{"id":203,"date":"2017-02-15T12:35:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T12:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2026-10-28T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:18:30","slug":"advocacy-kit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/advocacy-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"203\" class=\"elementor elementor-203\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f6664c0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6f6664c0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-180fb9e0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"180fb9e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>An advocacy kit is a collection of information and resources that will help publicly support, promote or champion a cause.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h4>Recommendations<\/h4><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recommendations for promoting the role of the school science technicians. The idea of an advocacy kit was promoted at CONASTA in Perth in 2015. An opportunity for suggestions and feedback was given at this time during an interactive SETA forum as well as an online survey. The following is a compilation of the main ideas expressed,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2016-September-Advocacy-Kit-feedback-summarised.docx\">2016 September Advocacy Kit feedback summarised<\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h4>Role of the school science technician<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4><p>The role of the school science technician in Australian schools is to support practical activities in the science curriculum. The following links contain information regarding this role and examples or promoting the role.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Technical-Staff-in-Schools-policy-2012.pdf\">Technical Staff in Schools policy 2012<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/profile-activities\/\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Profile &amp; Activities<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Testimonial_LynBeazley.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Testimonial Lyn Beazley<\/a> (pdf)<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h4>Recognition of the school science technician<\/h4><p>There are a number of awards that are presented to school science technicians that recognise the contribution of individual technicians to science education.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/au.educationhq.com\/news\/26609\/lab-technicians-support\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/au.educationhq.com\/news\/26609\/lab-technicians-support\/#<\/a><\/p><p>Peter Doherty Awards for Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education <a href=\"https:\/\/education.qld.gov.au\/about-us\/events-awards\/awards-competitions\/peter-doherty-awards-for-excellence-in-STEM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/education.qld.gov.au\/about-us\/events-awards\/awards-competitions\/peter-doherty-awards-for-excellence-in-STEM<\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h4>Responsibilities of the school science technician<\/h4><p>The role of school science technician is very important when highlighting safety considerations. Most accidents are preventable.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h4>Useful safety resources (please send others you find useful)<\/h4><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au\/\">Safe Work Australia<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.vic.gov.au\/school\/teachers\/management\/Pages\/chemicalmgt.aspx\">DEECD Vic Chemical Management<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/assist.asta.edu.au\/resource\/4193\/chemical-management-handbook-australian-schools-edition-1?search-id=309be71\">Chemical Management Handbook &#8211; Science ASSIST<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/assist.asta.edu.au\/sites\/assist.asta.edu.au\/files\/Microbiology%20Guidelines_FINALv3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guidelines for Best Practice in Microbiology in Australian Schools\u00a0<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/assist.asta.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Science ASSIST home page<\/a><\/p><p>We hope that this collection of ideas, information, resources, links and strategies will help empower technicians to promote the role of School Science Education Technicians.<\/p><p>This Advocacy kit is envisioned as a living document to be updated and expanded annually. If you have any further suggestions please contact SETA through this link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/contact\/\">Contacts<\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advocacy kit is a collection of information and resources that will help publicly support, promote or champion a cause. \u00a0 Recommendations Recommendations for promoting the role of the school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}