CURRICULUM COUNCIL

The PD registrations are now live on the Curriculum Council home page.

How to register for PD on 13 October

Scroll down to the bottom of the home page and you will see six boxes.  There is a box that says "13 October 2008 PD - Registrations now open" click on the "click here" tab you will be taken to the list of courses.

OUTDOOR EDUCATION AUSTRALIA

Papers and presentations from the Inaugural Outdoor Education Australia Risk Management Conference 2007.

• Preston Cline - Learning to Interact with Uncertainty
• Grant Davidson - Towards Understanding the Root Causes of Outdoor Education Incidents

OUTDOOR WA MEMBERSHIPS - ONE MONTH FREE!!

Outdoors WA is offering one months free. Sign up for membership in September and you get one month free. Your membership is current for all of 2009. Please contact Mel in the Outdoors WA office or phone 9248 6677.

OUTDOOR EDUCATION SUNDOWNER

Thank you to everyone who came to Little Creatures on August 20th for the second sundowner. Someone should've told Ralph it started at 5pm, not that we missed him, everyone was just wondering how his shoulder was!

As I had not met alot of members, it was fantastic to put faces to names, or email addresses. It was also great to see members bring partners, prac students and friends along. Like they say, the more the merrier.

Liam, next time please order a table INSIDE when it's 3 degrees outside, or make sure there are heaters at both ends of the table! (not just your end).

It was a great night, many of the world issues were half solved, and the next sundowner is already in the pipeline. Little Creatures is the venue of choice, so stay tuned for the date. Otherwise, Sunday night before the conference should be loads of fun camping. Make sure you are there.

Steve, I owe you a beer.

Mel

ASSOCIATION OF EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (AEE)

Bridges in Education: Inquiry, Knowledge, Action!
Many speakers are addressing current Outdoor Education facilitation issues
6-9 November, 2008
Vancouver, Washington, USA

For more information click here.

2008 WA STATE CONFERENCE

Monday December 8 has been confirmed for the State Conference to be held at Leonda (formally Tumblegum Farm). Outdoors WA invites ideas for the Outdoor Education stream.

NATIONAL OUTDOOR EDUCATION CONFERENCE

OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST

Outdoor Recreation Industry Council (ORIC) Conference
23 & 24 August, 2008
Novotel Hotel, Sydney Olympic Park
Sydney, NSW

The Fourth International Outdoor Education Research Conference
La Trobe University, Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, April 15-18, 2009

Call for papers

The Fourth International Outdoor Education Research Conference will be hosted by the School of Outdoor Education and Environment at La Trobe University and held at the Beechworth campus in north-eastern Victoria. The conference will build on the three previous conferences held at Buckinghamshire-Chilterns University (UK) in 2002, La Trobe University (Australia) in 2004, and the University of Central Lancashire (UK) in 2006, and continue to promote and foster an international community of researchers whose work critically examines outdoor education theory and practice.

The conference will be structured around paper or poster presentations and discussion forums. Special interest group meetings and excursions to local outdoor environments will also be offered.

OUTDOOR EDUCATION
STUDY OPPORTUNITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA

Outdoor Education courses in the School of Health Sciences aim to provide essential knowledge, practical skills and leadership qualities to individuals who want to teach in schools or outdoor education centres.

The program offers integrated study of theory and practical aspects to give you the necessary skills to evaluate needs, to plan appropriate activity programs and to instruct the skills in a variety of outdoor activities.

Outdoor Education at Notre Dame is for students who enjoy working with people, want to have a positive impact on people’s lives, wish to learn how to influence and change behaviour, and want to expand their current teaching.

Grad Certificate:

http://www.nd.edu.au/fremantle/courses/postgraduate/heathSci/gcOE.shtml

Grad Diploma:

http://www.nd.edu.au/fremantle/courses/postgraduate/heathSci/gdOE.shtml

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
5TH INTERNATIONAL ADVENTURE THERAPY CONFERENCE, UK

Dates: December 8-12, 2008
Location: Sydney at University of Technology

Event: A professional gathering to explore the theme ‘The Identity of Experience – Challenges for Experiential Learning’

Keynote Speakers for the conference will be David Boud (University of Technology Sydney Australia) and Tara Fenwick (University of British Columbia Canada). See below for further details. Our conference theme—The Identity of Experience—focuses on current and future challenges for experiential learning. These challenges include:
1. the challenge of integration
2. the challenge of difference
3. the challenge of research investigation
4. the challenge of application

More information on the keynote speakers and the conference program www.education.uts.edu.au/icel/index.html

Early Bird Registration is now open for delegates
Register now: <www.education.uts.edu.au/icel/register.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING

The updated calendar of professional development and training opportunities is available. Let us know your PD needs and we will provide the program development and training.

AN HONOURS THESIS RESEARCH REQUEST

A Social Work student from Flinders University (Adelaide) is researching the treatment and management of problem behaviours in adolescent females on wilderness adventure therapy based programs. It is anticipated this research will add to the limited body of knowledge around the frequency and type of female adolescent problem behaviours on wilderness adventure therapy programs.  This information will help inform future practice and program planning in the field of wilderness adventure therapy, in addition to highlighting areas for future research.

Are you interested in contributing (vie a questionnaire or interview)? Do you have any further questions? Please contact Bethany Walker via email walk0204@flinders.edu.au

BY SHAWN BROGDEN

Over the last few months you have reviewed Shawn’s thoughts on a few items of gear he uses in the outdoors. Now is your chance to have a go. Please email your gear review for your favourite item of Outdoor Education gear to outdoornews@scotch.wa.edu.au  Author of the gear review chosen to be published in the next Outdoor Education Newsletter will receive a bottle of Brookwood Estate, Margaret River Wine valued at $30 for your efforts.

BY JASON ZAURS

River Rescue 3rd Edition – A Manual for Whitewater Safety
Les Bechdel & Slim Ray, 1997

In keeping with the paddling theme and with the rain that has seemed to come and then gone, it is timely to review an excellent resource on the subject of river rescue. The Avon Descent this year had records broken and many boats broken too! The Murray River has had plenty of water and a few of my colleagues paddled with much precision to run the Lower Murray at 3.2m. Many Outdoor Education teachers like to hold canoeing or kayaking expeditions as pert of their programmes but do you know what to do when things go wrong? Read more ...

JOURNEYS

Please share any funny stories, what to do (or not to do) when out and about. Any photos you would like to share, flooded tents, extreme cookup, loaded cars, or just people having fun.

CONUNDRUMS

MAN IN A FIELD

A man lies dead in a field next to a rock. There are no tracks in or out of the field and the man has no markings on his body. How did he get there and how did he die?

He is Superman so he flew there, the rock is Kryptonite which killed him.

To view more click here...

GRANTS TOOLS

Be open to what goes into a journal e.g. talking, drawing, poems

Some examples of scaffolding:

§  Describe what happened
§  What did you learn about yourself, others, the group, the environment?
§  How can you use this experience?
§  List 3 things that you learned today – what did you know now that you didn’t know before?
§  3 things that my friend (could be an item of equipment) learned today
§  What do you think you will remember or retain in knowledge, skills, attitudes or feelings as a result of this experience

Model journal writing for your group.

Coming Soon.... real soon...

WA Week 20-26 October 2008

WA Week was re-launched by Celebrate WA in October 2007 to provide Western Australians from all regions and sectors with an opportunity to celebrate Western Australian's unique history, heritage and development and applaid individual and collective achievement and contribution.

The October date was selected to include the anniversary of the State's Proclamation Day on 21 October 1890, which marked the transition of Western Australia from a colony under British rule to self-government.

WA Week Objectives

• Foster community pride, confidence, inclusiveness and identify
• Develop rewarding and enduring partnerships between all sectors
• Highlight all aspects of Western Australia's achievements and potential
• Promote the State's unique history, heritage and culture
• Recognise achievement and contribution

Further information on the above, please contact

Ralph Gurr
Executive Officer
executiveofficer@outdoorswa.org

Melanie Attwood
Administration Assistant
office@outdoorwa.org

PO Box 414 Greenwood WA 6924
Ph: 08 9248 6677
Fax: 08 9248 5799