The Community Education offers different styles of professional learning programs, and both online and face to face options.
Parliament 101 – Basics Course
The last block was conducted in January 2026. Future dates will be added during the term.
Session 1: Parliamentary Basics
Duration: 90 minutes online | 2 hours face to face
Delivery: Online or face to face
Suits: New teachers of Civics and Citizenship across years 3-10, teachers seeking a refresher, teachers from other subject areas looking to upskill
Contents: A walkthrough of the knowledge and understanding within the Australian Curriculum for Civics and Citizenship, and strategies for teaching the content in the classroom.
Session 2: Understanding Legislation
Duration: 60 minutes online
Delivery: Online
Suits: Teachers who have completed Parliamentary Basics, teachers of years 6-12 Civics & Citizenship or SACE Legal Studies or Politics
Contents: This session expands on the concepts covered in Parliamentary Basics by covering the passage of a Bill in detail, with strategies to bring the process to life in the classroom.
Session 3: Tips for Teaching Civics & Citizenship
Duration: 60 minutes online | 60 minutes face to face
Delivery: Online or face to face
Suits: New teachers of Civics and Citizenship across years 3-10, teachers seeking a refresher
Contents: This program covers practical strategies for making Civics & Citizenship lessons fun and engaging.
Other PL Programs
Outside of the Parliament 101 Basics Course, the Community Education Office hosts various other professional learning programs throughout the year, including:
- Collaborative programs with other institutions
- Conference sessions
- Activity workshops
Custom Programs
Would you like your staff to boost their Civics & Citizenship knowledge and gain professional learning hours for free? The Community Education Office can customise professional learning for your faculty or site.
Depending on timing and location, we can either:
- Visit your school and present for a faculty/staff meeting, or be part of a training day
- Connect into your school digitally and facilitate an interactive online session
Sessions can run from 60 minutes to half day workshops.
We can run a standard program from our Parliament 101 Basics Course, or we can custom build a session based on the needs of your site.
Ideas for custom sessions:
- Stepping through the Civics & Citizenship curriculum for teachers (based on the year levels they teach) with ideas of resources that can be used for each year level and activity demonstrations. We show ways to extend students, or support students, in the different areas of the curriculum.
- Exploring site-wide options, e.g. experimenting with school voting processes, SRC structures. Discussing other methods to embed youth voice and democratic processes in the school culture.
- Civics and Citizenship concepts – learn how to teach using the concept wheel and cards.
- Activity workshops – you pick Civics & Citizenship topics, and we run back-to-back examples of teaching activities.
- Artful Citizenship – Blending Civics & Creativity in the Classroom
A combined program with the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Parliament of South Australia. The first section explores how to teach Civics & Citizenship via conceptual thinking, and the second section shows practical cross-curricular implementation through visual art. There is an AGSA fee involved – learn more here.