Monday 28 July 2014

ACT Meeting #3 - Year Seven Transition

Next Wednesday, the 6th August, is the third of the Australian Curriculum Talks, which will be held in the Kalgoorlie Primary School library from 3.30-4.30pm.


Whilst the content and discussions will be relevant to all teacher and administrators, we have a special Year Seven Transition flavour to this event. 
  • Mr David Bryant, HOLA English at KBCHS, will share a 15-20 min presentation that will briefly cover these topics:
         - context of KBCHS
         - where KBCHS is at and where we're going with AC and Y7 planning/implementation
         - why a whole school approach to teaching literacy was developed and steps taken to implement it
        - share the strategy
        - quick Q&A 
  •  Informal discussion around the literacy demands of students in upper primary school and early high school. 
  • General sharing of tasks and activities which support the teaching of literacy skills across the curriculum. 
Please register via the PLI or contact Mel for further information. 

Tuesday 1 July 2014

Updated ACARA work sample portfolios

Updated and improved annotated student work sample portfolios have been posted on the Australian Curriculum website!

Each portfolio is an example of evidence of student learning in relation to the achievement standard. The portfolios indicate quality that is satisfactory, above satisfactory and below satisfactory. The annotations are key when viewing the portfolio as they describe the quality of what is demonstrated.

The portfolios are available on the Australian Curriculum website on each of the learning area pages for English, Maths, Science and History.

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/english/Curriculum/F-10

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/mathematics/Curriculum/F-10

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/science/Curriculum/F-10

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/humanitiesandsocialsciences/history/Curriculum/F-10


Monday 30 June 2014

Australian Curriculum Talks (ACT)

This term we hosted two ACT Meetings, providing teachers in the Kalgoorlie area with the opportunity to learn about, discuss and share experiences related to the implementation of the Australian Curriculum.

The first ACT Meeting was held on the fourteenth of May and was very well attended by 45 teachers, Heads of Learning Areas, curriculum leaders, deputies and principals. The focus of the first meeting was "Putting the puzzle together" and determining direction for future meetings. Participants revised some key messages about the Australian Curriculum and discussed how the elements of the curriculum work together. Teachers shared strategies for effectively using the year level statements, content descriptions, elaborations, achievement standards and work sample portfolios to plan, teach and assess using the West Australian Curriculum English.

The second ACT Meeting was held on the 25th of June with an emphasis on punctuation. Twenty participants discussed the expectations of the Australian Curriculum in regards to the explicit teaching of punctuation and grammar, shared resources to support teachers and discussed best practice teaching strategies.

Next term, in week three, our ACT Meeting has a whole school and Year seven transition flavour; the high school and some local primary schools are going to share their whole school Literacy plans and teachers will participate in some fun activities to develop shared understanding of the curriculum.