<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the kind words, Jackson, and I'm sorry to see you leave our community.<div><br></div><div>You never know, though. You could be back when ITA hits its backswing and enrolments quadruple...</div>
<div>(cough)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Mark</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 November 2013 12:18, Jackson Bates <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bates.j@wcc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">bates.j@wcc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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Thanks for your Post-mortem thus far, Mark.<br>
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I used the same logic as Joyce, thinking it was project-based (most of my kids answered that way, too) - but thought knowledge sharing made a lot of sense too. I'd be interested to hear the official line from VCAA and their rationale when they are done with their report. I agree that it was a tough opener. I agree with your (Mark's) frustrations about the ERD question, too - I came up with the same answer, but it wasn't a question that I felt tested what the kids had actually been told to prepare for in the study design. Common-sense makes it easy enough to answer, but common-sense would also suggest not asking questions where common-sense is the only resource at your disposal to answer it on the exam.<br>
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The rest of the paper felt easy to me. There were one of two questions where I couldn't figure out exactly what VCAA wanted in the answer, but generally I was pretty happy with the paper.<br>
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On a personal note: this is my last year teaching ITA. I've had to give it up after a couple of years of juggling 3 year 12 classes and decided next year I should hand over the IT to someone else.<br>
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A huge thank you to all who have been a tremendous support. Obviously the biggest thanks go to Mark Kelly for his excellent site and resources - He's probably had the biggest single impact of any classroom teacher on the whole state for any subject, and I certainly wouldn't have had half the success I have had without his help! But the rest of you are awesome as well - thanks for all of the insight and resources you've shared over the years. I wish the English edulist was this useful :)<br>
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Kind regards and best wishes to you all for the future,<br>
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Jackson Bates<br>
Waverley Christian College<br>
<br>--<br></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,253,255)"><font size="1">Day 19, I have successfully conditioned my master to smile and write in his book every time I drool.- Pavlov's Dog</font></span><br>
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