Professional Learning 2025

Professional Learning 2025

The Virtual War Memorial Australia (VWMA) provides Professional Learning sessions for teachers to assist with the delivery of Australian Military History.

Sessions can cover all or some of the following tailored to the needs of your teachers:

  • Discover the varied range of teaching resources on the VWMA
  • How serviceperson biographies align with the Australian Curriculum and SACE in an engaging and challenging way
  • Modifying/adapting serviceperson biographies to meet the diverse learning needs of your students
  • How serviceperson biographies are AI ‘proof’ (offering an authentic task that develops students’ research and literacy skills)
  • Locating, reading and interpreting service records and unit diaries
  • Navigating the Australian War Memorial and using Trove as a historical source, plus more
  • Hints and tips for the South Australian Premier’s ANZAC Spirit School Prize
  • Uploading students’ research and biographies to the Virtual War Memorial Australia, which after moderation, could become a permanent part of the public record

Contact us to book a session appropriate to the needs of your teachers and their students. Timing is flexible and can take place during or after school hours. We can adjust the timing to suit faculty staff meetings or professional development days.

Sessions can be provided in person for Adelaide schools and via video conferencing for regional and rural schools. For South Australian schools call Kate Johnson 0419 620 297 or email [email protected]. Interstate schools please contact [email protected]


Online Professional Learning 2025:

Schools Program Professional Learning

ONLINE VIA Zoom (link to be sent after registration)
NO COST TO ATTEND

This 60-minute online workshop (Zoom) will outline the VWMA Schools Program Biography Task

The Schools Program Biography Task is an authentic learning opportunity for your students where they research and complete a biography for a WW1 or WW2 serviceperson with their work published on the VWMA.

The task is suitable for Year 9 and 10 History, Year 9 English, and the South Australian Certificate of Education subjects - Research Project/AIF, Integrated Learning and Community Connections.

Year 9 and 10 students' work can also be entered into the South Australian Premier's ANZAC Spirit School Prize - find out how the VWMA offers support to schools entering students to the Prize.

This training session will outline the resources available to complete the biography, and how the VWMA provides support to you and your students every step of the way.

If the session times below are not convenient, please contact us to arrange a more suitable time [email protected]

Term 1: Thursday 20 February, 4:00 – 5:00pm – to register click here

Term 2: Thursday 15 May, 4:00 - 5:00pm - to register click here

Term 3: Thursday 7 August, 4:00 - 5:00pm - to register click here

Term 4 - Thursday 30 October, 4:00 - 5:00pm to register click here


Reading Service Records Professional Learning

ONLINE VIA MS TEAMS (link to be sent after registration)
NO COST TO ATTEND

This 60-minute online workshop (MS Teams) covers how to read WW1 and WW2 Service Records, a core source for the Biography Task

  • Find out how the records were compiled
  • Why there are pages with repeated information
  • What information to look for in the records
  • How to decipher the information

If the session times below are not convenient, please contact us to arrange a more suitable time [email protected]

Term 1: Thursday 20 March, 26th June, 4:00 - 5:00pm - to register click here

Term 2: Thursday 26 June, 4:00 - 5:00pm - to register click here

Term 3: Thursday 28 August, 4:00 - 5:00pm - to register, click here

Term 4: Thursday 20 November, 4:00 - 5:00pm - to register click here


Premier's ANZAC Spirit School Prize Workshop - students and teachers

Wednesday 9 July 2025: 9:00am – 12:30pm

Free school holiday half-day intensive workshop to complete the Premier's Anzac Spirit School Prize. Virtual War Memorial staff and historians will be available to provide assistance.

Students and teachers welcome.

BYO own device. Located at Memorial Hall, Ground Floor, ANZAC House, Torrens Training Depot.

Availability is limited. If you are unable to book, please email the Schools Program Manager [email protected]

To book scan the QR code below or go to: https://www.trybooking.com/CYIID

Living in regional areas?

One-on-one video conferencing sessions (30mins – 1 hour) are available for teachers and students on the following dates:

Tuesday 8 July, 2025

Wednesday 16 July, 2025

To book a video conferencing session please email [email protected]

If the dates above are not convenient, please contact us to arrange a more suitable time [email protected]