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Need help with safety in the workshop? Download our OH&S in the Technologies Classroom toolkit.
DATTA Vic partnered with RMIT and Monash University to create these Careers in Design & Engineering toolkits. Perfect for highlighting career pathways, promoting VCE subjects and exploring professional practice.




2025 Planning Day for Teachers of 7-10 Design & Technologies, VCE PD&T & VCE Systems 

9.30am - 3.30pm

Melbourne University School of Design

This professional learning activity, delivered at Melbourne University's beautiful School of Design, will get you ready to implement your curriculum in 2025, whether you will be teaching VCE PD&T, VCE Systems Engineering or the new Design & Technologies years 7-10..


Online SAT Masterclasses for Students of VCE PD&T and VCE Systems Engineering

VCE PD&T: 2nd Feb 2025, 9.30am - 12.30pm

VCE Systems Engineering: 1st March, 9am - 11am

Join our expert educators Jill Livett and Michael Slinger for these invaluable sessions which are designed to give your students the best possible start with their Year 12 SATs.  With engaging activities and lots of resources, these are online sessions your classes shouldn't miss!





Are you an out-of-field educator teaching Design & Technologies or Systems Engineering? Is your school struggling to recruit qualified teachers? DATTA Vic runs a masterclass program to support educators from other learning areas to teach D&T.  These programs are for members only, and numbers are strictly limited. See links below for more information and to register:

Bookings for our 2024 masterclasses are now closed. 

Please check our 2025 professional learning calendar - we'll post details of our new programs as they come online.



OUR ANNUAL CONFERENCE



DON'T MISS THE

DATTA VIC ANNUAL CONFERENCE

DATTA Vic is excited to introduce our 2024 teachers' conference, Movers & Makers.

This event will celebrate how Design & Technologies education can equip young people with creative and critical thinking abilities, adeptness in communication and teamwork and essential skills in traditional methods and emerging technologies. This is the place where the problem solvers of the future are made.

We'll have over 25 workshops suitable for teachers of primary, secondary and tertiary Design & Technologies, VCE Product Design & Technologies, VCE Systems Engineering and STEM.

REGISTER HERE




NEW RESOURCES FROM FOREST LEARNING


Sustainable Schools - Going Green in Your Canteen 



We're excited to share that The Forest Learning Sustainable Schools: Going Green in Your Canteen unit of work has received a ‘Highly Commended’ award in the Primary School Geography Resource F-6 category at the 2024 Australian Geography Teachers' Association Awards! DATTA Vic and the Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria were partners in developing this resource.

AGTA Chair Dr Susan Caldis commented on the resource:

“This is a highly commended resource with both teacher and student booklets. Activities are colourfully and clearly presented and enable practical application of aspects of sustainability“

This Year 5/6 cross-curricular resource for Geography and Design and Technologies focuses on sustainability, helping students to understand the environmental impacts of the materials that go into making products they use every day, and encouraging them to make more sustainable choices for single use plastics.

You can download this free resource HERE. Please note you just have to create a login to download it.


Thinking Outside the Box - The Sustainable Seating Project



We're really excited to announce the publication of a new Design & Technologies resource that we created with Forest Learning - an organisation which aims to serve school teachers and educators, children, and the public with information on Australian forests and forest-based products, and provision and access to forestry teaching resources.

Thinking Ouside the Box - The Sustainable Seating Project is a Year 7/8 Unit of Work which investigates the properties and sustainability of cardboard . Using ForestVR 360o videos, students go on virtual excursions to an Australian pine plantation and paper mill to experience the cycle of growing sustainable wood fibre and how it is processed into paperboard. Following the design thinking process, students then investigate, design, produce and evaluate a sustainable seat made from upcycled cardboard.

The resource is free - you just have to create a login to download it. Click on the image above to access.

These are just two of many Design & Resources available from Forest Learning - make sure you browse their site to discover them all.



INDUSTRIAL DESIGN STUDENTS AS TECHNICIANS IN SCHOOLS


Are you a school who wants to wants to engage more young people in Design & Technologies by ensuring your team has the most up-to-date skills and knowledge and the best support possible for your teachers?

Are you a tertiary design student who would love to work part time in an excited design-related field, with good pay, access to tools and machinery and the chance to help young people excel?

Then check out our Industrial Design Students as Technicians in Schools initiative!


BECOME A DESIGN & TECHNOLOGIES TEACHER



Are you interested in teaching Design & Technologies, Product Design & Technologies or Systems Engineering in Victoria? Whether you're a graduate, an overseas educator, or a teacher with another specialisation, DATTA Vic has created a range of guides which show the different pathways into D&T teaching.  You can access them HERE.

If you're an educator teaching D&T out of field, or a school struggling to recruit, we have developed Masterclasses to support you. Click HERE for more information.


OUR COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY



DATTA Vic is committed to supporting the teaching of sustainability in all schools across Victoria. We also strive to ensure that, in our daily operations, we do what we can to reduce our carbon footprint. We are therefore a proud supporter of Fifteen Trees. 

Established in 2009, the company works with host of independent native nurseries and community groups (such as Landcare, school groups and environmental networks) across Australia to plant trees. To date, they have helped community groups plant over 350,000 trees in all states and territories of Australia.

To date, we have planted 75 trees as a way to thank our conference and professional learning program presenters for their contribution.


What we do

We aim to:

  • Provide advice and support for teachers
  • Foster the study and teaching of Design & Technologies
  • Deliver professional learning workshops and conferences
  • Create teaching resources
  • Offer networking opportunities
  • Support pre-service teachers with placements and mentors
  • Develop partnership programs
  • Advocate with government, industry and the tertiary sector

Our Members Teach:

  • The Australian and Victorian Curricula
  •  F-10 Design & Technologies (including electronics, engineering systems, coding, robotics, food & fibre production, materials & technologies specialisations
  • Primary & Secondary
  • STEaM
  • VCE Product Design & Technologies
  • VCE Systems Engineering
  • VCAL & VET
  • Higher Education
  • Community organisations

5 Reasons for becoming a Member

  1. Free resources & free virtual teach meets running throughout the year
  2. Discounted teaching materials, professional learning and conferences
  3. Access to support and advice on teaching Design and Technologies
  4. Contact with many other involved teachers and the chance to network
  5. Be part of an organisation who advocates on behalf our our members and learning area to federal and state government and the wider education community

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We support our members by:

  • Running annual conferences
  • Offering a rage of professional learning workshops
  • Delivering student sessions on VCE Product Design & Technologies and VCE Systems Engineering
  • Providing help and advice
  • Developing resources
  • Contributing to education initiatives which benefit Design & Technologies teachers

Developing partnerships with key stakeholders that will benefit teachers and students of Design & Technologies. These include;

  • Department of Education and Training (DET)
  • The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA)
  • Council of Professional Teachers Associations of Victoria (CPTAV)
  • DATTA Australia
  • Individual subject associations for the purposes of Professional Learning
  • Other professional bodies
  • Educational Institutions
  • Relevant Industry, Community and Government Organisations

DATTA Vic Mission

Design and Technologies is an area of the curriculum that applies the Design Process, and uses tools and materials (with new technological knowledge) to create products, services and environments.

DATTA Vic represents Design and Technologies Teachers (including Systems Engineering, STEM, Textiles, Electronics, Auto & Primary teachers) in education throughout Victoria.

DATTA Vic is a non-profit organisation that was formed in October 1987. Since our humble beginnings as a group of like-minded teachers of Technology we have grown to a membership of over 1300 educators.

The DATTA Vic committee consists of volunteer members and two part-time paid office staff.

We hold annual conferences and facilitate various Professional Learning workshops throughout the year.

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MEMBERSHIP LINKS

DATTA Vic

ABN 97 315 356 383

 03 9349 5809

 pl@datta.vic.edu.au

  Abbotsford Convent

Room C1.22

Convent Building

1 St Heliers Street

Abbotsford

VIC 3067


DATTA Vic's Office hours are Monday - Thursday, 9am - 5pm

DATTA Vic acknowledges and pays respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians

of the land on which we work.


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