<br>I do remember seeing some unimpressed expressions on the faces of prospective 2011 ITA candidates when they saw a summary of the new ITA course... the sort of look when you find you're getting toasted peanut butter sandwiches for Christmas lunch...<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 September 2010 09:42, Harper, Glenda J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harper.glenda.j@edumail.vic.gov.au">harper.glenda.j@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Same here at Carwatha<br>
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Same thing at this school. More kids in SD than ITA for 2011. The Year 10 programming elective has always run so that's not the factor.<br>
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But this school has had enrolments be as low as 5 for ITA and as high as 19 (this year) in ITA.<br>
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Yep. It's odd.<br>
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>>> Mark KELLY <<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>> 9/10/2010 9:00 AM >>><br>
It's really odd!<br>
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ITA, which has run continuously forever with good numbers has barely scraped a class together for next year by combining year elevens and twelves into one small ITA class.<br>
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SD, which has only run every 3 or so years (with a small cohort when it did run), is nearly over-subscribed.<br>
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There don't seem to be any clear local causes for such a great change of attitude (e.g. changes of teachers or big changes in middle-years IT offerings) so I can only put it down to either something in the water, or the changes to the study design.<br>
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To be fair, I haven't heard kids explicitly blaming the ITA study design, and for some reason they seem dead keen on programming in our year 10 Info Systems elective. My year 11 IT classes have been dead quiet for 2 weeks with the kids busily coding in VB6. Last year I had to beat them with chairs to finish the VB material... this year I can sit up the front folding paper aeroplanes and clipping my toenails while they beaver away and sort out problems within their own ranks.<br>
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Odd!<br>
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