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• Coordinating for Success - VCE VM and VPC

  • When
    12 Feb 2026
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    09:00 - 15:00
  • Location
    Rendezvous Hotel - Melbourne
  • Spaces left
    43

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  Coordinating for Success - VCE VM and VPC

  Shelley Muir - Mentone Grammar

  
  

  Masterclass outline:

  The role of Coordinator is critical to the success of the VCE VM and VPC in your school. Aside from advocating to leadership and the wider community, the role is crucial in navigating your students to a successful certificate completion and access meaningful pathways beyond the school gate.  All the tasks involved can feel a bit overwhelming and daunting at times. Join Shelley as she shares the 'What, Why and When' on successful coordination.

  
  

  Who should attend?

  This one-day intensive masterclass is highly valuable for anyone coordinating the Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC) and the VCE Vocational Major, whether you are a new coordinator or are looking to streamline and improve your current practice.

  About your presenter:

  Shelley is an educator with 20 years’ experience in both government and independent sectors. She has established and led VCAL and VCE-VM programs in two schools and has worked with several independent schools to introduce vocational learning into their program offerings. Shelley was awarded the 2019 VCAA Teacher Achievement Award for Program Development.  As Head of Pathways and Careers at Mentone Grammar, Shelley is passionate about helping young people realise their potential, research opportunities and shape meaningful pathways. She is a teacher of all VCE-VM units, VCE Psychology, and VET.

  
  

  We look forward to seeing you there!

  
  

  Registration includes morning tea and lunch.

  You will receive a certificate of attendance post event.

  The program is subject to change without notice

  
  

  
  

  Who should attend?

  This one-day intensive masterclass is highly valuable for anyone coordinating the Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC) and the VCE Vocational Major, whether you are a new coordinator or are looking to streamline and improve your current practise.

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• VALA 2026 VCE VM and VPC Induction

  • When
    13 Feb 2026
  •  
    09:00 - 15:15
  • Location
    Rendezvous Hotel - Melbourne

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  VALA 2026 VCE VM and VPC Induction

  Friday February 13 – Rendezvous Hotel Melbourne

  Welcome to the wonderful world of Applied Learning!

  Conference Aims:

  Designed for educators, coordinators and school leaders this conference will cover all elements that make up a solid, quality VCE VM and VPC program and aims to:

  • To equip educators and leadership teams with the skills, knowledge and professional networks to design and deliver quality applied learning programs to (and with!) their students.
  • To increase knowledge, value, access and reputation of quality Applied Learning Programs in secondary schools and beyond.

   Who should attend:

  • Anybody working in or with Applied Learning!

   Program:

  (subject to change without notice)

  Plenary 9.00 - 10.30 - Keynote to be confirmed

  Session A 10.30 – 11.30am

  A1 PDS Projects - Maree Foster - Patterson River SC

  A2 Applied Learning through Enterprise – Bobbie Evans – St Joseph’s College Geelong

  A3 VCE VM & VPC - the Basics – VCAA Senior Secondary Reform Unit

  A4 Be More You: practical learning programs at Cire Community School - Jeremy Collings - CIRE Community School

  A5 Critical understandings underpinning teaching numeracy (and maths) in VCE VM and VPC - Dave Tout – Melbourne University and Multifangled

  A6 Engaging Students Through Project Based Learning in Special Education- Anne Marie Holmyard – Hume Valley School

  A7 Implementing the Pillars of Applied Learning – Christina Paizes -

  Session B 11.30 – 12.30pm

  B1 VCE VM & VPC Audits - VCAA Applied Learning Unit 

  B2 Applied Learning and the Importance of Powerskills -Cherie Osta & Geoff Bird – Lorne P-12 College

  B3 VPC in the VCE VM classroom – Maree Foster – Patterson River SC

  B4 Enhancing Student Readiness to Learn & Engagement: Strategies to Break Barriers – Jake Smith and Mitchell Wood - Advance College

  B5 Developing Assessments from The Numeracy Around Us - Tamara Zerafa - Harvester College

  B6 Group activities and strategies that help build student relationships - playmeo - Mark Collard

  B7 VCE VM in TAFE - Brendan O’Donahoo SW TAFE

  12.30 – 1.15 Lunch, displays and networking - Atriaum

  Session C 1.15 – 2.15pm

  C1 Keeping Students Engaged through SBATs - Jamie Gray & Haritini Nikolaou – Department of Education HeadStart

  C2 Cherie Osta & Geoff Bird – Lorne P-12 College

  C3 PDS projects for in and outside the classroom – Daniel Monigatti – Harvester School.

  C4 Working Community Program – Deb Arrowsmith – David Scott School & Natalie Purves, VALA

  C5 Navigating Numeracy – A teacher’s perspective on implementing the VCE VM Numeracy Study design – David Young Heathmont College

  C6 WRS - TBC

  C7 Vic LLENs (Local Learning and Employment Network) - Fiona Purcell - OELLEN

  Session D 2.15 – 3.15pm (

  D1 SWL and VDSS - VCAA VET Unit.

  D2 Literacy – Julieanne Spring – SEDA college

  D3 A multi school integrated project with an international flavour Amanda Vosper – Mirboo North SC and Brett Gay – Kurnai College

  D4 Ushpal Kullar - ECG College

  D5 AI in the Classroom – Natascha Dickinson – Gleneagles College

  D6 VPC projects and outcomes tracking – Seamus Curtain McGee – Bendigo Senior SC

  D7 World of Work – a year 10 program covering WRS unit 2 – Helen Campbell & Kristina Delaney – Sacred Heart College Kyneton

  We look forward to welcoming you in February .

  Helene and Natalie

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• VCE VM & VPC Numeracy - Engaging ALL students successfully in mathematics and numeracy.

  • When
    27 Feb 2026
  •  
    09:15 - 15:15
  • Location
    The Savoy Hotel on Little Collins Street

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  VCE VM & VPC Numeracy - Engaging ALL students successfully in mathematics and numeracy.

  Dave Tout - ACER & University of Melbourne

  
  

  "Practical applications that I can use immediately"

  "Having valuable discussions with like minded people who are struggling with the same issues affecting me, and having an expert give advice and guidance"
  

  
  

  Masterclass outline:

  In order to support and engage ALL students successfully in mathematics and numeracy learning, teaching needs to move beyond the textbook, worksheets and ‘chalk and talk’ to offer an alternative approach and a chance for all students to succeed in and enjoy mathematics teaching and learning. The information, discussions and hands-on activities in this workshop will look at the essential and crucial role that numeracy plays in the 21st century and will focus on activities that develop and practise a range of core mathematical skills through a wide range of approaches such as games, whole class and small group, cooperative work, as well as on enjoyment and having fun with mathematics. Many of the approaches also support and encourage the use and understanding of mathematical language, which is an important underpinning skill that needs to be explicitly addressed in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Activities also demonstrate how mathematics can be made relevant and more engaging through the use of real-life materials and contexts. 

  
  

  Who should attend?

  This one-day intensive masterclass is suitable for anyone teaching mathematics or numeracy in the middle and upper secondary years, especially in the Victorian Pathways Certificate, VCE Vocational Major, VCE Foundation maths students, alongside teachers and trainers working with disengaged youth and adult and VET learners.

  About your presenter:

  Dave Tout is an experienced adult and youth numeracy and maths educator who is particularly interested in making mathematics relevant, interesting and fun for all students, and is recognised as one of Australia's leading numeracy personnel with over 50 years' experience working across schools, TAFEs, community providers, universities, national education bodies and workplaces. He has worked at a state, national and international level in research, curriculum, assessment and professional development, has written many numeracy and maths teaching and PD resources and curriculum, including in Victoria for the VCE and the VPC. Dave currently holds positions at both ACER and the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne and is a numeracy and mathematics consultant.

  We look forward to seeing you there!

  
  

  Registration includes morning tea and lunch.

  You will receive a certificate of attendance post event.

  The program is subject to change without notice

  
  

  
  

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• Safari by the Sea

  • Start
    29 Oct 2026
  •  
    09:00
  • End
    30 Oct 2026
  •  
    15:00
  • Location
    Surf Coast - various locations

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  2026 VALA Safari by the Sea
  

  
  

  
  

  Applied Learning on the Move!

  
  

  At this stage it is still a mystery tour with the only certainty that it will involve visits to high calibre applied learning programs, networking, bowling, Lorne p-12, the Great Ocean Road and the company of passionate applied learning educators.

  With a strict limit of 25 participants (so you can get the most out of it)  this Safari is bound to reach capacity.

  Thursday Morning tea, Lunch, Afternoon tea, Dinner & Friday Morning tea and Lunch are included

  Accommodation is not included.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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