Museums Victoria professional learning

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Museums Victoria professional learning for teachers

Access Museum Victoria's staff, expertise and resources for your next professional learning opportunity at Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, Immigration Museum or online. Take advantage of our unique expertise and award-winning exhibitions and facilities.

In person professional learning

Pre-service teachers receiving professional learning from Museums Victoria.

Learning in Museums for Preservice Teacher Groups

Melbourne Museum, SCienceworks & Immigration Museum | BY Appointment

These sessions are bookable by university lecturers wanting to deepen their preservice student teachers’ understanding of excursion pedagogy.

Artificial Intelligence in Education

Scienceworks | Thursday 21 March 2024

Join the Scienceworks Education team for an opportunity for Teachers to learn about and discuss Artificial Intelligence and its use across different sectors, including education.

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Design Week 2024: Design Sprint Pedagogy

Scienceworks | Tuesday 28 May 2024

Scienceworks has been running STEM Design Sprints since 2018. Come learn from our experience: our mistakes, our successes, and what technology tools work well.

Michelle Chen and Caitlin Kozman chat about game design with a Unity scene builder screen mounted to the wall in the background.

Creative Game Development in the Classroom: Forest Footprints

Melbourne Museum | Wednesday 29 May 2024

Discover the intersection of personal storytelling and gaming to ignite student passions. Unlock gaming's educational potential for use in your classroom.

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Creative Futures | Design Education Program

Melbourne Museum | Monday 1 July 2024

This one day, free intensive for Design and Technology teachers nurtures excellence in design education in Victoria.

Dinosaurs! The ultimate theme to teach Primary Science

Melbourne Museum | Wednesday 3 JuLY 2024

Dinosaurs were once living things! In this teacher professional learning session, upskill your knowledge on how you can use dinosaurs to teach science curriculum.

Contemporary Space Science

Scienceworks | Tuesday 6 August 2024

What’s happening in space, and how can we make it exciting and relevant in our classrooms?

Child filling in a student booklet in the Voices Across Time gallery at Immigration Museum on a school excursion.

Educator’s Tour of the Immigration Museum

Immigration Museum | thursday 17 October 2024

Explore Immigration Museum resources and connect with educators

Physics in the Playground

Scienceworks | Tuesday 29 October 2024

How can you use your school playground as a place for learning with your students?

STEM Curious: Hands on experiences for early years educators

Select Dates

STEM Curious is a 2 hour professional learning program for educators and teachers using the VEYLDF within their service.

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Helping Students Learn Maths and Science: New Research

Scienceworks | Monday 11 November 2024

Join Scienceworks & the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences (MSPS) to discuss educational neuroscience research on the development of science and mathematics skills.

Teachers engage in Design thinking at the Creative Futures Professional Development day at Melbourne Museum

Creative Futures Shepparton

Melbourne Museum | Wednesday 20 November 2024

This one day, intensive for Design & Technologies teachers in Greater Shepparton and surrounding areas will help educators improve design education in their schools.

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Notre-Dame Exhibition Tour for Educators

Immigration Museum | Saturday 7 December 2024

Experience Notre-Dame exhibition tour for educators and learn about Immigration Museum education programs.

Virtual professional learning

STEM Curious: Hands on experiences for early years educators

Select Dates

STEM Curious is a 2 hour professional learning program for educators and teachers using the VEYLDF within their service.

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STEM Beyond: Extending STEM from your early childhood service

7 & 8 Oct

STEM Beyond is a virtual 60-minute webinar that will show you ways to better engage with your families through a ‘STEM lens’.

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STEM Numeracy: Nurturing Mathematical Minds in Early Childhood

19, 20, 21, 23 Aug | 9, 10, 11, 13 Dec

STEM Numeracy is a virtual 2 hour professional learning program for early childhood educators and teachers.

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STEMworks

Is your school thinking about STEM? Engage with Scienceworks and discover best practice for integrating new and emerging technologies into classroom inquiry units.

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Museums Victoria professional learning