The Geography & History Teachers Association NT (GHTANT) is sponsoring She Maps to deliver its Drone Day Teaser session for teachers interested in the use of drones in a school setting. Further details on the specifics of the program are to come, but the date and times are locked in. GHTANT is pleased to offer this workshop for free to members of a teaching association affiliated with the Professional Teachers Association NT (PTANT). The non-member fee is $30.00. Participants are capped at 30, so book soon to secure your spot! Morning tea available afterwards. 

GHTANT and ETANT continue their tradition of collaboration on professional learning for teachers of English and the humanities.  FREE FOR GHTANT OR ETANT MEMBERS MEMBER'S GUEST - a member can bring one colleague for free. This ticket must be ordered simultaneously with the member ticket.  $30.00 FOR NON-MEMBERS (Why not consider joining? GHTANT can be joined on this website by clicking the GHTANT logo at the top and navigating to memberships, with ETANT memberships available here. FREE HALF-DAY FOR CLASSROOM DRONE ESSENTIALS WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS A more readable program should have been emailed to you by your association, but information on the sessions is below, with a schedule for the day following. IF YOU ARE ATTENDING THE SIMULTANEOUS "SHE MAPS CLASSROOM DRONE ESSENTIAL" WORKSHOPS you are able to choose two sessions in the morning or afternoon if you wish to combine that event with this one.  You will choose your sessions at registration.  Session information SESSION ONE Option 1 Title:                   Approaches to Online Learning Presenter:         Bruce Cameron Location:            E17 Description:       COVID19 forced teachers into considering teaching by distance. What many of us discovered is that some principles of distance education can assist with student engagement and practice even in the face-to-face environment. Working with Stage 2 English at both Darwin High School and NTSDE allowed me to use many of my video lessons as a supplement for absent or disengaged classroom learners. Creating your own video content for your class is easy to do with just a few tools and a little courage. Let me show you how. Option 2 Title:                   Meet the author              Presenter:         Sean Guy Location:            E16 Description:      Sean Guy is an Australian author and screenwriter. He has several novels published across a series of genres, and is also known for his work on short sketch films. Alongside the local amateur production company “Big Dog Salad” Sean has written and produced over a dozen comedic shorts, including one where two salesmen discuss the validity of a new type of calendar, where weekends are sold separately. He is also currently working on a feature film script about the Bombing of Darwin, for local filmmakers SD Productions. Option 3 Title:                   A teaching toolbox for humanising confronting and controversial topics      Presenter:         Amanda Tully and Raine Caldwell Location:            E23 Description: The English and Humanities classrooms are places where students engage with confronting and controversial topics. Join Amanda and Raine to look at how to create a safe and supportive environment to promote student learning. SESSION TWO Option 1 Title:                   Just telling stories …     Presenter:         Barry Jonsberg Location:            E11 Description: All about stories: take away a video for classroom use on story elements like conflict, description, abstract versus concrete words, show, don’t tell. But really Barry Jonsberg just wants to tell you stories about stories … Option 2 Title:                   Competitions and the Curriculum Presenter:         Nelly Labiche and Charleen Conroy Location:            E23 Description: This workshop will bust the myth that competitions are additional work. There are lots of ways that both English and Humanities teachers across the primary to senior years can incorporate competitions in their practice to benefit both themselves and students No option 3   SESSION THREE Option 1 Title:                   Teaching the Holocaust through text: Once by Morris Gleitzam            Presenter:         Steve Hawkins Location:            E17 Description: Novel studies don’t always need to be about structures and features. Teachers can choose texts with challenging but important themes to help students better understand major global issues and events. In this session, teachers will explore how ‘Once’ by Morris Gleitzman is used to help middle school aged students to learn about the events of the Holocaust. The focus of the session will be adaptable to other texts on big themes that teachers may want to use. Option 2 Title:                   Who are our heroes? Presenter:         Cody Clifford, Nicole Everett, John Oakman and Raine Caldwell Location:            E16 Description: Who are our heroes? What makes them heroic? Join Cody and Raine to look at the archetypes of the hero and the hero’s journey. Nicole will look at how she uses heroes to introduce students to critical perspectives. Finally, John will look a modern day hero.  Option 3 Title:                   Making it Stick – Retention and Retrieval Techniques Presenter:         Anna Hind Location:            E23 Description:       Students forget what we teach them. One strategy which aims to reduce this 'forgetting' is retrieval practice: a set of strategies and classroom activities designed to encourage knowledge retention in our students. This workshop explains the theory and practical application of retrieval practice as it can be applied to any subject at any age level. Teachers will be provided with a range of resources and examples, specific to English and Humanities, for use in their own classrooms.   SESSION FOUR Title:                   Pixar English - using short films to explore text structures and features Presenter:         Steve Hawkins Location:            E17 Description: If your students are anything like mine, they have the attention span of gnats. I've found using Pixar short films a fantastic way of introducing exploring a range of language and structure features, such as narrative arcs, the features of short stories and film techniques. This workshop will share some of these ideas, suitable for middle years or lower ability senior years students.   Title:                   Exploring visual texts – The Rabbits Presenter:         Rachel Fegan Location:            E16 Description: Rachel will use The Rabbits to present a series of interactive activities designed to engage students with visual texts.   Title:                   Civics and Citizenship  Presenter:         Karen Parker Location:            E23 Description: In this session, Karen Parker from the NT Electoral Commission will discuss strategies and activities that can be used in middle school and senior school classes to improve student knowledge of the systems and structures of our political systems.

GHTANT has organised a free private tour of the Fannie Bay Gaol for our members. After the tour, you will be welcome to stay on for dinner at the Darwin Trailer Boat Club. GHTANT will be able to shout a round of drinks to see off a busy Term 3! Please feel free to bring along a colleague or two who may be interested!

This session will provide an overview of PTANT's services for the remainder of 2020, with a specific focus on new initiatives including: TidyHQ as an association portal Microsoft365 account for your association ERT funding for associations We woudl appreciate it if one or two (or three) members of your association could attend this session, or the alternate session held on August 4.  We recommend your treasurer attend, as well as whomever in your committee is responsible for membership management.

This session will provide an overview of PTANT's services for the remainder of 2020, with a specific focus on new initiatives including: TidyHQ as an association portal Microsoft365 account for your association ERT funding for associations We woudl appreciate it if one or two (or three) members of your association could attend this session, or the alternate session held on August 12.  We recommend your treasurer attend, as well as whomever in your committee is responsible for membership management.

Following on from our successful conference in 2018, GHTANT and ETANT are proud to present our second Central Australia Conference for Humanities and English Teachers! If you are a member of GHTANT or ETANT, you can attend this event for free. If you are not a member, please visit http://www.ghtant.org.au or https://www.aate.org.au/etant to join. Note that GHTANT has institutional members, so check with your school to see if you are eligible to attend through your school's membership. Non-member prices are $40.00, which includes morning tea and lunch. Attendees are welcome to join us for dinner on Saturday evening. We will provide appetizers, but meals and drinks will be paid by those attending.  Our Special Guest is Dr Rosalie Triolo, who is Senior Lecturer for History Education at Monash University. Rosalie has presented at other GHTANT workshops and at previous Festivals of Teaching, so we are very happy to have her share her experiences with our central Australian teachers.  Click here for our conference program Travel support: GHTANT can provide limited travel funding (up to $300) for fuel or accommodation expenses for those who may like to travel in. We would greatly appreciate it if you could try to reduce your costs by carpooling as our travel funding is quite tight. Email steve.hawkins@ntschools.net to inquire about this. 

GHTANT has arranged an end-of-year function for members for a private tour and presentation of the Sidney Nolan exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Entry is free for members, and members are invited to bring a colleague who may not be a GHTANT member. Nibbles provided.  This event will be very helpful for exploring the 2020 National History Challenge topic relating to Contested Histories. We will provide resources on how you can embed this exhibition into your teaching and learning program.  From the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory webiste: Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly series Sidney Nolan’s 1946-47 paintings depicting the 19th century bush ranger Ned Kelly are among the most significant Australian paintings of the 20th century.  Nolan’s Ned Kelly series is a distillation of a complex, layered story set in the Victorian landscape and centred around a nineteenth-century bushranger and his gang who were on the run from the police. Landscape is a key element in the paintings—as Nolan said, ‘it began in the landscape and ended in the landscape’. The series also depends upon a loosely threaded but vital dramatic human narrative that has its catalyst with Constable Fitzpatrick and Kate Kelly 1946 in the domestic arena of the Kelly family home where a fracas occurs, and ends with The trial 1947, in a Melbourne courtroom where Ned Kelly is sentenced to death. The marriage of a feeling for the environment and human drama imbues these paintings with meaning and poetic resonance. While the legendary aspect is informed by social history, some of the paintings are embellished by Nolan’s lively imagination.

After the success of our GHTANT/ETANT miniconference events in Darwin and Alice Springs in 2018, we have teamed up again to provide an event for teachers on Saturday April 6 2019. GHTANT members and other humanities teachers are very welcome to attend! In 2019 our Darwin event attracted over 70 teachers and we hope for a strong turnout again this year. GHTANT will be running four workshops, with ETANT running workshops in addition to sessions with local and visiting authors. GHTANT members are very welcome to attend any of the sessions (we know cross-discipline teaching is common!) GHTANT sessions are: 1) Bringing HASS to Life: participants will explore a range of activities that can better engage students, and will walk away with ideas they can embed in their own classes to inspire and motivate students to learn about the humanities. (Charleen Conroy, Dripstone MS) 2) Historical Sources Escape Room: okay, not technically an "escape room" but an activity where students analyse sources to unlock a mystery box! This workshop will guide teachers on how they can successfully deliver an engaging activity on sources! (Steve Hawkins, CSC) 3) Using Thinglink: Thinglink is an online tool that allows for the easy annotation of images and films. It is a great way to involve technology in annotating maps or historical sources, and can easily be applied in English classes, too. Please bring a device! (Steve Hawkins, CSC) 4) Inquiry-based learning - making it work:  this session will provide a range of useful tips and strategies to create more successful inquiry-based learning activities in HASS classes. Inquiries can be poorly delivered, and this workshop will provide useful advice to making inquiry-based learning relevant and engaging. (Raine Caldwell, CSC) ENTANT information below!! FREE FOR MEMBERS $30.00 for non-members (join here!) $20.00 for pre-service teachers (or joing here for free!)     PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY   VISITING WRITER Scot Gardner   Other Presenters will include: Barry Jonsberg (NT writer) Elizabeth Mountford (improving literacy) Kate Dyer (Bell Shakespeare workshops) Dani Hazelton (Effective Questioning) Plus many more   CHOOSE THE WORKSHOPS YOU WANT TO ATTEND ALL SESSIONS APPROXIMATELY 50 MINUTES AND THERE WILL BE AT LEAST TWELVE WORKSHOPS ON OFFER (for specific details of the workshops please refer to the upcoming Conference Program)   ****BECOME A MEMBER NOW AND SAVE**** CONFERENCE FEES YOUR FEES INCLUDE       Free for Members       Registration/Workshop Resources                $30.00 Non-members                  Morning tea / Lunch / Refreshments                   $20.00 Students                                 Participation Certificate      Join ETANT online at  www.aate.org.au/etant   To register please email john.oakman@ntschools.net   There are some funds available to assist out of Darwin teachers with the cost of travel and accommodation   FOR ALL MEMBERSHIP / REGISTRATION ENQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT Dani Hazelton or John Oakman Casuarina Senior College E:danielle.hazelton@nt.gov.au E:john.oakman@ntschools.net  

GHTANT is pleased to provide an informal networking opportunity for new and experienced Middle Years humanities teachers. This event will be light on with formal presentations, but rather a forum to share resources and ideas, ask questions and establish a network among other middle years humanities teachers.  Charleen Conroy from Dripstone MIddle School and Nelly Labiche from Darwin MIddle School will be hosting the event, so come along and share your ideas!

GHTANT is pleased to offer an opportunity for Stage 2 humanities teachers who are interested in learning more about using Stage 2 Community Studies B (Humanities) to support their students in achieving success.  The event is designed to be fairly friendly and informal with an emphasis on building connections and a support network. Stage 1 teachers are equally welcome to come along, as are any other interested teachers keen to hear about flexible options for traditional NTCET humanities subjects. Steve Hawkins from Casuarina Senior College will be facilitating the workshop, which will be held in the Casuarina Senior College library. The event is free for members and non-members of GHTANT. Non-members are strongly encouraged to join so we can create an active, supporting professional association for humanities teachers.  Travel funding is not available for regional and remote teachers, but we will have Skype access available. 

GHTANT is pleased to offer an opportunity for Stage 2 Geography to get together to share ideas, discuss issues and ask and answer questions of experienced subject teachers. You may like to bring along Learning & Assessment Plans and task sheets for discussion. Both experienced and new teachers are strongly encouraged to come along. The event is designed to be fairly friendly and informal with an emphasis on building connections and a support network. Stage 1 teachers are equally welcome to come along, as are any other interested teachers keen to hear about Geography. Chris Cox from NTSDE will host the event, with the venue to be advised. We will contact you with venue information shortly.  The event is free for members and non-members of GHTANT. Non-members are strongly encouraged to join so we can create an active, supporting professional association for humanities teachers.  Travel funding is not available for regional and remote teachers, but we will have Skype access available. 

GHTANT is pleased to offer an opportunity for Stage 2 Legal Studies to get together to share ideas, discuss issues and ask and answer questions of experienced subject teachers. You may like to bring along Learning & Assessment Plans and task sheets for discussion. Both experienced and new teachers are strongly encouraged to come along. The event is designed to be fairly friendly and informal with an emphasis on building connections and a support network. Stage 1 teachers are equally welcome to come along, as are any other interested teachers keen to hear about Legal Studies. Jacob Fajzullin from Casuarina Senior College will be facilitating the workshop, which will be held in the Casuarina Senior College library. The event is free for members and non-members of GHTANT. Non-members are strongly encouraged to join so we can create an active, supporting professional association for humanities teachers.  Travel funding is not available for regional and remote teachers, but we will have Skype access available.