaluation Forms (31 August deadline) to be sent

Sun 5 August - Sat 11 August

Follow up material to be sent to schools / copies to delegates & parents

Sun 12 August - Sat 18 August

"Email Energy Enthusiasms" - The Seria - not the Trivia - of this whole enticing exercise. (ALL Tour Delegates & Committee and Schools in communication to let people KNOW what you are doing and what needs doing. Further PASTA meetings, upcoming Professional Development Workshops for teacher advisers (eg October) await your input.

Sun 19 August - Sat 25 August -

Tour Evaluations Reminders from all sources / to all audiences

Friday 31 August - Deadline for Evaluations of Tour

* from Delegates * from Schools of Delegates

* from Parents * from other PASTA members

 

ON WITH THE SHOW

SEPTEMBER - PASTA MEMBERSHIPS DESIRED

FUTURE TOURS OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS & ADVISERS IN ANY STATE OR TERRITORY. APPLICATIONS ON NET SITE

REMEMBER, there's ALWAYS a place on these tours for parent and other valued non-teacher contacts to go with us. As there MOST CERTAINLY is for other SRC Advisers willing to volunteer as our Advisers have.

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST IN ISRC 2002 -2004

ALL CALLED FOR NOW

 

VISION

 

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