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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>We did a grid, taken from the VELS document, that listed the progressions skill by skill. They DON’T ALWAYS OCCUR (!!!) e.g. Spelling is not mentioned at all levels. <BR>
We then decided that for each task in class we would assign a specific skill – and assess on a rubric for that skill. On a 5-point rubric, 3 would be “at standard” - e.g. 5.0 and the corresponding/surrounding points would match the surrounding VELS levels. <BR>
If you use RUBISTAR, you get 4 levels, and I personally use 3 as “at standard”, as being near the “top” encourages the kids.<BR>
If you want to assess a piece of work for a variety of skills or VELS strands, you modify accordingly, but the assessment becomes less specific.<BR>
We devise our own rubrics, but share them, as not everyone does the same tasks. However, the underlying philosophy is used across all levels.<BR>
Cheers – hope that is clear enough!<BR>
Kathy Skidmore,<BR>
Wanganui Park SC<BR>
Shepparton.<BR>
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On 14/02/11 12:01 PM, "Neale Baker" <<a href="NBaker@sac.vic.edu.au">NBaker@sac.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I would be happy to join the discussion. I am in my first year as Head of English and am interested in the same ideas, though I may not have much to offer so far...<BR>
We are going to look at assessment sheets too as we have a million and one different varieties so we want to have some common ground for consistency and also to have the students have some idea of what we require.<BR>
Briefly, overview we seem to handle the text analysis side of English quite well and preparing studenyts for writng essays. For us this year, we are concentrating more on writing, creatively I suppose as looking at our Y12 results the context is the area we atre down.. We use short forms at Y7-10 using extracts from authors as models for their own writing, poetry and prose. This seems to be working quite well. Studnets anecdotal feedback is quite positive.<BR>
Does this help? I will check your twitter feed as well<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT FACE="Arial">Neale Baker<BR>
<B>Head of English<BR>
</B>Sacré Cœur<BR>
172 Burke Road, Glen Iris, Australia 3146<BR>
Phone: 613 9835 2724 FAX: 613 9885 5936<BR>
Email: <a href="nbaker@sac.vic.edu.au">nbaker@sac.vic.edu.au</a><BR>
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<B>Subject:</B> [English] support for yr 7-10 program<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I know this list is for VCE but I am hopeful some people may like to share with me off list what goes on in year 7-10 in their schools. I am no going into my third year as domain leader and I have a real bee in my bonnet. I want to prepare a complete scope and sequence for 7-10 that clearly goves the big picture and determines the common ground we work from at the school level. I am struggling with the best way to format or lay this out – I have seen a good example from NSW – but that isn’t quite what I need since the underlying core standards are different from the VELS. Would you care to share such a map of what your school is doing? <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I am also after examples of assessment sheets – the model we use was originally prepared for VELS recording and blending this with grading. Having used it for a number of years we are finding it is not a useful tool for students or their parents for lots of reasons I do not wish to into. I know there is no perfect beast for this – but if you are prepared to share what your school does I would greatly appreciate it. I am genuinely interested in those of you using rubrics – what do you have one them – how do you ‘score’ them. There are I know thousands of examples online but most seem linked to everyone else’s curriculum. Finding those that specifically identify objectives based on VELS PP’s is something I have not succeeded at when it comes to seeing what others do. Any advice/example would be appreciated. <BR>
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