Publications

The EBE Journal — 2017


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal?  Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 1 — 2017

Contents

  • President’s Report – Joe Alvaro
  • EBE NSW News
  • Studying Economics: The Decline in Enrolments and Why it Matters – Jacqui Dwyer
  • Economics on decline but can be rescued – Tony Kuc
  • Pitch Perfect: Engaging Business Studies Students in the Art of Marketing Campaigns – Ben Andersen
  • Problem Based Learning with Preliminary Economics Students – Elly Klappas
  • Setting up students for success: The importance of the first Preliminary Assessment Task in Business Studies – Jay Short
  • Indigenous Economics: A School Developed Option for Stage 5 Commerce Course – Wendy Mockler-Giles
  • Your 2018 Business Studies and Commerce Students are invited to enter the Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition
  • PYOE Competition – Waffles on Wheels – Sarah Matthias
  • Girls take out top spot in the ASX Schools Sharemarket Game 1 2017 – Amanda Mior
  • Women are dropping out of economics, which means men are running our economy – Danielle Wood
  • Student2Student – Women in Economics: A Rare Species? – Ana Ali
  • Revealed: The hidden problem of economic abuse in Australia – Jozica Kutin, Mike Reid and Roslyn Russell
  • Business Case Studies in Global Expansion – Ben Andersen
  • Focus on the Why – Wendy Mockler-Giles
  • Using student reflections to improve their writing in the Commerce Political Involvement Topic – Bernadette Henry and Katrina McLean-Smith
  • Stage 5 Commerce Tactical Teaching Activity Reflection – Bernadette Henry and Katrina McLean-Smith
  • 2016 HSC Economics Examination: Unpacking the Question 20 of the Mulitiple Choice Question Section – Mai Ni Pham

The EBE Journal: Issue 2 — 2017

Contents

  • President’s Report
  • EBE NSW News
  • 2017 EBE NSW Annual Conference – New Frontiers: Economics and Business Education in an Era of Innovation
    – Report by Elizabeth Perry, 2017 EBE NSW Annual Conference Rural Grant Recipient, The Rivers Secondary College, Richmond River High Campus
  • 2017 EBE NSW Annual Conference – New Frontiers: Economics and Business Education in an Era of Innovation
    – Report by Daniel Benjamin, 2017 EBE NSW Annual Conference Rural Grant Recipient, Sapphire Coast Anglican College, Bega
  • Business Case Study: Ecto Handplanes – Cheryl Brennan
  • Case Study: Nahji Chu, Queen of Rice Paper Rolls – Mai Ni Pham
  • Developing Deep, Authentic Learning Experiences in Economics – Matt Robinson
  • A student from Quilpie in South West Queensland wins National 1st in the ASX Schools Sharemarket Game (Game 2, 2017) – Amanda Mior
  • PYOE Competition 2017 – Winning NSW Division 1 entry
  • Yesterday news and Breaking news: Using media file templates to help students unpack all sorts of news – Mai Ni Pham
  • Should we do away with exams altogether? No, but we need to rethink their design and purpose – The Conversation, December 1 2016
  • Getting students to put their legal knowledge into practice to demonstrate understanding – Mai Ni Pham
  • What is race? – Olivia Bui
  • Submission to Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC): National Financial Literacy Strategy Consultation 2017 (October 2017) from Economics and Business Educators NSW
  • NSW Education Standards Authority 2017 Consultation Draft NSW Supplementary Documentation: Subject Content Knowledge Requirements (Revised) – Submission from Economics and Business Educators NSW
  • Open Letter from 25 Teacher Associations supports copyright
  • Submission to NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) regarding the review of the Commerce Syllabus from Economics and Business Educators NSW
  • President’s Report to the 2017 Economics and Business – Educators NSW Annual General Meeting (11 December 2017)
  • Economics and Business Educators NSW Financial Statements for the year ended 30th June 2017
  • Economics and Business Educators NSW Financial Statements for the year ended 30th June 2016

The EBE Journal — 2016


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal?  Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 1 — 2016

Contents

  • President’s Report – Joe Alvaro
  • EBE NSW News
  • Economics and Business News Bites – Compiled by Joe Alvaro, EBE NSW President
  • EBE NSW Helpdesk
  • Legal News Bites – Compiled by Joe Alvaro, EBE NSW President
  • student2student – Top 10 tips for writing an effective Business Plan for the CPA Australia Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition – Srishti Jain, 2015 CPA Australia PYOE NSW Competition Finalist, 2016 Year 12 student at Hurlstone Agricultural High School
  • Using the Thinker’s Keys to develop critical and creative thinking students –  Mai Ni Pham, EBE NSW Director, Hurlstone Agricultural High School
  • How unions are changing in a bid for relevance – and survival – Andreas Pekarek and Peter Gahan, University of Melbourne
  • Commerce and Economics learning activities based on “How unions are changing in a bid for relevance – and survival” Developed by Sam Cavallaro, Hurlstone Agricultural High School
  • Creating assessment tasks that connect students across stages of learning within the school community – Mai Ni Pham, EBE NSW Director, Hurlstone Agricultural High School
  • Contemporary Human Rights Issue Extended Response: Human Trafficking and Slavery – Adam Konya
  • Preliminary Legal Studies Assessment Task: Part 2 The Individual and the Law & Part 3 The Law in Practice – Felicity Callahan, Moorebank High School
  • Trade liberalisation – friend or foe? – Dejan Gendic, Second Year Undergraduate Student Bachelor of Economics, The University of Sydney
  • Some Reflections on Business Education – Ankita Kuntamukkala, S P Jain School of Global Management
  • Improving extended response writing in Economics with metacognitive frameworks – Matthew Parsons, EBE NSW Director, St Ignatius’ College Riverview & Lloyd Walker, Roseville College, Head of Social Sciences
  • ASX Schools Sharemarket Game 1 2016 – Amanda Mior, ASX Sharemarket Game Coordinator
  • Australian International School Teacher Profile – Henryk Flak, Hong Kong
  • Submission to 2016 Review of the NSW Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards (BOSTES) by Economics and Business Educators NSW

The EBE Journal: Issue 2 — 2016

Contents

  • President’s Report
  • EBE NSW News
  • 2016 EBE NSW CPA Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition
  • PYOE NSW Divison 1 winner successful at the 2016 national awards ceremony (national Division 1 winner)
  • Student2Student: How to Overcome the Pitfalls of Business Planning by Sarah Matthias (Division 1 Winner of CPA Australia Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition 2016)
  • A Challenging ASX Schools Sharemarket Game
  • Barry Collier OAM by Murray Trembath, St George & Sutherland Shire Leader
  • Economics Candidature Update by Mai Ni Pham, EBE NSW Director, Hurlstone Agricultural High School
  • How economics lost its identity in Australia, and how to get it back by Gigi Foster, Senior Lecturer, UNSW
  • Promoting community connections and confident creative individuals: Preliminary Business Studies Assessment Task. Developed by Cath McIntyre, Orara High School
  • Trade New Ideas for Old by Wendy Mockler-Giles, Lumen Christi Catholic College, Pambula Beach
  • Law in Practice – Class Project by Lauren Imber, Georges River Grammar, Georges Hall
  • What is critical thinking? And do universities really teach it? by Martin Davies, Principal Fellow/Associate Professor in Higher Education, University of Melbourne
  • Ng Way! Interior designer, theatre manager, human rights advocate and educator
  • Australian Council for Human Rights Education by Lynda-ann Blanchard, Vice President ACHRE
  • Guided reciprocal peer questioning by Elly Klappas, Hurlstone Agricultural High School
  • Economics and Business Educators NSW Survey: Reserve Bank of Australia support for teachers of Economics by Nicholas Ward, EBE NSW Director, Ryde Secondary College and Bronwyn Hession, EBE NSW Director
  • Understanding Social Enterprise with The Big Issue Classroom by Melissa Walsh and Sam Clark, The Big Issue Classroom
  • Vale Mike Horsley by Bronwyn Hession
  • Book Review – “Know Accounting Graphically” by Mike Darlow
  • Balance Charts: A New Way to Teach Accounting Basics by Mike Darlow
  • President’s Report to the 2016 EBE NSW Annual General Meeting
  • 2017 EBE NSW Economics Update Conference information

Back issues of the “The EBE Journal – Journal of the Economics and Business Educators NSW” are also available in the members section of this website and contain useful teaching and learning resources.

The EBE Journal — 2015


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal? Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 1 — 2015

Contents

  • President’s Report – Joe Alvaro
  • EBE NSW News
  • Economics and Business News Bites – Compiled by Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • Legal News Bites – Compiled by Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • Case Study: Marketing at Skydive the Beach and Beyond – Courtney Butler, Assistant Chief Operating Officer
  • Active Reading in Business Studies – Patricia Smith, Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney
  • The Impact of Income and Trade on the Environment – Dr Ying Liu, S P Jain School of Global Management
  • Nurturing entrepreneurship and financial literacy – The $20 Boss – Georgie Swan, Foundation for Young Australians
  • 20 Common Grammar & Spelling Errors in Student Written Responses – Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • Excursion to Maitland Gaol – Reflection and Worksheet – Mandy-Jane Doyle, Brigidine College, St Ives
  • Experiential Learning in Stage 5 Commerce: Running a Business and Promoting & Selling – Glenn Walker, Knox Grammar School
  • Cornell Note Taking Applied To Business Studies & Commerce – Nick Gliddon, Knox Grammar School
  • A Greek Tragedy? – John Lodewijks, S P Jain School of Global Management
  • Australian International School Teacher Profile – Ms Carmen Fitzpatrick
  • ASX Schools Sharemarket Game 1, 2015 – Volatile markets make a tough Game – Amanda Mior, ASX Sharemarket Game Coordinator
  • Winner – Angus Wither, Wesley College, South Perth, WA 2014 Division 1 (Individual) Australasian CPA Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition

The EBE Journal: Issue 2 — 2015

Contents

  • President’s Report
  • EBE NSW News
  • Economics and Business News Bites – Joe Alvaro
  • Legal News Bites – Joe Alvaro
  • CommBank Teaching Awards 2015 – Bronwyn Hession
  • Improving extended response writing in Stage Five Commerce using ALARM – Nick Ward and Max Woods
  • Protection and its Impact on the Australian Automobile Industry – Duc Nguyen and Tony Stokes
  • ASX Schools Sharemarket Game 2 2015 – Amanda Mior
  • Song of the Headmaster: Then & Now – Barry Collier
  • An Overview of the State of the Australian Economy in 2015 – Dr Anthony Stokes and Dr Sarah Wright
  • The importance of enterprise skills to prepare students for the new work order – Georgie Swan
  • Maximise student performance by teaching students how to deliver quality self and peer feedback – Matthew Bookallil
  • Commerce Assessment Task – Personal Finance Topic and Investing Topic – Commerce Department, Knox Grammar School
  • How many students studied HSC Economics, HSC Business Studies and HSC Legal Studies in 2015? – Joe Alvaro
  • Report on EBE NSW Field Trip for Teachers – CHOICE Lab and Testing Facility Guided Tour – Christopher Sassine
  • President’s Report to the 2015 Economics and Business Educators NSW Annual General Meeting
  • Economics and Business Educators NSW Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 June 2015

The EBE Journal — 2014


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal? Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 1 — 2014

Contents

  • President’s Report – Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • EBE NSW News
  • Submission to the 2014 Federal Government Review of the Australian Curriculum 11 (Part of the Coalition’s Students First Policy) by Economics and Business Educators NSW
  • Economics and Business News Bites – Compiled by Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • Legal News Bites – Compiled by Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • The Possibility Project – How do we get our students to think like an entrepreneur? – Kim Pearce, Teacher and Cofounder of the Possibility Project
  • The Challenge of Retaining Well Trained Nurses – Dr Stephen Whelan, Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Sydney
  • Australian Environmental Policies and Issues – Dr Anthony Stokes & Dr Sarah Wright, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield
  • Don’t Believe the Unemployment Rate? Here’s What’s Happening – Tim Robinson, Melbourne Institute at University of Melbourne
  • Abbott in India: The Asian Century won’t be all about China – Tim Harcourt, UNSW Australia Business School
  • Did Qantas Bet the House on the Wrong Planes? – Hamza Bendemra, Australian National University
  • An Unconventional Economist Wins 2013 National Teaching Excellence Award
  • An International Student Call for Pluralism in Economics
  • Business Studies – Putting Together a Case Study – Kate Dally, Head Teacher Social Sciences Birrong Girls High School
  • Business Studies HSC Marketing Assessment Task Based on a Specific Case Study/Business – Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • Year 9 Commerce Examination – Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • A – Z Survival Guide for the NSW Board Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards Legal Studies Syllabus – 2009 (Updated for 2014) – Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • Winner – 2013 Division 1 (Individual) Australasian CPA Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition
  • ASIC Media Release – Australian Students Score Well in PISA Financial Literacy Test but More to be Done: ASIC
  • Report on Attendance at NSW Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards (NSW BOSTES) Consistency of Teacher Judgement Workshop – Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • Establishing Control before Content in the Classroom – Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • Expert Panel: What Makes a Good Teacher – David Zyngier, Monash University, John Loughran, Monash University, Andrew Martin, University of New South Wales and Robyn Ewing, University of Sydney
  • HSC Exam Guide: Top 5 Tips on How to Blitz Your Humanities Exam – Duncan Ivison, Professor of Political Philosophy at University of Sydney
  • Why it’s Not Just Assessors Who Benefit from Multiple Choice(s) – Phillip Dawson, Lecturer in Learning & Teaching at Monash University
  • Australian International School Teacher Profile
  • 2014 (Game 1) ASX Schools Sharemarket Game – The Game 1 Winner’s Strategy and an Introduction to the New Improved Game

The EBE Journal: Issue 2 — 2014

Contents

  • President’s Report – Joe Alvaro
  • EBE NSW News
  • Economics and Business News Bites – Compiled by Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • Legal News Bites – Compiled by Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • Educating the Final Filter Lessons from Centro regarding Financial Literacy for Company Directors – Philip Ross – Associate Professor, School of Business, University of Western Sydney
  • Implications of the Global Financial Crisis – Dr Wilson Sy
  • The Problem with a Living Wage – James Morley, Professor of Economics and Associate Dean (Research) at UNSW Australia Business School
  • The effect of globalisation on secondary and tertiary business education – Trent Pohlmann BSc (Hons) MBA, Head of the S P Jain School of Global Management’s Sydney Campus
  • Economists’ Statement on Commonwealth Budgetary and Economic Priorities September 2014
  • Explaining the business world in HSC extended responses – Trish Weekes, Senior Lecturer in Literacy Education Australian Catholic University
  • Year 9 Commerce Travel Task – You be the travel agent – Kate Dally, Birrong Girls High School
  • Using Oral Presentations as an Assessment Technique with a Sample Assessment Task for the Commerce Topic – Employment Issues – Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • How many students studied HSC Economics, HSC Business Studies and HSC Legal Studies in 2014? – Joe Alvaro, Marist College North Shore
  • ASX Schools Sharemarket Game 2, 2014 – Amanda Mior, Sharemarket Game Coordinator
  • 2014 Commonwealth Bank Foundation Teaching Award Winners
  • Premier’s First State Super Financial Literacy Scholarship 2013 – Elena Gray, St Patrick’s Marist College, Dundas
  • Australian International School Teacher Profile – Don Sommerville, Australian International School, Hong Kong
  • President’s Report to the 2014 Economics and Business Educators NSW Annual General Meeting (1 December 2014)
  • Economics and Business Educators NSW Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 June 2014

The EBE Journal — 2013


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal? Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 1 — 2013

Contents

  • President’s Report
  • Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis – John Lodewijks
  • The Economics of Obesity – John Lodewijks
  • After the Boom: Where will growth come from? – Roy Green
  • Can ‘Green Jobs’ lead to employment sustainability? – Ron Kelly
  • Legal Influences on Business: Closing the Gender Gap – Nick Clark
  • Skills and Calculations in HSC Economics – Dr Anthony Stokes
  • Monash University Crisis Management Policy – Louie Traikovski
  • Holiday a lucky break for Year 9 student playing the 2013 ASX Sharemarket Game 1 – Amanda Moir
  • International School Teacher Profile – Gregory Verdon, Australian International School Singapore
  • Response to consultation on the draft Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) Draft Years 5–10 Australian Curriculum: Economics and Business from Economics and Business Educators NSW (EBE NSW) (May 2013)
  • Response to consultation on the draft Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) Draft Years 5–10 Australian Curriculum: Economics and Business from Economics and Business Educators NSW (EBE NSW) (May 2013) – Survey Response
  • Submission by Economics and Business Educators NSW to the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) Draft Years 3–10 Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship (May 2013)
  • EBE NSW Industry Visit for Teachers – Fairfax Printers Plant Tour

EBE Journal Issue 2 2013The EBE Journal: Issue 2 — 2013

Contents

  • President’s Report – Joe Alvaro
  • EBE NSW News
  • Economics and Business News Bites – Compiled by Joe Alvaro
  • Legal News Bites – Compiled by Joe Alvaro
  • International School Teacher Profile – Rowan Peterson
  • Growth, Happiness and the Environment – Professor John Lodewijks
  • Media Release: Commonwealth Bank Foundation celebrates outstanding teachers
  • Q&A with 2013 Commonwealth Bank Foundation Teaching Award winner, Nadine Saul
  • Q&A with 2013 Commonwealth Bank Foundation Teaching Award winner, Rebecca Rounsley
  • Business Management Decision-making Exercise – Louie Traikovski
  • Does demand for cigarettes create supply, or does supply create demand? And what should we do about it? – Professor Suzan Burton
  • Commerce Group Assessment Task for “Global Links” – Joe Alvaro
  • Human Resources Business Studies Activity – Kate Dally
  • Hots Shots Cold Cases (Profile on Mark Tedeschi – Crown Prosecutor, photographer and author) – Caroline Baum
  • The Australian government’s Direct Action policy for meeting carbon emission reduction targets – Dr Neil Perry
  • ASX Schools Sharemarket Game 2, 2013 winners: girls take top spots – Amanda Mior
  • Krugman on the GFC and Austerity – Professor John Lodewijks
  • CPA Australia Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition 2012 National Division 1 Winner – Trip to Shanghai – Matthew Bennett
  • Are we moving towards a cashless society – or simply less cash? – Steve Worthington
  • Will your next phone be Fair Trade? – Robbie Fordyce and Luke van Ryn
  • President’s Report to the 2013 Economics and Business Educators NSW Annual General Meeting (21 October 2013)
  • Economics and Business Educators NSW Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2013
  • EBE NSW Professional Development Event – “Teaching the Preliminary course (Year 11) in Business Studies, Economics or Legal Studies for the first time?” – 24 February 2014

The EBE Journal — 2012


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal? Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 1 — 2012

Contents

  • President’s Report
  • BEA Conference 2012 Program & Grants
  • Financial Guidance on the Money
  • Two Unresolved Issues Emanating from the Global Financial Crisis
  • Income Inequality and the American Dilemma
  • Crossword — Examination Verbs
  • Word Search — Accounting and Finance
  • Fair Trade Exercise
  • A-Z Survival Guide For The Teaching of the Board of Studies NSW Legal Studies Syllabus (Updated for 2012)
  • Games that Enhance Learning in Economics
  • International Teacher Profile
  • Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition:
    – Winning entry 2011
    – Judges comments
    – Entry form for 2012
  • Submission to the Australian Government — White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century
  • Congratulations to Economics and Business Educators NSW Director, Lyn Kirkby
  • Crossword solution

EBE Journal Issue 2 2012The EBE Journal: Issue 2 — 2012

Contents

  • President’s Report
  • An Overview of the State of the Australian Economy in 2012
  • Ross Gittins: Sydney Morning Herald Economics Editor
  • NBER Reporter 2012 Number 2: Research Summary: Time Use
  • Retuning Australia’s Economic Debate
  • Offshore Outsourcing
  • Creating a Desire for Students to Engage with Financial Literacy
  • 2012 CPA Australia — Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition National Winner — Division One
  • 2011 NSW Premier’s First State Super Financial Literacy Teacher Scholarship
  • Media Release: Commonwealth Bank Foundation Recognises Inspirational Teachers From Across Australia
  • Economics and Business Educators NSW Spotlight on Maria Plessas, Winner — Commonwealth Bank Foundation Teaching Award
  • Economics and Business Educators NSW Spotlight on Simone Hirsch, Winner — Commonwealth Bank Foundation Teaching Award
  • 2013 ASX Schools Sharemarket Game
  • International Teacher Profile
  • Cambridge Business Studies Preliminary Textbook Review
  • Cambridge Business Studies HSC Texbook Review
  • Website Review ‘theconversation.edu.au’
  • Cambridge Legal Studies Preliminary Textbook Review
  • Public Relations Website Exercise
  • Dialogic Concept Mapping for HSC Business Studies
  • Rule of Law Critical to Consumer Law
  • Submission by Business Educators Australasia Inc to the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Draft Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Economics and Business (2012)
  • Submission by Economics and Business Educators NSW to the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Draft Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship (June 2012)
  • Submission by Economics and Business Educators NSW to the NSW Government “Great Teaching, Inspired Learning” Discussion Paper (July 2012)
  • President’s Report to the 2012 Economics and Business Educators NSW Annual General Meeting
  • Economics and Business Educators NSW Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30th June 2012

The EBE Journal — 2011


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal? Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 1 — 2011

Contents
President’s Report
National Update
Amendments to the NSW Economics Syllabus
First State Financial Literacy Scholarship
Website Review: The Rule of Law Institute Australia
Understanding Money
Border Books Newspaper Activity
Safe Online shopping
Advice on Consumer Issues
Economic Literacy
Resources

The EBE Journal: Issue 2 — 2011

Contents
President’s Report
“Let the consultation begin!”
Annual Conference Feedback and Discussion
Providing Feedback
Globalisation Essay questions … case study related
Economic HSC Practice Questions
Our Economy Sysnthesis Revision Task Sheet
The Business cycle and and changes in the economy
Business Planning Assessment Task
Sydney Morning Herald Article
Fairtrade Exercise
Current Issues in Advertising
Using Oral Presentations as an Assessment Technique

The EBE Journal — 2010


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal? Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 1 — 2010

Contents
President’s Report
The performance of the Australian Economy in the face of the global financial crisis — Dr Anthony Stokes
Fair Work Australia – the recent changes to Australia’s Industrial Relations system — Dr Sarah Wright
Helping our Economics students to write Extended Responses — Lyn Kirkby
Structuring an Extended Response
Economics – their similarities and differences
NSW PYOE competition 2009 — Winners
Have you made these changes to your School Assessment?
Resources

The EBE Journal: Issue 2 — 2010

Contents
President’s Report
Extended Response Answers Assessing Structure
Maximise Your Marks — Ian Biddle
Analysing a Business Report — Darren Taylor
Linking Case Studies into the Parts of the Question — Ian Biddle
Modifying a Commerce Test for Learning Support Students — Anne Layman
Special Test – Year 9 Commerce — MLC School
What’s All This Funny Business? Australian Literary Review, July 10 — Professor P Shergold
A-Z NSW Legal Syllabus Studies – Survival Guide — Joe Alvaro
Resources – Keeping Up to Date — Doug Cave

The EBE Journal — 2009


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal? Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 1 — 2009

Contents
President’s Report – Lyn Kirkby
President’s Report to the 2008 Annual General Meeting – Bronwyn Hession
Premier’s ABN AMRO Business Studies, Economics Scholarship – Jennifer Harding
A non legal mechanism for women Women’s Legal Services – Joe Alvaro
Internet Website Activity – Joe Alvaro
Lesson Plan – Year 11 Business Studies – P Manocchio
The Importance of Financial Literacy – Anne Layman
Year 9 Commerce Assessment – Gavin Russell
Business Education in Australia’s curriculum – Business Educators Australasia Inc.

 

The EBE Journal: Issue 2 — 2009

Contents
President’s message
The marketing of historic tourist sites in the UK & France – Catherine Gray
Global Business Briefs – Catherine Gray
Success One – Aaron Butler
Year 11 Business Studies Excursion – Trish Smith
Global Financial Crisis – Gary Bell
Policital Economy – Frank Stilwell
You be the Profiler – Lyn Kirkby
Year 11 Economics Synthesis Task – Lyn Kirkby
Getting to Grips with the Economy Seminar – Whitlam Institute & UWS School of Economics & Finance

The EBE Journal — 2008


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal? Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 1 — 2008

Contents
President’s Report – Bronwyn Hession
EBE’s Financial Statements
State of the Economy – Ross Gittins
Case Study – Globalisation – Kerry Newman
The business of teaching – Business Educators Australasia (BEA) Conference 9 – 11 July 2008
Interactive Whiteboards
Accreditation for professional competence – Kim Jackson
Integrating consumer and financial literacy across the curriculum from primary to year 10
Twelve tricky questions about government elections and voting that could be asked in your classrooms – Joe Alvaro

The EBE Journal: Issue 2 — 2008

Contents
Editorial notes
Professional Teaching Standards: Beyond Standard Bearing
An investigation of pedagogy – lesson study as applies to Quality Teaching
Listening to students
Deeds not Words: Learning from the Lesson Study Project
Master classes – building on the ‘Lesson study’ approach in a Sydney school
Lesson Study as formative assessment in secondary schools
Learning to Manage: Managing to Learn. Taking professional standards into practice – AGQTP

 

The EBE Journal: Issue 3 — 2008

Contents
President’s message
Abstraction to application – Luke Slattery
Hip pocket Financial Education workshop: YWCA NSW – Gillian Cook
E Commerce & Marketing – Greg Hannelly
Trip to Shanghai: CPA Australia Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition (2007) – Maria Koulianos  & Jayant Prakash
Premier’s KPMG Business Education in Australia Scholarship – Victoria Huxtable
Resources for Teachers of Business Studies – Kate Donnelly

The EBE Journal — 2007


The EBE Journal is available online and gives members relevant articles that can be printed, edited or amended to suit your teaching needs. The EBE journal is included with your membership.
Back issues of the EBE Journal are being added to progressively to the member’s area.
EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal.
Do you have an article or an idea for our journal? Please email our editor at journal@ebe.nsw.edu.au.

The EBE Journal: Issue 3 — 2007

Contents
President’s Report — Bronwyn Hession
PTC Outstanind Professional Service Awards
2006 EBE NSW Report to Business Educators Australiasia (BEA) — Lyn Kirkby
Crossword Puzzle — Gae York
What is Workchoices? — Andrew Skehan
Milton Friedman (1912-2006) — Tim Riley
Preliminary Economics Program & Register — Gae York
HSC Legal Studies Revision – Crime — Gae York
Webquests — Richard Armitage & Anne-Marie Parry
Using ICT Commerce in the financial literacy programme — Michael Drennan