All CPAP presenters are experts in the relevant field, with years of combined experience as teachers and examination assessors.
Importantly, CPAP requires that each of its presenters have ‘recent‘ examination assessing experience ‘in the Unit of Study they are presenting’. These strict requirements ensures that recent trends are identified and presenters are expertly placed to guide students through a program designed to enhance examination performance.
CPAP PRESENTERS/Q&A PANELISTS
Accounting
Darrell Cruse has worked in public practice as a Chartered Accountant for over a decade before moving into education. He lectured at RMIT and coordinated their Masters in Professional Accounting; he was also a Focus Session Facilitator for the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Darrell taught at Parade College for twelve years and has taught at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School since 2017. Darrell has also presented for VCTA and written for Compak. He was part of the VCAA review panel that produced the current VCE Accounting Study Design and has assessed exams for the VCAA for a number of years. Darrell is currently the chief writer of CPAP Accounting assessment tasks and practice examinations,
Business Management
Matt Richardson (B.A., Dip Ed) is an experienced teacher of Business Management and is currently the Humanities Leader and a senior Business Management teacher at Ballarat High School. Matt was a member of the VCAA Business Management Review Panel and has over 10 years of experience as a Business Management examination assessor. He has also sat on the VCE Business Management exam panel as an Examination Vetter. Matt has presented PD sessions for Business Management teachers at Comview, the annual VCTA conference, and has contributed articles to the VCTA’s journal Compak. Matt is the co-author of ‘Key Concepts in VCE Business Management Units 3&4’ and is also the co-author of the CPAP Business Management Quarterly Updates.
Economics
Romeo Salla completed Honours and Masters degrees in Commerce (Economics major) at the University of Melbourne before moving to Canberra to work as an Economist with the Commonwealth Department of Treasury. After a few years he was promoted within the federal bureaucracy to the position of Senior Economist with the Industry Commission (now Productivity Commission). Since 1996 he has been employed as a Senior Teacher and Head of Faculty at large private schools in Melbourne, and currently teaches VCE and IB Economics at Geelong Grammar School. He has held positions of responsibility with the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) as an examination assessor since 1996 and was the long standing Economics editor on the VCTA website (ComNET). Mr Salla is also the founder of the websitewww.economicstutor.com.au as well as the popular smartphone app ‘economicstutor’, has contributed to various publications and regularly presents to economics teachers and students on behalf of the VCTA. Romeo is the author of the CPAP Study Guide to VCE Economics, co-author of Monumental Humanities 3 (Cambridge), and co-author of the VCE Economics texts ‘Economic Fundamentals in Australia’ and ‘Economics: from the ground up’. He is also the writer of CPAP Economics assessment tasks and the practice examinations.
Global Politics
Gus Humphries majored in History and Politics at Monash and completed his Masters of Education at Flinders University. He is currently a Senior Humanities Teacher at Caulfield Grammar School, specialising in Global Politics. He has been assessing Global Politics examinations for VCAA for over 10 years, including as Assistant Chief Assessor, and was a writer of the VCE Global Politics Study Design. Gus presents frequently for various organisations on Global Politics to both students and teachers and is well placed to understand the elements required in responses to excel in the Examination.
Legal Studies
Megan Blake (LLB, BA (Melb), Dip Ed, Postgrad Dip Arts (Research), PhD (Monash)) completed a law degree at the University of Melbourne and worked for a number of years with private law firms and large corporations. Since joining the teaching profession, Megan has been a teacher of VCE legal studies and has been actively involved in Legal Studies education. She had positions of responsibility with the VCAA, most recently as a member of the panel designing the new Legal Studies ‘study design,’ and she has had a number of years experience as a VCE Legal Studies examination assessor. Megan also has several years experience presenting student lectures and workshops and is a prolific writer of assessment materials, for both CPAP and other organisations. She is also the author of Legal Fundamentals in Australia (A text for students of VCE Legal Studies Units 3&4), the CPAP Study Guide to VCE Legal Studies, the CPAP Legal Studies Quarterly Updates as well as web-based materials published by Jacaranda.