[English] support for yr 7-10 program

[Neale Baker]

Hi Jenny
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...
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.
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.
Does this help? I will check your twitter feed as well

Neale Baker
Head of English
Sacré Cœur
172 Burke Road, Glen Iris, Australia 3146
Phone:  613 9835 2724  FAX:  613 9885 5936
Email:  nbaker at sac.vic.edu.au<mailto:nbaker at sac.vic.edu.au>
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Subject: [English] support for yr 7-10 program

Hi

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?

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.

In return If you are a twitter user you will see I use #vceeng to share resources. Please join me. Thanks


Jenny Gilbert

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