[Year 12 IPM] FW: some help needed re IT enrolments

Wed Nov 30 11:20:21 EST 2005

With such tiny numbers as we have at Balmoral, I have ran composite year 11 and 12 classes for the last 5 years.  Infact, all our VCE subjects run this way.  I will have 2 IPM students and 2 year 11 students in 2006.

The only alteration that I make is to manipulate parts of the year 11 course in order to coincide with what we are doing in year 12.  An obvious example is that I run unit 2, outcome 3 (networking) before unit 2, outcome 2 as my year 12's would be doing their unit 4, outcome 2 on networking at the same time.

The main benefit I have found is that there are some parts of the IPM course that I like the students to have at least 2 goes of trying to understand - SDLC, project management etc and I incorporate these into the year 11 theory but we cover the material in line with IPM.

Hope that isn't too garbled
Fiona Bain
Balmoral High School

btw my 2 students in IPM constitute a 20% take-up!!

Roland Gesthuizen <rge at westallsc.vic.edu.au> on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:13:34 +1100 wrote:
> With only a couple of year 11 and 12's doing IPM, next year I will be 
> running an odd year 12/11 and another 11/10 class. Seems like a lot of 
> us are going to be running VCE composite classes in 2006 and I would 
> welcome any teaching strategies.
> 
> Hmm, this could be a good topic for a VITTA workshop if there is 
> sufficient interest and somebody familiar with this arrangement holds up 
> their hand. ;-)
> 
> Regards Roland
> 
> Jim Bunn wrote:
> 
> > The same trend is here at Hampton Park Secondary College. We do have a 
> > stand alone Information Systems class, but not enough for an IPM 
> > class. This is the first time ever for us. It was going to be scrapped 
> > but I convinced the AP to do a combined 11-12 class. We have enough 
> > year 11s to also do a stand alone year 11 IT as well.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Jim Bunn
> > CCNA CCAI
> > Technology Coordinator
> > Hampton Park Secondary College
> > Victoria  Australia
> >
> > bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au <mailto:bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au>
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> > [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Fusinato, Margaret M
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 November 2005 9:41 AM
> > *To:* ipm at edulists.com.au
> > *Subject:* [Year 12 IPM] FW: some help needed re IT enrolments
> >
> >  
> >
> > I have been approached to post the information below on the IPM list 
> > for open discussion / comments. Any comments posted in open forum I am 
> > happy to forward to Catherine.
> >
> >  
> >
> > At Trafalgar the numbers of students choosing IT are definitely lower 
> > than in the past, as I have previously stated in list discussions. 
> > Next year for the first time I will be running a combined class as the 
> > number choosing Units 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 were not sufficient for a stand 
> > alone in each area. Doing the math, the take up for IPM here is less 
> > then 1% and Systems roughly 2% next year. That figure breaks down to 
> > about equal male and female in IPM and in Systems all but one student 
> > is male.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Margaret Fusinato
> >
> > Trafalgar High School
> >
> >  
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Hi Margaret,
> >
> >  
> >
> > I thought I would enlist some help from you. The first area is VCE IPM 
> > and IS enrolment statistics/proportions. I want to indicate the 
> > proportion of students who study these subjects. I have searched the 
> > VCAA website and found the 2004 stats, which are fine, and am looking 
> > just at unit 4 enrolments.
> >
> >  
> >
> > According to this site 
> > (http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2004/statssect1.print.html) 
> > in Table 1.2 Unit results by gender and level 2004, there were 126,119 
> > males who completed unit 4 VCE subjects, and 144,124 females.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Then on the same site, in the individual subject unit completion 
> > outcomes, we have 2222 males who completed the IS subject, and only 
> > 176 females, and in IPM 4933 males and 2384 females.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Using my calculator that means that only 1.8% of males in the state 
> > completed IS, and 0.1% of the females.
> >
> > IPM is slightly better, with 4% of all VCE males and 1.7% of females.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Does that seem correct? Do you (or the VCE coordinator) get any report 
> > on where each subject sits on proportional enrolments?
> >
> >  
> >
> > It is very low.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Feel free to post my query on your teacher discussion board. I would 
> > benefit from some 'on the ground' input.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Catherine Lang
> >
> > Lecturer, Faculty of ICT
> >
> > Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia
> >
> > phone: +613 9214 5884
> >
> > http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/ictstaff/clang
> >
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fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au
http://www.balmoralhs.vic.edu.au/