Welcome or welcome back to the
PASTA 'What's New?" page.
This page highlights current events as well as new and perennially
relevant items followed up in more detail on other pages.
All pages within this site have
been revised and updated as of June 2004 (unless otherwise dated).
Extensive changes and additions have been made to several main pages
highlighted here and many new additional linked files have been
added.
Go To: "NATIONAL PROJECTS &
ISSUES" for a new format within which you have some topics and
questions to which we urge you to respond
We welcome your suggestions and
assistance. See How To Contact Us?
Contact PASTA for skills workshop,
resources and adviser support.
PASTA Calendar (2004 / 05)
- 3-4 January: 2004 Tour reunion weekend (Norah
Head, NSW)
- 22 January: NSW DET / PASTA meeting (Ashfield)
- 28 February: AGM (PTC Leichhardt) & General
Mtg - Election of New Committee, Calendar and Working Conditions
- 10-11 April: ISRC 2004 Tour Orientation (Central
Coast NSW)
- 23 April: NSW DET / PASTA meeting
- June - OS Delegate projects on ISRC recommendations
- 26 June: PASTA Meeting (venue TBA) - future PD
plans & publications
- 15 July: NSW DET / PASTA meeting
- 29 July: 7th Tour departs for Canada (ISRC 2004)
& USA Leadership Camp
- 3- 7 August: 2nd International Student Representative
Conference - Edmonton CANADA
- 25 August: Return from Tour (some delegates may
return following ISRC)
- 28 August: PASTA meeting (venue TBA) - PD: 2004
Tour Report & ISRC local Action Plans
- 18 September - 'Fresh Start 2004' (PD Day) - PTC
Liechhardt.
- 7 October: NSW DET / PASTA meeting
- 23 October: PASTA Meeting (venue TBA) - PD: PASTA
resource modules
- 4 December: Christmas Meeting (dinner venue TBA
- as for all meetings, everyone welcome)
- early January 2005 - ISRC 2004 Delegates Reunion
(venue TBA)
- 26 February - 2005 AGM (PTC - Leichhardt)
- c. 25 June / 24 July 2005 - 8th Overseas SRC Tour
(69th NASC Conference, National Leadership Camp and host school
visits)
2nd International Student Representative
Conference
(For Secondary Student Leaders and Advisers)
3-7 August 2004 Edmonton Alberta CANADA
Hosted by Harry Ainlay HS - Host Coordinator Gane Olsen
Supported & Planned By CASAA (Canada), NASC (USA) and PASTA
NEW 2004 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTED
The AGM election results on Sat 28 Feb were the following.
Contact the Secretary if you are interested in other positions or
temporary roles with various subcommittees and projects.
OFFICERS
President: Ken Page (Central Coast NSW)
Immediate Past President: Bob Kijurina (Campbelltown)
Vice-President: Charles Kingston (Bathurst)
Vice-President: Tony Gleeson (Alstonville NSW)
Secretary: Ellen Sheerin (Asquith Girls - Hornsby)
Assistant Secretary: Iktimal Hagali (Sydney)
Treasurer: Sue Page (Narara Valley HS NSW)
Member Represenatives
Greg Arrow (University of Sydney)
Christine Murray (Asquith Girls - Hornsby)
Mark Dell 'Oro (Aquinas College - Western Australia)
Lisa Wiseheart (Central Coast NSW)
Rebecca Heinrich (Western Sydney)
Anna Dickinson (Newcastle Area)
Alf Walker (Goulburn NSW)
NSW SRC Representative Student Liaison
Taryn Dircks (Swansea HS)
Go To 'How To Contact'
for contact details on above officers and other PASTA contact people
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2004 AGM - PRESIDENT REPORT &
CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES
From Ken Page - 28 February 2004
This report was presented in its entirety for consideration
of the Executive Committee and Members present at the 2004 AGM. All
financial members receive a summary copy as part of the Minutes of
that meeting, together with the annual financial statement and a list
of the constitutional changes ratified at that meeting.
Go to WHO WE ARE
page for report summary and details of constitutional changes
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NEW...NEWNEWNEW...FOR YOU
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"LET'S GET CRITICAL"
SRCs are NOT worth the 3 letters they represent
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Or are they?
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Whether student, SRC Adviser, Principal, Minister for Education,
Prime Minister - and parent - consider this. Is your own school
SRC - are SRCs generally - valued and supported enough to be and
do S & R & C effectively?"
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In spite of all the fine words and occasional feverish activities,
the sad real-life, down-in-the trenches, grass-roots experience
is more often than not the opposite. Or a mere, gradually fading
imitation of the initial promise.
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Let's try, shall we?
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CHECK OUT THE ISSUES FOR ADVISERS
page for
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"Professional Development = Profile,
People, Promotion"+
New 'Guest Member Column' (the above critical question)
AND, crucially for the future, Working Conditions
& Rewards
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Go to CURRICULUM page
for
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"Quality Standards for an SRC Project"
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Together with suggested skills activities
("'Chop Off Your Head!' the Chairperson said") and more on our resource
modules.
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Such new or revisited revised material
was part of our special 12 page Newsletter #36.
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'Connect' Double Issue #145-146,
Feb-April 2004
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Read the report (new on this site)
of the 2004 OS Tour
& the latest on ISRC 2004
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Go To: " Each time, I have answered
wholeheartedly 'Yes.' &"If We Had Only Known"
2003 Student Delegation President Mark Childs & Delegate
Bronwyn Weir's Reports
(Also See 'Connect' article October 2003)
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Go to SRC Leadership
Tours for links to similar articles by students on past
tours.
Afraid to Write? Don't Have the
time?
Go To the "Teacher / Student Writing" series
as also published in 'Connect'
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Write your own articles / essays / outlines
/ notes / poems / letters etc
OR
send for sharing skills, organisational & motivational material
you have found successful. Credit it. We will find a place and time
to publish it.
THINGS TO DO JUST FOR FUN
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Wear two different
coloured socks . . .Wear your watch on your leg . . . Follow the
postman. . .
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Take a bath
with your clothes on . . . Change your clothes every hour . . .
Wash your neighbour's car . . .
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Wear a Santa
Claus suit...in public...in the summer . . . Cook a meal for a blind
person
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Walk around
in a sandwich sign . . . Walk around in slow motion. . . Give an
apple to a teacher . . .
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Tickle somebody's
feet and say it makes you laugh . . . . . . Send your grandmother
some flowers
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Write or call
a TV or radio station and tell them that an excellent programme
IS excellent
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Tell someone
who is beautiful that they are beautiful . . . Write yourself a
letter. . .
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Call someone special and remind
them of how valuable they are . . .Get real: Tell yourself the same
thing
Laughter is good stuff;
It rejects ulcers; it cracks parched lips;
it makes us human."
Table
of contents for the rest of this new "What's New ..."
1 "FRESH START 2004" (Professional
Development Day)
2 SRC
/ SLA ADVISER WORKING CONDITIONS
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CALENDAR OF MEETINGS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
4 OVERSEAS
ISRC LEADERSHIP TOUR 2004
5 COMMUNICATIONS
OUTLETS
6 MEMBERSHIPS
(for the price of a good meal, a whole year)
7 YOU
TELL US! (Whereto now? Your input wanted.)
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KEY CONTACTS FOR MAJOR PROJECTS
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1 "Fresh
Start Professional Development" |
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SRC / SLA Adviser Working
Conditions |
"Fresh Starts' are professional
development days run in conjunction with the NSW DET Pupil Wellbeing
Unit. Target audiences are student leadership advisers, consultants
or Pupil Welfare Officers. The interactive process is designed
so that all participants may discover ways of effectively guiding
their overworked selves and their SRCs. It is for those new
to the job. Or 'old hands' simply in need of some personal or
SRC rejuvenation.
Venue: Professional Teachers Council, cnr Marion & Norton
Sts - Leichhardt
Times: 8:30 for 9:00 AM start to 4 PM (end of formal
program)
Cost (incl GST): PASTA Members - $44 / Non-Members
- $55
CONTACT US
RE. DATES OF THESE AND OTHER PD OPPORTUNITIES IN 2004/05.
Go To 'Issues For Advisers'
and / or 'Curriculum' page for
program ideas
Go to Fresh Start 2 Evaluations
for Summary of Feedback on 2003 PD Day
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"Professional Development
Equals:
PROFILE, PEOPLE, PROMOTION"
See also in the February - April 2004 issue
of 'Connect' for this article, including the current draft resolutions
re. improving profile and status of SRCs and SRC Advisers generally
that appear here on the Issues for Advisers page.
"Submission to The Department of Education
and Training (DET) for Support In Principle of Working Guidelines
Between PASTA and DET to Raise the Status of Student Representative
Council Teacher Advisers"
For some years PASTA has pursued ideas on structural
changes within schools to formally improve the conditions and
status of those teachers working with SRCs and other valued
leadership activities.
The current document has a rationale and brief
history of its development and several longer sections detailing
some specific actions that would assist communication and the
pursuit of joint projects between PASTA and government education
bodies working most directly with SRCs.
Go to Working
Guidelines for full copy of the current submission to
the NSW DET
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Overseas SRC Leadership Tours |
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for current year specific dates & variations AGM and all
PASTA meetings open to all. Contact the Secretary.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
last Saturday in February:
(PTC Leichhardt) & General Mtg
- Election of New Committee, Calendar,Working Conditions,
PD -
REGULAR PASTA
MEETINGS
(afternoons
for Professional Development topics as noted)
normally held on final Saturdays in:
March
- Professional Development plans & publications
May (June in ISRC years) - Issues for Advisers &
National Projects
July (August in ISRC years) - Leadership Tours &
Local Actions
October - SRC Curriculum & Resources
December - Forward Planning - Christmas Meeting &
Dinner
NSW DET Pupil
Well-Being Unit / PASTA meetings
January / April / July / September School
Holidays: (Ashfield)
ADVISER PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Late Term 1 or early Term 2: 'Fresh
Start' (PD Day) - PTC Liechhardt
(n.b. in 2004 this has been rescheduled for Saturday 18 September)
early August: NSW SRC State Conference - Vision Valley
Term 3 or Term 4: Resources Development PD Day
Specific audience PD Days arranged according
to interest, e.g.
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Non-government Schools /
Primary Schools / Selective Schools
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New Advisers / Teacher Trainees
/ School Leaders
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Workshop Facilitation Skills
/ SRCs & ITC / Civics & Citizenship
PLUS . . . PLUS . . .
All PASTA projects are professional development
opportunities.
The afternoons of all regular Committee meetings are used for
PD purposes and flexible enough to meet the expressed needs
of those who choose to attend.
Overseas SRC Leadership Tours are for Advisers
and Parents as well as for student leaders. The conferences,
leadership camps, host school visits and other activities experienced
on tour are adviser professional development of the highest
calibre.
Overseas SRC Leadership Tours
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Student and teacher / adviser
international delegates from various states will be representing
Australian secondary schools on the 7th PASTA Overseas SRC Leadership
Tour to the 2nd International Student Representative Conference
in Canada and other SRC events in North America in August 2004
We welcome new delegates from some schools
who follow in the footsteps of their predecessors from the Inaugural
Tour in 1998 or one or more of each successive year since.
We also welcome new schools to these tours and new members to
PASTA.
FOR DELEGATE NAMES AND AUSTRALIAN
SCHOOLS TO BE REPRESENTED BY THESE INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES
GO TO CURRENT OVERSEAS TOUR
PASTA and the schools and communities they represent congratulate
them on their successful applications and wish them well with
their fund-raising and pre-trip studies. The delegation 1st
Orientation weekend workshop on 10 / 11 April was very successful.
Help us further prepare them well. Send your ideas.
Tours are open to secondary students and teacher
/ advisers / consultants from any state or territory in Australia
and from non-government and government schools.
Go To 'SRC Leadership Tours'
page for more details on these tours or go directly to these
files:
Current OS SRC Tour News - 2003
History of Overseas SRC Leadership Tours
Student President
Mark Childs and Delegate Bronwyn Weir Reports on 2003 Tour
Student President Sami Brant Report on SRC Leadership
Tour - 2002
Student
President Lachlan Wallage Review of Leadership Tour - 2001
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The PASTA Newsletter is a regular feature of 'Connect', the
Australian magazine of student participation now in its 25th
year of publication under Editor Roger Holdsworth.
"PASTA - Food
4 Advisers"
A Members Only Publication posted to all financial members.
Contains materials not otherwise available on this site or through
'Connect'. For a sample copy, contact Secretary.
SRCA e-Group
An e-group communications service has been established for
teachers and advisers in the SRC and student activities field.
All states and territories are encouraged to make use of this
service to keep in touch, share ideas, ask questions with and
for your colleagues.
Contact the PASTA Secretary Ellen Sheerin and / or Subscribe:
SRCA-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
SRC & Adviser Professional
Development Related Websites
For Website Compilations of sites relevant to Advisers and
student leaders Go To: "Issues
For Advisers" page or contact the PASTA Secretary
SRCs and Curriculum in all
Key Learning Areas
Go To SRC Links to Curriculum for ideas on how SRCs etc can
support ALL Curriculum areas.
SRC - KLA Curriculum Linkages
plus all the information on the Curriculum
page
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Membership in PASTA means you / your school
/ your SRC or your business is taking on the responsibility
of supporting the promotion and development of active citizenship
education.
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Your membership helps SRC and other leadership
advisers to distribute and create resources, programs, networks,
professional development opportunities and leadership events.
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All members receive a subscription to 'Connect',
discounts on PASTA organised events, access to national
and international student council networks and resources
unavailable elsewhere in Australia and the very real opportunity
to be involved in the future of SRCs and citizenship education
and recognition now and in the future.
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For the mere cost of one night's dinner
at a medium priced restaurant, you can do and have all this
for a year. Concession rates available for student and pensioner
members.
Go To 'How To Join'
Page for details of membership categories and a form for applying
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| YOU TELL US!
Are you are a Teacher? Consultant? Departmental Adviser?
Student? Principal? Parent? Grandparent? Interested Citizen?
Whoever you are, you tell us what you think is needed in
this field.
Be credited. Share what
you know with us and the SRC world.
Be credible. Tell us what
you need first most.
Go To 'Issues for Advisers'
page for useful ideas
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
LIAISON, ISRC 2004 & OVERSEAS TOURS (for advisers and students):
Ken Page - President
2004
MEMBERSHIPS , OFFICIAL RECORDS, RESOURCES, WEBSITES:
Ellen Sheerin - Secretary
2004
PUBLICATIONS, RESOURCES, CURRICULUM, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
International Linkages & Projects & Website Content
Charles Kingston
- Vice President - 2004
and / or
Tony Gleeson - Vice President
- 2004
CSC (Community Service Certificate Awards Program):
Ralph Murray - Foundation
President of PASTA
WEBMASTER: Chris
O'Rourke
Go To 'How To Contact Us' Page
for details of all key PASTA volunteers
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