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Professional Development Opportunities
Vicphysics acknowledges the support of the Department of Education Training, Victoria, through the Strategic Partnerships Program.

Next programs

  • Electricity
  • Forces and Motion

The Electrical Forces and Circuits module is for Years 7 – 10 teachers. The intensive module steps you through the key concepts and skills required to successfully teach the relevant Years 7 – 10 Curriculum content. See details below. Click here for regional flyer and here for flyer of metropolitan event.
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Why participate in the Electricity Program?:

  • Deepen your conceptual understanding of key concepts in Electric Circuits
  • Engage in hands-on practical activities that you can directly deploy in your classroom
  • Unpack typical student misconceptions and learn best practice pedagogy for combating them
  • Improve your ability to differentiate curriculum and assessment student achievement
  • Access materials to support your classroom practice prepared by experienced teachers and science education academics associated with the Vicphysics Teachers’ Network
  • Become part of a network like-minded teachers who are striving to improve their practice

Electricity Forces and Circuits Program: It will now consist of two full-day sessions for Hamilton and for Wangaratta. Each day will run from 9:30am to 3:30pm. The Six two-hour workshops will be at Kew High School in Term 3 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm.

The venues are: Monivae College in Hamilton on Weds, 31st May and Tuesday, 6th June, Cathedral College in Wangaratta on Weds, 24th May and Thursday, 15th June and Kew High School on Thursdays from 27th July to 31st August.
Cost: $240 per participant, with discounts available for teachers from schools with a low ICSEA rank. You can pay either by credit card or by an offline payment using EFT.
To book click on the name of chosen venue: Hamilton, Wangaratta and Kew High School.

The Forces and motion intensive module for Science teachers of Years 7 – 10 will be repeated in Term 3, 2023. The Six two-hour workshops will be at John Monash Science School in Term 3 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm on Mondays from 24th July to 27th August. Click here for the flyer.
Why participate in Forces and Motion program?

  • Deepen your conceptual understanding of key force and motion ideas.
  • Engage in key hands-on practical activities that you can directly deploy in your classroom.
  • Unpack typical student misconceptions and learn best practice pedagogy for combatting them.
  • Improve your ability to differentiate curriculum and assess student achievement.
  • Access materials to support your classroom practice prepared by experienced teachers and science
    education academics associated with the Vicphysics Teachers’ Network.
  • Become part of a network of like-minded teachers that are striving to improve their practice


A Forces and motion intensive module for Science teachers of Years 7 – 10

  • Are you teaching Science in Years 7 to 10 and finding the physics challenging?
  • Are you out of your field of expertise?

To book click here.
This Forces and motion intensive module steps you through the key concepts and skills required to successfully teach the relevant Year 7 – 10 curriculum content.

Programs offered so far:
The Special Relativity intensive module for VCE Physics teachers is running again this year. It is a six-week block as an online PD. See details below. This Special Relativity intensive module steps you through the key concepts and skills required to successfully teach the relevant content in VCE Physics. Click here for flyer.

Why participate in SR Program?:

  • Deepen your understanding of key concepts in special relativity
  • Engage in key simulations and activities that you can directly deploy in your classroom
  • Unpack typical student misconceptions and learn best practice pedagogy for combating them
  • Improve your ability to differentiate curriculum and assessment student achievement
  • Access materials to support your classroom practice prepared by experienced teachers and science education academics associated with the Vicphysics Teachers’ Network
  • Become part of a network like-minded teachers who are striving to improve their practice

SR Program: Six two-hour workshops, presented by experienced teacher, Theo Hughes. It is being presented online in six weekly sessions on Mondays from 1st May to 5th June, starting at 4:30pm. It is expected that it will be offered again in 2024.
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Cost: $240 per participant, with discounts available for teachers from schools with a low ICSEA rank. You can pay either by credit card or by an offline payment using EFT.

Future Programs: Five modules are being developed, four relevant to science teachers at the 7 – 10 level: forces and motion, electric circuits, light and sound, sources of electricity; and one for VCE Physics teachers: special relativity.

One of the Level 7 – 10 courses will be offered per term. The courses will also be offered in regional areas.

Scope: This project offers out-of-field teachers an opportunity to engage deeply with curriculum by stepping them through the vertical conceptual development of the relevant key knowledge and skills in the curriculum and by explicitly working through appropriate interactive learning activities, enabling teachers to experience the content both as students and teachers.

This event is organised by the Vicphysics Teachers’ Network and is supported by the Strategic Partnerships Program of the Department of Education and Training.

For other queries please email Vicphysics