BOOK NOW – LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE!
The IEU Environment Conference is back! Join fellow IEU members at Taronga Zoo for a day of Wild Learning. This event is an engaging professional learning experience that will help you get your students outdoors and reconnecting purposefully with nature.
- Friday 7 August 2026, 9am-3pm
- Taronga Zoo, Cammeraigal Country
- Members $100 / Non-members $150 (includes morning tea and lunch from Kalico Indigenous Catering)
Discover how to nurture curiosity, critical thinking, creativity and care for the natural world through meaningful, student-centred learning.
Whether you teach in early childhood, primary or secondary settings, Wild Learning offers meaningful ideas you can take back to your classroom.
Book today! Strictly limited to 50 participants.
Highlights:
- Sessions and workshops covering nature journaling, enrichment design, real-world problem solving, practical methods for guiding students to collect, sort, record and analyse real data, and fostering a deeper understanding of innovation in the natural world.
- Hands-on sessions to equip you with practical strategies to inspire students to think like designers, scientists, and conservation problem-solvers.
- Build your confidence of outdoor learning to empower students to appreciate, understand and protect the natural world.
- Gain knowledge, strategies, and classroom resources to guide students through designing meaningful enrichment solutions that support animal behaviour, welfare, and wellbeing.
- Leave equipped with fieldwork strategies, classroom-ready activities, and the knowledge to help students collect and interpret authentic data that connects them deeply to the natural world.
Professional Development
This PD addresses standards: 2.1.2, 2.4.2, 3.3.2, 3.4.2, 6.2.2, 7.4.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
- 7.4.2 Participate in professional and community networks and forums to broaden knowledge and improve practice.
- 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.
- 2.4.2 Provide opportunities for students to develop understanding of and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and languages.
- 3.4.2 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem-solving, and critical thinking.
- 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning.
- 6.2.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities.
- 6.4.2 Undertake professional learning programs designed to address identified student learning needs.