The PTCWA Outstanding Professional Service Awards recognise an individual member’s outstanding professional contribution to education in Western Australia, made in a voluntary capacity to their professional teachers’ association. This provides the opportunity for each financial member association of PTCWA to consider the work of their members and nominate a worthy recipient. The Professional Teaching Council of Western Australia has as its objective the promotion of professionalism in teaching through an enhancement of the work of professional education associations. It provides a wider context for the work of professional associations through facilitation of networking and communication between individual associations whilst providing a forum for the discussion of broad educational thought and current issues.

Congratulations to all 2024 Outstanding Professional Service Award recipients:

Association	Nominee
Australian Association of Environmental Educators WA Chapter	Sarah Stevenson
Australian Association of Special Education	Julie Halvorson
​Association for Philosophy in Schools WA	Kirstie Fitzgerald
Australian Society for Music Education	Rhys Sutherland
​Business Educators of Western Australia	Anne Rees ​
​​Careers Education Association of Western Australia	Shirley Parer ​
​Chinese Language Teachers’ Association of Western Australia	Jinwen Zhou
​Design and Technology Teachers’ Association	Peter Pooley
Economics Teachers’ Association of Western Australia	Andrea Fitzpatrick
English Teachers’ Association of Western Australia	Jenny Miraudo​
Early Years in Education (WA)	Pene Irvine ​
Geographical Association of Western Australia	Rosemary Cawley ​
​Home Economics Institute of Australia (WA)	Jennifer Rule ​
Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia	Jason Boron ​
Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Western Australia	Colleen Barclay ​
Science Teachers’ Association of Western Australia	Lauren Pascoe ​
Teachers Association of German Western Australia	Stacey Valli ​
Western Australian Association of Teacher Assistants	Margaret Bulsing
Western Australian Association of Teachers of Italian	Anne Monisse
WA Education Support Principals and Administrators Association	Natalie Hatton ​
Western Australian Institute for Educational Research	Jette Oksis & Dr Paul Gardner
Western Australian Modern Greek Language Teachers’ Association	Maria Svarnou ​
Western Australian School Library Association	Anne-Marie Musca ​
Westralian Indonesian Language Teachers’ Association	Lorna Colquhoun ​

​Nominations for 2025 awards are now open.

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