AIP Victoria - Teachers

Education Committee Membership and Tasks

Sue Grant, formerly balwyn High School (Chair)

Noel Adams, Trinity Grammar School Gary Bass, formerly Eastern Metroplitan Regional office Chris Bowen, Caulfield Grammar School (WH)

Keith Burrows, formerly Rudolf Steiner School Gary Cohen, Highvale Secondary College Paul Cuthbert, Camberwell High School

Jonathon de Booy, Craigieburn Secondary College Dr Christina Hart, University of Melbourne Helen Lye, ACER

Martin Mahy, De La Salle College Oscar Menuel, Buckley Park College Dr David Mills, Monash Uni

Dan O’Keeffe, formerly Camberwell Grammar School Alan Reynolds, Box Hill High School Francis Sidari, Craigieburn Secondary College

Diane Wilkinson, Box Hill High School Robbie Xin, Dandenong High School

The Education Committee is a group of teachers and academics. Membership of the Committee and its meetings are open to any interested teacher. The Committee meets monthly after school on the second Tuesday of each month at 5.00 – 7.00pm, to work for physics in the following areas:-

Liaising with VCAA on curriculum matters,

Preparing a written review of the June and November VCE Physics Exams,

Liaising with STAV on professional development matters,

Planning the Physics Teachers Conference in association with STAV,

Running professional development activities on the Synchrotron and Medical Physics,

Organising physics promotional activities for students, such as Switch On To Physics program, VCE Physics Days at Luna Park and the Photonics program at Swinburne,

Distributing Physics material such as the Transistor kit, the Bragg Diffraction kit, the Synchrotron CDROM and Physics Careers DVD “Physics as a Life Skill”,

Administering www.vicphysics.org,

Advising the Victorian Branch and the Federal Branch of the AIP on educational matters.