THE NEW QCE Queensland Certificate of Education WELCOME ECP Night Tuesday 21st May
WHY Ministerial Review 2013 ACER review in 2014 OP 1992 ACARA
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.
External Assessment 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.
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
04 Today’s Learning Goals ALL YEAR LEVELS ALL LESSONS You will have a shared Learning understanding of our whole school Goal: 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 Success Plan for writing success with an explicit Criteria: teaching sequence Design a cognitive organiser for an assessment item or lesson you will teach
All Year Levels Writing is not caught. Writing must be taught. Anita L. Archer, Ph.D. author, consultant, teacher archerteach@aol.com 9
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 Science HASS % Student improvement by 1 or more LOA Describe Explain Justify Describe Explain Justify Writing Communication 31.6 31.3 50.7 18.6 64.0 39.1
Year 7 & 8 Program of Study Subject time allocations
Year 9 Subject Time Allocations Subjects from: The Arts, Technology, Health and Hospitality , Social Sciences, Business 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 English Mathematics as per achievement Cert II Foundation Studies Compulsory Subjects Health and Physical Education 28 periods Well-being History Science Subject Choice 1 Subjects from: The Arts, Technology, Health and Subject Choice 2 Hospitality, Social Sciences, Business Subject Choice 3 12 periods Periods (35 min) per week
Year 10 to 11 Course Subject Selection ATAR COURSE or ATAR COURSE VOCATIONAL COURSE VOCATIONAL COURSE VOCATIONAL COURSE English English English Essential English Math Methods Essential Maths General Maths (Maximum 1 subject, not All Applied Subjects recommended) All Applied Subjects All Applied Subjects Eligible All Applied Subjects (If all applied subjects selected then MEC/TAFE/SBA) Legal Studies / Drama (Maximum of 2 subjects) Legal Studies / Drama Modern History / Physical Education Legal Studies / Drama Modern History / Physical Education Visual Arts / Health Modern History / Physical Education Visual Arts / Health Design/ Film, Television & New Media Visual Arts / Health Design/ Film, Television & New Media (Can select 1 Applied Subject only, not Design / Film, Television & New Media recommended) Biology Biology Marine Science Marine Science Geography Geography If no general subjects selected SBA SBA MEC MEC TAFE/CQU TAFE/CQU Physics Chemistry 16 Specialist Mathematics
Year 7 - 11 11 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
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