Program

HTAV Annual Conference: CHANGING THE COURSE OF HISTORY
Thursday 1 – Friday 2 August 2024 | Jasper Hotel, Melbourne CBD

Earlybird rate ends Tuesday 16 July.
All registrations must close Tuesday 23 July.

The HTAV Annual Conference, themed Changing the Course of History, will feature an impressive range of workshops, lectures and practical seminars that will provide ideas for engaging classroom strategies, activities and pedagogy to help build on the learning outcomes of students.

Learn from experts from schools and organisations across Victoria in an environment filled with like-minded educators. This is an experience rich with insights that you can take back to your classrooms and share with your school community. The evaluation feedback from our conferences shows that teachers advance their subject-specific knowledge and practice by reaching beyond their own school gates.

Join us on an informative and insightful History journey and share in the unique spirit when the History community comes together.

Confirmation emails with session allocations and full event details will be issued during the week beginning Monday 29 July.

1. Check out the program below.
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3. Register.

Please note: Members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities should be aware that this program contains an image of a person now deceased. Program booklet Support your application for professional learning

Session descriptions and presenter biographies

Thursday 1 August	Friday 2 August

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Thursday 1 August	Friday 2 August

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DAY ONE – Thursday 1 August

9.00 am	REGISTRATION
9.50 am	WELCOME AND HOUSEKEEPING
10.20 am	SESSION 1: Please choose one workshop from this session.
T1.1	The ‘Russian’ Revolutions(s): Old and New Approaches to 1917 Professor Mark Edele, The University of Melbourne VCE REVOLUTIONS
T1.2	Developing Evaluation of Historical Sources Tasks in VCE History Ian Lyell, Mentone Girls’ Grammar School VCE MODERN HISTORY | VCE REVOLUTIONS | BYOD
T1.3	Tools for Engagement: A Practical Approach to Teaching History Siobhan Shaw, Sunbury College GENERAL
T1.4	Object-based Learning in the History Classroom Gurmeet Kaur, Museums Victoria LEVELS 9–10 | VCE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
T1.5	Mythbusters: Tackling the Biggest Fallacies in Education Ben Lawless, Aitken College and Lawless Learning GENERAL | BYOD
T1.6	Teaching Deep Time and the Importance of Place Kath Burke and Pete Leete, St Margaret Mary’s College, Townsville LEVELS 7–8
T1.7	Apprenticing Young Historians Malcolm Lindner, Pembroke School, Adelaide LEVELS 7–8
11.15 am	MORNING TEA
11.50 am	SESSION 2: Please choose one workshop from this session.
T2.1	‘The Terror’ 1793–1794: Revolutionary Defence or Paranoia? Emeritus Professor Peter McPhee AM, The University of Melbourne VCE REVOLUTIONS
T2.2	‘What Do I Write Next, Miss?’: How to Help Students Build a Strong Knowledge Base in History Agata Kula, Bacchus Marsh Grammar GENERAL | BYOD
T2.3	Perdita Res Publica: The Failed Reforms of M. Livius Drusus (91 BCE) Professor Frederik Vervaet, The University of Melbourne VCE ANCIENT HISTORY | BYOD
T2.4	AI in Education: Beyond ChatGPT and Towards Transformation Paul Allen, Ivanhoe Grammar School GENERAL | BYOD
T2.5	How Can Teaching History Help with Student Wellbeing? Jo Leech, Carey Baptist Grammar School LEVELS 9–10 | VCE | INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE | BYOD
T2.6	So You’re an Early-career Teacher (or Mentor to One) Ashley Keith Pratt, Southern Cross Grammar, and Lyndon John Pratt, Bacchus Marsh Grammar GENERAL
T2.7	Making History Come Alive in Your Classroom Michael Kulkewycz, Sirius College LEVELS 7–10
12.50 pm	KEYNOTE SESSION: ‘We Won, You Lost. Get Over It!’ Moving Beyond Truth-telling to Justice in the Australian History Classroom Dr Aleryk Fricker, Deakin University The process of truth-telling in the History classroom has become more prominent in recent times. This has largely been driven by History teachers from a revisionist perspective, seeking to explore the untold histories of the forgotten people as a direct response to the ‘great men of history’ mentality that has dominated History classrooms for much of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the Australian context, this has contributed to an increase in the amount of First Nations content but also the troubling nature of the content being covered. Truth-telling has undoubtably had an impact on the History classroom, but possibly not in the ways it was hoped. This keynote explores the process of truth-telling and reconciliation, its limitations, and how the History classroom can move beyond historical truth-telling and into just History. Dr Aleryk (Al) Fricker is a proud Dja Dja Wurrung academic based at the NIKERI Institute at Deakin University. A former History teacher, he now coordinates the Indigenous Education units across all the undergraduate education programs at Deakin. Al’s research focuses on Indigenous education and decolonising education in Australia so that all students can benefit from engaging with the oldest teaching pedagogies and knowledges in the world.
1.45 pm	NETWORKING LUNCH
2.35 pm	EXHIBITOR PASSPORT PRIZE DRAWS
2.50 pm	VCAA UPDATE: NEW VICTORIAN CURRICULUM F–10 Adam Brodie-McKenzie, Curriculum Manager (History and Civics), Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
3.15 pm	SESSION 3: Please choose one workshop from this session.
T3.1	How to Stop Your Empire Crumbling: Engaging Students in the Study of Early Modern History Hilary Tieri, Assumption College, Kilmore VCE EMPIRES | BYOD
T3.2	Archaeology and Ancient Australia Alethea Kinsela, Plainspeak Publishing LEVELS 7–8 | PUBLISHER SESSION
T3.3	Empowering Gifted Historians: Depths and Complexity Approach Joshua Cozzio, Ivanhoe Grammar School GENERAL | BYOD
T3.4	Building Cultural Capital in the Middle Years Classroom Jane Denman and Emma Winton, Nossal High School LEVELS 9–10 | BYOD
T3.5	Using Egyptomania to Promote History in Schools Andree Buchanan, Luther College, and Alanna Clark and Astrid Morgan, Victory Lutheran College LEVELS 7–8 | VCE ANCIENT HISTORY | BYOD
4.15 pm	SOCIAL HOUR Sponsored by

DAY TWO – Friday 2 August

9.00 am	REGISTRATION
9.50 am	WELCOME AND HOUSEKEEPING
10.20 am	SESSION 1: Please choose one workshop from this session.
F1.1	A History of Ancient Australia Preserved in 10 Amazing Sites Associate Professor Duncan Wright and Dave Johnston, Australian National University LEVELS 7–10 | HTAV PUBLISHER SESSION
F1.2	Assisting ALL Students to Achieve Holly Bracken, Bayswater Secondary College VCE | BYOD
F1.3	Explicit Instruction in the History Classroom Ashley Keith Pratt, Southern Cross Grammar, and James Sach, Fintona Girls’ School GENERAL
F1.4	Age of Empires: World History Louis Goutos, St Joseph’s College LEVELS 9–10 | BYOD
F1.5	Resources and Research on History Teaching from Europe Bridget Martin, International School of Paris GENERAL | BYOD
F1.6	Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Oral Histories as Teaching Tools Professor Kim Rubenstein, University of Canberra LEVELS 9–10 | VCE MODERN HISTORY | VCE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | BYOD
F1.7	Australia’s Response to the Holocaust Dr Simon Holloway, Melbourne Holocaust Museum LEVELS 9–10 | BYOD
11.15 am	MORNING TEA
11.50 am	SESSION 2: Please choose one workshop from this session.
F2.1	The Consolidation of Empires: Exploring the Key Elements of Area of Study 2 Professor Darius von Güttner, Australian Catholic University VCE EMPIRES
F2.2	Film as Historical Interpretation Hollie Griffiths and Cassie Purer, Prahran High School LEVELS 7–10 | VCE MODERN HISTORY | BYOD
F2.3	Explicit Instruction on Steroids: Disaggregating History Skills Ben Lawless, Aitken College and Lawless Learning GENERAL | BYOD
F2.4	Is This Real? Exploring Object-based Learning at the NGV Johanna Petkov, National Gallery of Victoria LEVELS 7–8
F2.5	Practical Ideas for the History Teachers’ Toolbox Ash Wood, St Leonard’s College GENERAL
F2.6	Teaching IB History for the First Time? James Desmond, The Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
F2.7	Making History Units More Engaging with the New and Free Adobe Express Tools Dr Tim Kitchen, Adobe GENERAL | BYOD
12.50 pm	KEYNOTE SESSION: Making Australian History Professor Anna Clark, University of Technology Sydney I’ve studied the ‘history wars’ for 20 years, so I know how Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations. Each iteration of Australia’s national story reveals not only the past in question, but also the guiding concerns and perceptions of each generation of history makers. Surprisingly, when I wrote Making Australian History there had been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. That was my starting point for the book. But when it came to writing, it seemed there were more questions than answers: Where does Australian history even begin? With Deep Time? With those early colonial accounts of New Holland? And who are Australia’s historians? History making has taken place in what we now call Australia for thousands of generations, but the History discipline has also been part of the architecture of its colonisation, policing whose stories can be told and by whom. We also know that history can play a vital role in truth-telling and reconciliation, as the Uluru Statement from the Heart has advocated. I wrote this book because I wanted to tell the story of ‘Australian history’—with all its messiness and possibility. Professor Anna Clark is an award-winning historian, author and public commentator. An internationally recognised scholar in Australian history, History education and the role of history in everyday life, Anna’s most recent books are The Catch: Australia’s Love Affair with Fishing (2023) and Making Australian History (2022). She is currently Professor of History at the University of Technology Sydney.
1.45 pm	NETWORKING LUNCH
2.35 pm	EXHIBITOR PASSPORT PRIZE DRAWS
2.50pm	VCAA UPDATE: VCE HISTORY Adam Brodie-McKenzie, Curriculum Manager (History and Civics), Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
3.15 pm	SESSION 3: Please choose one workshop from this session.
F3.1	Beyond Ethnography: Sources for Investigating Deep Time Australia Dr Georgia Stannard, La Trobe University LEVELS 7–8
F3.2	The Black Death: Keeping the Grimly Won Gains Lorenzo Warby, Multisensory (Medieval) Education LEVELS 7–8 | VCE EMPIRES
F3.3	From Peter I to Putin: Russian Imperialism and Ukraine Andrew Pyrcz, Lyndale Secondary College VCE EMPIRES | VCE MODERN HISTORY | VCE REVOLUTIONS
F3.4	Making the Big Six Your Big Six James Brown and Charlene Landvogt, Scotch College GENERAL | BYOD
F3.5	Understanding the Delian League through Evidence and Research Namrata Shipstone, Melton Christian College VCE ANCIENT HISTORY | BYOD
F3.6	There’s a Poem for That! Gordon Brown, University High School GENERAL | BYOD
4.15 pm	SOCIAL HOUR Meet the Author! Duncan Wright, author of HTAV Publishing’s new Teaching Ancient Australia.

Please note: The views and advice presented at HTAV events are not necessarily the views of HTAV. Teachers should use their professional judgement to decide whether to implement or apply what they learn.

Some presenters may use modified extracts from the Victorian Curriculum F–10. These may include the work of other authors. The VCAA does not endorse nor verify the accuracy of the information provided and accepts no responsibility for incomplete or inaccurate information. You can find the most up to date version of the Victorian Curriculum at victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au.