» ACS Judith Leeson Award for Excellence in Career Teaching
» How Indigenous students are benefiting from digital curriculum resources
» Assessment for Learning: National Award Finalist
» Step by Step - pre-order your copy today
» Tricky Kids - freeing their potential
» Breaking down barriers in Victorian schools
» Improving adolescent literacy
» Curriculum Leadership Journal
ACS Judith Leeson Award for Excellence in Career Teaching
Sponsored by Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, the 2009 ACS Judith Leeson Award is open to primary and secondary teachers involved in delivering a career education program in 2009.
Nominations must be made by principals, and open 5 October, closing 16 November. Email acsaward@curriculum.edu.au or phone Cameron Picton on (03) 9207 9600. More information is available shortly from the ACS website.
How Indigenous students are benefiting from digital curriculum resources
A recent forum in Melbourne brought together teachers of Indigenous students, Aboriginal education unit representatives and contact liaison officers from the states and territories to discuss the use of digital curriculum resources. The forum explored recent research and shared experiences about how teachers are using digital curriculum resources to improve outcomes and embed Indigenous perspectives across the curriculum.
Teachers showcased the resources they used in their programs and highlighted effective ways of integrating the resources into classrooms. More...
Assessment for Learning: National Award Finalist
The Assessment for Learning (AfL) project, undertaken by Curriculum Corporation on behalf of all Australian education ministers, has resulted in a significant online resource, which in turn is supported by a suite of DVDs, comprising
- Putting it all together
- Effective feedback
- Peer feedback and student self-assessment
- Strategic questioning.
The AfL DVD resource suite has now been selected as a finalist in the Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) awards for Best Instructional/Training Resource. Award winners will be announced at a gala presentation on Friday 23 October 2009.
Step by Step - pre-order your copy today
Respected educator Toni Glasson has teamed up with experienced classroom teacher Robyn Adams to deliver Step by Step, a practical guide to effective implementation of the assessment for learning strategies first explored in Improving Student Achievement.
This much-anticipated new resource contains lesson-by-lesson chapters which describe in detail how to implement assessment for learning strategies (learning intentions, success criteria, strategic questioning, peer and teacher feedback and student self-assessment). Written for middle and upper years primary teachers, the information has been set within the popular primary theme of 'Bushrangers', although the strategies can be used in the context of any learning and teaching unit. Includes sample units, practical lesson plans, worksheets and examples of student work. More…
Tricky Kids - freeing their potential
This insightful book has been helping parents and teachers learn to manage challenging children for years. It does so by showing parents and teachers how to recognise the needs of children with strong, wilful personalities and help them develop the positive life habits, including an awareness of others, dealing with anger, staying focussed and forming true friendships, that will help them lead more successful lives.
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Breaking down barriers in Victorian schools
Community Services Minister, Lisa Neville, and Education Minister, Bronwyn Pike, launched the Bar None Community Awareness Kit for Schools at North Melbourne Primary School last Thursday.
The kit is designed to assist in breaking down barriers towards people with a disability and includes curriculum units for prep to year 8 students that are linked to the Victorian Essential Learning Standards, a professional development module, a teacher information booklet and a DVD featuring real life stories about students with a disability. It will be distributed to government, independent and Catholic primary and secondary schools and government funded kindergartens statewide over the next few days.
For more info or to obtain a copy of the kit visit www.officefordisability.vic.gov.au
Improving adolescent literacy
Are you a secondary teacher who wants to make the most of the limited amount of instructional time you have with your students? Adolescent Literacy, Field Tested brings together in once place teaching practices that have been shown to create significant literacy gains for secondary students and highlights the qualities of highly effective secondary teaching practices. This book is your opportunity to learn from the experiences of exemplary "frontline" educators in the field of adolescent literacy. More...
Curriculum Leadership Journal
This week Curriculum Leadership features an article on Digital Divas, a single-sex elective offered to female Year 8 students at Brentwood Secondary School in Glen Waverley, in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. First trialled in 2008, the program continued this year, and has been oversubscribed by girls wanting to enrol.
