From the President of EBE NSW - Joe Alvaro -31 May 2021

 Term 1 EBE NSW Professional Development Courses   Teaching the Preliminary course (Year 11) in Economics or Legal Studiesfor the first time? – 9 March 2021   Beginning Year 11 Economics and Legal Studies teachers and Year 11Economics and Legal Studies  teachers needing a refresher course,gathered at the Professional Teachers Council NSW Conference Centre atAuburn in Sydney to complete the “Teaching the Preliminary course (Year11) in  Economics or Legal Studies for the first time?” professionaldevelopment course on 9 March 2021. Thank you to Conference Convener,EBE NSW Director Nicholas Ward for organising the conference. Thankyou to EBE NSW Director Nicholas Ward who presented the Economicssession and EBE NSW Director Bernadette Henry and Legal Studiesteacher Kenson Low who presented the Legal Studies session.

The “Teaching the HSC course (Year 12) in Economics or Legal Studies forthe first time?” professional development course will be held on 24 August2021.   Teaching the Preliminary course (Year 11) in Business Studies for the firsttime? – 12 March 2021

Beginning Year 11 Business Studies  teachers and Year 11 Business Studies 

teachers needing a refresher course, gathered at the Professional TeachersCouncil NSW Conference Centre at Auburn in Sydney to complete the“Teaching the Preliminary course (Year 11) in  Business  Studies for the firsttime?” professional development course on 12 March 2021. Thank you toConference Convenor, EBE NSW Director Roset Khair,  for organising theconference. Thank you also to all our session presenters:  Andrew Athavle(EBE NSW Director), Yousef Alkarnaz (The PD Department), CherylBrennan (EBE NSW Vice – President) and Roset Khair (EBE NSWDirector).

The “Teaching the HSC Course (Year 12) in Business Studies for the firsttime?” professional development course will be held on 10 September 2021.

Teaching the Preliminary course (Year 11) in Business Studies for the first time? – 12March 2021

Teaching Commerce for the first time? – 26 March 2021

Beginning Commerce  teachers and Commerce   teachers needing arefresher course, gathered at the Professional Teachers Council NSWConference Centre at Auburn in Sydney to complete the “TeachingCommerce  for the first time?” professional development course on 26March 2021. Thank you to Conference Convenors, EBE NSW DirectorsRoset Khair and Carolyn Muir for organising the conference. Thank youalso to presenters:   Joe Alvaro (EBE NSW President) ,  Carolyn Muir (EBE

NSW Director), Roset Khair (EBE NSW Director) , Christina You ( ReserveBank of Australia) and Gigi Lovicu (Reserve Bank of Australia).   Congratulations to Commerce Teacher  Patrick Considine from LumenChristi Catholic College who was awarded an EBE NSW Professor MikeHorsley Beginning Teachers Rural Professional Learning Grant to attendthe “Teaching Commerce for the first time?” conference.

Patrick Considine (right) with EBE NSW President Joe Alvaro (left)

Teaching Commerce for the first time? – 26 March 2021

Teaching Commerce for the first time? – 26 March 2021

Save the date – 2021 EBE NSW Annual Conference – Friday 23July 2021

  The 2021 EBE NSW Annual Conference, which is the  peak conference forteachers of Economics, Business Studies, Legal Studies and Commerceteachers in NSW and in our Australian International Schools overseas, willbe held on Friday 23 July 2021 at the UTS Business School, Dr Chau ChakWing Building 8 from 8am – 4pm. The keynote speakers will be theGovernor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Philip Lowe and  Rami Ykmour,Founder of the family friendly restaurant franchise, Rashays. There willalso be workshops to attend focused on Economics, Business Studies, LegalStudies, Commerce and leadership.   Exhibitor displays will enable conference delegates to get up to date with allthe latest teaching and learning resources related to  Economics, BusinessStudies, Legal Studies and Commerce.            Rural professional learning grants will be available for EBE NSW members- be sure to put in your application.

Networking opportunities will be available enabling you to interact withEconomics, Business Studies, Legal Studies and Commerce teachers fromall over NSW.

Registrations will be opening soon.

Order your 2021 EBE NSW trial HSC examinations

The order form for the 2021 EBE NSW trial HSC examinations is availableon the EBE NSW website. Past papers are also available. EBE NSWmembers receive member discounts.

2021 Business Educators Australasia (BEA) Plan Your OwnEnterprise Competition (PYOE)

Be sure to enable your Commerce and Business Studies students to enterthe 2021 BEA PYOE Competition. More information, including a sampleunit of work and a sample assessment task, is available on the EBE NSWwebsite.

EBE NSW writes to NESA about the NESA 2020 HSC Economics,Business Studies and Legal Studies Examinations

Thank you to members who provided feedback about the NESA  2020 HSCEconomics, Business Studies and Legal Studies examinations. EBE NSWwrote a letter to NESA based on this feedback.

See the letter here: Letter

See NESA’s response here: Response   EBE NSW writes to NESA about unnecessary dash points in theHuman Rights and Family topics in the Legal studies Syllabus   EBE NSW has written to NESA about the unnecessary dash point in theHuman Rights topic in the Legal Studies Syllabus - 2. Promoting andenforcing human rights – the roles of:

- courts, tribunals and independent - statutory authorities   See the letter here: Letter   We are pleased to announce that the unnecessary syllabus dot pointreferred to above has now been removed in the online version of the LegalStudies Syllabus (page 21):   legal-studies-stage-6-syllabus-2009 (6).pdf   EBE NSW also wrote to NESA about another unnecessary dash point in theFamily topic in the Legal Studies Syllabus – 2. Responses to problems infamily relationships – the roles of:   - courts and dispute resolution - methods   See the letter here: Letter   NESA has responded saying that the issue raised will be reviewed after thecurrent cohort of students have completed the HSC course.  

The problems raised above have potential to  cause difficulties for a numberof stakeholders, including Legal Studies teachers (especially beginningteachers and teachers teaching out of field) , Legal Studies students whouse the syllabus to organise their notes, Legal Studies method lecturers andtutors at our universities , Legal Studies student teachers and Legal Studiestextbook writers. EBE NSW believes these are important matters that areworthy to be raised to ensure quality teaching and learning in our LegalStudies classrooms in NSW and overseas in Australian InternationalSchools.    EBE NSW unable to deliver NESA accredited PD this year   The NESA website states that “completing professional development (PD)helps teachers keep up to date with relevant content, skills and pedagogyand supports their professional growth”. Unfortunately memberscompleting EBE NSW PD  courses this year  are not being able to registerhours completed as “NESA Accredited PD” as they have been able to do inthe past as a result of the Professional Teachers Council NSW (PTC NSW) losing its status as an accredited provider. On 21 May 2021, the CEO of PTCNSW David Browne wrote to members saying “regrettably, based on recentNESA meetings it appears that no decision to change the current interimsituation will be made by the end of 2021”.   If you are not happy with this situation, PTC NSW is asking teachers towrite directly to NESA CEO, Mr Paul Martin and NESA Initial TeacherEducation and Accreditation, Mr John Healey NESA Director.   A major concern is the financial impact this decision has had on thesustainability of professional teacher associations across NSW and thedevastating impact on the provision of quality accredited professionallearning.

Letters should highlight the following points: -

the importance, relevance and value of association professionallearning across all sectorsthat association work is profit for purpose across all sectors andsystems - a strengthsignificant financial impact due to the lack of NESA accreditation forour coursesthe perception by members of the importance of NESA accreditationof professional learning

PTC NSW and its members be reconsidered an Authorised Providerbased on the long history of ensuring all PL meets all accreditationrequirements across the priority areas as outlined in the new policy foraccreditation.

Emails can be addressed to:

brooke.lawson@nesa.nsw.edu.au Brooke Lawson Executive Assistant to the NESA CEO

john.healey@nesa.nsw.edu.au      John Healey Director Initial Teacher Education & Accreditation   EBE NSW finds the whole situation unacceptable as our members make theeffort to increase student learning outcomes in Economics, BusinessStudies, Legal Studies and Commerce classrooms  by completing ourcourses ( sometimes  after school in their own time)  but are then not ableto register the hours of learning as “NESA Accreditated PD”.

ACARA Australian Curriculum Review - HASS

The Australian Curriculum for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)is being reviewed. The draft is out now. EBE NSW through our nationalsubject association, Business Educators Australasia, is being consultedabout the draft curriculum and we have been attending consultationmeetings with ACARA. Members are encouraged to read the draft HASScurriculum and complete the survey.

https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/consultation/humanities-and-social-sciences/

Year 10 subject selection evening coming up?

Consider using the following resources to uniform Year 10  students aboutthe study of Economics as Year 10 students think about which subjects tostudy in Year 11 next year:

* Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Online Talk – Introduction toEconomics An RBA economist will provide an introduction to the economy, the role ofthe RBA, and the benefits of studying economics.

Various dates availableFreehttps://www.rba.gov.au/education/book-a-talk/

* Video – Economics – Understand the world around you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOU-DAVch0

* Video – What is Economics? https://www.rba.gov.au/education/explore-economics/study-and-careers/   * Video – Why study Economics? https://www.rba.gov.au/education/explore-economics/study-and-careers/

Get involved in with the development of the 2022 NESA Economics, Business Studies and Legal Studies examinations

Applications for the  2022 Economics Chief Examiner and the 2022 Business Studies Chief Examiner are  now open, as well as applications forthe 2022 NESA Economics, Business Studies and Legal Studiesexamination committee members and assessors.   More information:https://www.educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/about/who-we-are/jobs/hsc-exam-development

Launch of The Court Education Project   I attended the launch of The Court Education Project Report  on Friday 21May 2022 at Level 22 Chambers, Martin Place. The Court EducationProject is an initiative of  Jackie Charles, a clerk of chambers and legaleducator working in Australia and the recipient of the Northern DistrictsEducation Centre (Sydney) Churchill Fellowship 2019. Some members mayrecall working with Jackie during their court excursions when she was onstaff at the Rule of Law Institute of Australia. Jackie also facilitated a

number of the EBE NSW Law Day Out for Legal Studies and CommerceTeachers professional development events.

Jackie’s Churchill Fellowship project researched best practice in the designand delivery of court education for school students. Her findings will beused to build a best practice guide for Australian court educators which willbe followed by a national conference to foster sharing, innovation andcollaboration.

Jackie has conducted important research in an area that has not receivedmuch attention in Australia.

I encourage members to read the report which can be found on the CourtEducation Project website:

https://courteducation.com.au/court-education-report/

Watch the launch of The Court Education Project here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hE6ZdfbtPg

Book for sale (at a discount for EBE NSW members) – “Collierfor Miranda – The 1999 Labor Campaign” by Barry Collier

Barry Collier was a secondary school Economics teacher and some peoplemay remember teaching or learning from Economics textbooks he wrote.He later became a  NSW Member of Parliament. Barry has written “Collierfor Miranda – The 1999 Labor Campaign” and is selling the book at adiscount for EBE NSW members.

See flyer: Click here

Attention EBE NSW rural members – what are your professionallearning needs?

EBE NSW has delivered many PD courses to teachers in rural areas  overthe years. If you would like a course delivered here in Sydney repeated in arural area where you teach or have other professional learning needs,please email EBE NSW.

Twitter

EBE NSW has a Twitter account. Be sure to follow EBE NSW on Twitter tokeep up with all the latest news with regards to the teaching and learning ofEconomics, Business Studies, Legal Studies and Commerce and tocommunicate with and share information with other teachers.

EBE NSW Helpdesk

As always EBE NSW Directors are available to members for advice andassistance (helpdesk@ ebe.nsw.edu.au) in relation to the teaching andlearning of Business Studies, Commerce, Economics and Legal Studies.

Please forward "From the President of EBE NSW – 31 May 2021" to Economics,Business Studies, Legal Studies and Commerce teachers in your HSIE/SocialSciences Department if you are a Head of Department. 

I look forward to seeing you at the 2021 EBE NSW Annual Conference

Regards,

Joe Alvaro

Looking back

1 May 1974 – Australian publisher and media magnate Sir Frank Packerdies aged 67. 1 May 2011 - US President Barack Obama informs the world about thedeath of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in a raid on his home in thePakistani city of Abbottabad. 3 May 1961 – Australian Parliament voted 57-39 to deny Aborigines theright to vote. 3 May 1979 - Margaret Thatcher, 53 wins her first election, becoming thefirst female prime minister in Europe. She led Britain for 11 years. 3 May 1999 - An illegal heroin injecting room opens in Sydney's KingsCross. This will lead to laws allowing a heroin injecting room. 14 May 1984 - Australian $1 coins went into circulation. 18 May 2001 - BHP shareholders vote to merge with London based minerBilliton, in the biggest amalgamation in Australian corporate history. 30 May 1928 - Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate was first produced in

Tasmania. 31 May 1994 – Ivan Milat, 49, is charged with the murder of sevenbackpackers, whose bodies were found in the Belanglo State Forest south-west of Sydney. In 1996 Ivan Milat was sentenced to life in jail.

Did you know?

Sanitarium Health Food Company (Weet-Bix etc.) is 100% owned by theSeventh Day Adventist Church.

Quick statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016Census

Educational institutions were attended by 30.8% of people in Australia. Ofthese, 26.7% were in primary school, 20.1% in secondary school and 22.0%in a tertiary or technical institution.

 Attitude to money “It’s best when earned as the outcome of doing what you are passionateabout and do well.” Steve Vamos (The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November 2011).

Advice to first year out teachers “If I had one piece of advice to first years it would be to not be too hard onyourself. Always put in 110 per cent, be willing to ask questions and takeadvice.” - Rebecca Tampion (“Australian Teacher Magazine” August 2010)   Quote "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first foursharpening the axe."

Abraham Lincoln

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