Yearlevel: Professional Learning

Explore how story development, illustration, and adaptation converge to create compelling screen stories in this special panel discussion with the team behind Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia. 

Discover inspiring and practical ways to engage Years 5 – 8 students with Tales from Outer Suburbia, the beautiful new series adaptation of Shaun Tan’s much loved book. In this virtual professional learning session, Dr Susan Bye will introduce the new education resource and unpack how this imaginative, distinctly Australian series can enrich learning in English and Media Arts. 

This clip collection introduces students to key ideas in civics and citizenship education, including democracy, diversity rights and responsibilities, and active participation in community life. Through engaging Australian children’s television content, students reflect, explore and create activities that build their understanding of what it means to be an active and informed member of their community. 

In this professional learning webinar, the ACTF Education team will introduce high-quality, curriculum-aligned resources that take students behind-the-scenes of Australian children’s screen content. These free resources support educators to explore the craft of storytelling in screen media and to inspire students to create and share their own stories with confidence.

This clip collection is designed to help students understand and practice respectful communication, focusing on concepts of consent, bodily autonomy and personal boundaries. Using clips from Australian children’s television content, students work through activities that build their awareness of how to ask for, give, and deny permission.