International School Counsellors' Series 2024

Series 2024

In our second year of the Study Australia School Counsellors’ Series, we once again brought together international school careers counsellors, principals, teachers and student advisers from around the world. 

Thank you for your participation in the live events, engagement with our speakers through Q&A and take-up of the opportunity to watch and share the recordings. 

Both sessions, held in March and November 2024, are now available to watch below. Or you can view the sessions from 2023 here. 

Session 1 replay 

Connecting with Gen Alpha

Speaker

Jacqueline Raposo from Hybrid is an award-winning Director of Marketing with 15+ years working in the media production industry across continents.

Session summary

Generation Alpha students (born 2010 onwards) have been exposed to digital devices from day one. They’re now content consumers, curators and creators all at once. International Gen Alpha learners are building communities outside of traditional places, such as schools or national borders. They’re spending more time in digital worlds that they create and control, forming transformative bonds, from Singapore to Santiago, through digital interaction and connection.

This session looks ahead at what’s next for Gen Alpha: AI tools, in-game immersion, interactive placements, digital communities and the power that comes with being authentic.

You will gain valuable insights into this generation’s worldview, including an understanding of what ‘communities’ mean to our students, how to align with wider Gen Alpha narratives, and how to develop new strategies for engaging with evolving generational behaviours.

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Session 2 replay 

Fuelling the Future: Promoting Good Nutrition and Healthy Eating Habits in Children and Adolescents.

Speaker

Dr. Sze-Yen Tan is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and a Registered Nutritionist with extensive teaching and research experience in the US, Singapore and Australia.

Currently, he is the International Lead – Nutrition and Senior Lecturer in Nutrition Science at Deakin University. He is also an active researcher, where his research focuses on finding effective dietary strategies, such as nut supplementation, that promote healthy ageing and combat obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. 

Session summary

In this session of the Study Australia International School Counsellor Series, Dr. Tan shares his expertise on fostering healthy eating habits in children and adolescents, equipping you with the knowledge to help your students thrive. For those with a focus on careers counselling, this session will also offer an introduction to the field of nutrition and dietetics. 

Further comments from Dr. Tan

Following our first session, our guest speaker, Dr. Tan, shared a response to a live questions that we did not have time to answer in the session. Please see his response below.

With so much pesticide spray, how can we be sure our kids are getting the right food, especially in third world countries?

Pesticides play a role in maintaining food production to feed the population. However, they may be harmful to health. If this is a major concern, choosing organic produce may be an option, but it is often a costly option and variety/accessibility of organic foods may be limited too. We know that fruit and vegetable intake in general is already very low (<10% of people meet their recommended daily intake), so we need to make sure that the concern about pesticide do not worsen the already low intake. Instead, we can educate people about choosing the right type of fruit and vegetables, and how to prepare them.

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