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Conference 2008
The Kitchen Garden Classroom: Educating Children for a Healthy Future
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation hosted its inaugural national conference on Monday 13 October, 2008 at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne. The conference was attended by over 400 people from across Australia, representing primary schools, community gardening, community health initiatives, tertiary and research institutions and participating Victorian schools.
Tailored for the different interests of these groups, sessions followed four themes: The Program in Practice, Shared Learning, Program Sustainability and Learning for Life and included keynote addresses, panels, a range of workshops and display Kitchen and Garden classes. Below are the resulting conference papers, organised under each session. To download them, please just click on the pdf links underneath the descriptions of each session.
Conference papers 2008 - The Kitchen Garden Classroom
Stephanie Alexander Keynote Address
Session A The Program in Practice
A1 Getting a Kitchen Garden Program off the Ground
This session charted the development of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program in a school, using the 27 Programs originally running in Victoria as models.
Session A1 Getting a Kitchen Garden Program Off the Ground - Introduction Presentation by Ange Barry
A2 A Make-believe Kitchen Class with Stephanie
Working with typical dishes cooked in the kitchen garden classroom, Stephanie Alexander examined what can be taught to children, how it can be taught, the challenges, possible links with the classroom and cooking at home.
Session A2 Make Believe Kitchen Class with Stephanie
Session A2 Make Believe Kitchen Class with Stephanie - Stephanie's Recipe Lists
A3 Fruit Growing in School Gardens
Dr Louis Glowinski is author of The Complete Book of Fruit Growing in Australia. Amongst other associations, he is a member of the Rare Fruit Council of Australia and the International Rare Fruit Council. Dr Glowinski is a General Practitioner in Sunshine, Victoria.
Session A3 Fruit Growing in School Gardens - by Louis Glowinski
A4 Learning Standards and the Kitchen Garden Classroom
Curriculum planning: integrating children’s learning in the garden and kitchen into State-wide curriculum frameworks, such as Victorian Essential Learning Standards VELS.
Session A4 DEECD Presentation
Session A4 Learning Standards and the Kitchen Garden Classroom - Garden Class Activity
Session B Shared Learning
B2 Kitchen Garden Design
The Kitchen Garden Program is changing the built landscape of schools as we know it. ABC Radio National’s
‘By Design’ presenter, Alan Saunders, talks with architect Freda Thornton, Professor Philip Goad from the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning at the University of Melbourne and Environmental Designer Derek Ashby about issues of design and beauty in school kitchens and gardens. To coincide with the conference University of Melbourne students staged an exhibition of drawings of prefabricated kitchen classrooms from the Masters project ‘Potable/Portable’
Session B2 Kitchen Garden Design - Potable_Portable Introduction
Session B2 Kitchen Garden Design - Potable_Portable Presentation by Philip Goad
B3 What will we do next week?
A facilitated workshop in which SAKG Program Kitchen Specialists and Garden Specialists shared their best teaching ideas and activities with each other.
Session B3 What Will We Do Next Week - Notes
B4 Disciplinary Teaching and Learning Ideas
A round-table discussion and sharing of teaching activities and ideas that draw on knowledge gained in the Kitchen Garden Program. The session included snapshot presentations from classroom teachers in the fields of mathematics, science, language & literacy and creative arts.
Session B4 Disciplinary Teaching and Learning Ideas - Integrating ICT and Web 2 - by Foster Primary
Session B5 Kitchen Garden Program Children Feedback Session
Session C Program Sustainability
C1 Evaluation: the Impact ofthe Program
Short outline of the long-term evaluation project currently being undertaken through The University of Melbourne’s McCaughey Centre and Deakin University, to assess the impact of the Kitchen Garden Program on the school, children and families. This was followed by a panel discussion in which a principal, a parent and two students gave their impressions of the impact of the Program in their schools.
Session C1 Evaluation - The Impact of the Program - Parents Responses to the Program - by Kate Seddon
Session C1 Evaluation - The Impact of the Program - Presentation by Dr Lisa Gibbs
C3 Taking the Program Home
What happens at home is a significant aspect of the long-term benefits of the Program. A discussion session for Kitchen Specialists to share ways of encouraging families of the school to nurture the enthusiasm and new skills their children have gained through the Kitchen Garden Program in daily family life.
Session C3 Taking the Program Home - Notes from the Discussion
C4 Summer Planning in the Garden
A discussion session for Garden Specialists to share ideas about planting for summer, maintaining the garden over the holidays and using the summer produce.
Session C4 Summer Planning in the Garden
C5 Making the Program Work in Your School
A discussion session for Program Coordinators new and old, and interested members of school communities, dealing with organisational issues including building the Program into the annual implementation plan, timetabling, community building and documenting.
Session C5 Making the Program Work in Your School - Introduction by Jude Sullivan
Session C5 Making the Program Work in Your School - Notes on Presentation by Jude Sullivan
Session C5 Making the Program Work in Your School - PowerPoint Presentation by Jude Sullivan
Session C5 Making the Program Work in Your school - Presentation by Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative
Session D Learning for Life
D3 Seed Saving in the Garden Classroom: Theory and Practice
Why does some second-generation rocket grow back in an entirely different form? This session will include an outline of the principles of seed-to-seed food gardens, their place in preserving genetic lines, and will suggest some good seed-sowing and successional planting practices in the kitchen garden.
Session D3 Seed Saving in the Garden Classroom - presentation by Simon Rickard
D4 Volunteers and How to Find Them
Some case studies taken from country, outer urban,and inner urban schools to help all schools in building their volunteer assistance in a Kitchen Garden Program.
Session D4 Volunteers and How to Find Them - SAKGF Fact Sheet
Session D4 Volunteers and How To Find Them - SAKGF Presentation
