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THE NEW QCE

Queensland Certificate of Education

WELCOME

ECP Night Tuesday 21st May

Ministerial Review 2013 ACER review in 2014 OP 1992 ACARA

WHY

About ext xternal assessment

• In the new system, the assessment program for all General subjects

will include external assessment that is:

• common to all schools
• administered under the same conditions, at the same time and on the

same day

• developed and marked by the QCAA according to a commonly applied

marking scheme.

will ill be held ld on the same day y in in all ll schools ls across the State for each subje ject over 16 days in in Term 4 Year 12.

External Assessment

How els lse will ill these changes affect students at Mir irani i SHS?

• All students must keep a record of all classwork and homework (Yr 10, 11 & 12

academic integrity)

• Year 11 is critical! Students develop the skills and knowledge to apply in Yr 12. By

QCAA policy teachers can only give very limited feedback on assessment in Yr 12

• Students who miss a Yr 12 assessment will receive no credit for that subject
• Yr 12 students must get a “MEDICAL REPORT” in the QCAA format if they are sick for

assessment

• BABY TIME (It’s only school) is over. Student MUST have developed independent

study skills and responsibility by the start of Year 11!

IT will not be possible to change/swap subjects in SENIOR. CORRECT SUBJECT SELECTION IN YEAR 10 IS CRITICAL

SCHOOL RESPONSES

BYOX

Students need to be able to:

• TYPE –Use Microsoft Office
• Navigate the Mirani On-line Learning Environment (MOLE, Yr 7,8, 11

and 12)

• Know how to create folders and work in the windows environment
• Know how to surf the web effectively and assess the value and

credibility of the information found

• Use learning objects
• Text books and support resources are on-line

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Today’s Learning Goals

Learning Goal: Success Criteria:

You will have a shared understanding of our whole school approach to explicit teaching of cognitive verbs

You will be able to:  Define what a cognitive verb is  Identify the cognitive verbs in syllabus documents  Plan for writing success with an explicit teaching sequence  Design a cognitive organiser for an assessment item or lesson you will teach

ALL YEAR LEVELS ALL LESSONS

Writing is not caught. Writing must be taught.

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Anita L. Archer, Ph.D.

author, consultant, teacher

archerteach@aol.com

All Year Levels

Strategies we are im implementing to im improve stu tudent writing outcomes

• Explicit teaching of writing skills using
• Reading to Learn
• Comprehending text
• Note making
• Paraphrasing
• The Writing Revolution
• Sentences as the building blocks of writing
• Embedded in curriculum content
• Grammar taught in context
• Writing process especially planning and revising
• Genre
• D. Rose and J. Martin

Teaching Sequence

• TEACHING SEQUENCE FOR A HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILL - JUSTIFYING
• Tag the cognitive skill eg JUSTIFY
• Introduce words in the same family eg justification, justifiable, unjustifiable, unjustifiable, justifying, etc
• It is an important skill because it is often the difference between an A and a C – students do not give

reasons for their answers.

• Show students a REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE of the cognition
• Show students the KEY TASK WORDS (see ‘How to Write What You Want to Say)’ or QUESTION STEMS

FOR TEACHERS (see Pat’s Posters) that indicate that students will need to justify their responses

• Introduce the FRAYER MODEL this is the tool for developing a deep understanding of the concept of
• JUSTIFYING. INTRODUCE a student friendly definition of the cognitive verb
• Present students with an example of a JUSTIFICATION and ask them to deconstruct it using a GRAPHIC

ORGANISER

• Model a planned paragraph to JUSTIFY (from notes)
• Model the construction of the paragraph using the appropriate SENTENCE STARTERS and CONNECTIVES

% Student improvement by 1 or more LOA Writing Communication Science HASS Describe Explain Justify Describe Explain Justify 31.6 31.3 50.7 18.6 64.0 39.1

Year 7 & 8 Program of Study

Subject time allocations

Subjects from: The Arts, Technology, Health and

Hospitality, Social Sciences,

Business

Year 9 Subject Time Allocations

Select 2 subjects for Semester 1 and Semester 2 2019 (4 subjects in total). Must select 4 different subjects which include at least 1 Arts and 1 Technology subject.

Year 10 Subject Time Allocations

Compulsory Subjects 28 periods Subjects from: The Arts, Technology, Health and Hospitality, Social Sciences, Business 12 periods

Periods (35 min) per week English Mathematics as per achievement Cert II Foundation Studies Health and Physical Education Well-being History Science Subject Choice 1 Subject Choice 3 Subject Choice 2

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VOCATIONAL COURSE English Essential Maths All Applied Subjects (Maximum of 2 subjects) Legal Studies / Drama Modern History / Physical Education Visual Arts / Health Design / Film, Television & New Media ATAR COURSE or VOCATIONAL COURSE English General Maths Legal Studies / Drama Modern History / Physical Education Visual Arts / Health Design/ Film, Television & New Media (Can select 1 Applied Subject only, not recommended) Biology Marine Science Geography Legal Studies / Drama Modern History / Physical Education Visual Arts / Health Design/ Film, Television & New Media Biology Marine Science Geography All Applied Subjects (If all applied subjects selected then MEC/TAFE/SBA) (Maximum 1 subject, not recommended) Eligible All Applied Subjects All Applied Subjects ATAR COURSE English Math Methods VOCATIONAL COURSE Essential English

Year 10 to 11 Course Subject Selection

Physics Chemistry Specialist Mathematics SBA MEC TAFE/CQU If no general subjects selected SBA MEC TAFE/CQU

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Students MUST develop independent study skills.

• Use a study planner
• Learn how to keep a record of homework and assignments
• Be conversant with Mirani’s On-line Learning Environment (MOLE)

New QCE Advantages

• No QCS to scale a student’s result
• Less assessment over both Year 11 and 12
• Common assessment set by the QCAA across all schools

QUESTIONS

THANK YOU