Moderation

Over the last two weeks staff will engage in moderation where year levels teams come together to compare judgements of students work. This process involves close collaboration to establish shared understandings of the achievement standards for students. Teachers work together to make judgements that are consistent and comparable.

Twilight Planning

Next Wednesday evening, staff will collaboratively work in year level teams to plan for term 3. This is another important process in the teaching and learning cycle. It is a valuable process in the development of effective programs to support student learning outcomes.

Australian Curriculum - General Capabilities

The general capabilities play a significant role in the Australian Curriculum in equipping young Australians to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century. They include:

• Literacy
• Numeracy
• ICT Capability
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Personal and Social Capability
• Intercultural Understanding
• Ethical Understanding

In the Australian Curriculum, capability encompasses knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions. Students develop capability when they apply knowledge and skills confidently, effectively and appropriately in complex and changing circumstances, in their learning at school and in their lives outside of school.

In the Australian Curriculum, the general capabilities are addressed through the content of the learning areas. General capabilities are identified where they are developed or applied in the content descriptions. They are also identified where they offer opportunities to add depth and richness to student learning via the content elaborations, which are provided to give teachers ideas about how they might teach the content.

So what does all this mean. It means that at Wondall Heights State School, teachers plan, teach, assess and report using the cross curricula priorities and the general capabilities within and across the eight learning areas.