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What is Wild PD?
Engaging, curriculum-aligned professional learning designed to inspire confidence, spark curiosity, and support your teaching of Australian wildlife and conservation topics.
Held once each school term, these dynamic, hands-on sessions are designed to inspire, equip, and energize educators across all learning levels.
Each workshop explores a new topic linked to the Victorian Curriculum and teacher professional standards, featuring up-close encounters with real Australian animals, expert insights from wildlife professionals, and ready-to-use classroom resources.
Whether you're exploring ecosystems, animal adaptations, or tackling common student (and teacher!) fears around reptiles, Wild PD blends expert knowledge with practical tools and activities you can use right away.
What will I gain from Wild PD Sessions?
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Curriculum Lesson Ideas
Identify links to Science, Ethical Capabilities, Sustainability and more, across F–10, with alignment to AITSL Standards. Receive a certificate recognising your hours and alignment with AITSL Standards.
Teaching Confidence
Strengthen your confidence in teaching complex topics like biodiversity, adaptation, and conservation with clarity.
Practical Pedagogy
Access ready-to-use, curriculum-aligned lesson plans and resources that incorporate values-based, critical, and inquiry-led strategies to deepen student engagement and understanding.
Connect with Experts & Educators
Grow your network of conservation driven educators from around Victoria to share ideas, passion, and learnings.
Ask questions, share ideas, and join a community of like-minded educators passionate about wildlife, STEM, and inquiry-based learning.
Ecological Understanding
Understand the ecological role of some of our critical native species and their conservation significance
Real-world Examples
Learn directly from wildlife experts and use real animal case studies, videos, and classroom-ready resources to make science come alive.
Reptile Encounters would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land, the people of the Kulin Nation, who have never ceded sovereignty. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.