[Year 12 IT Apps] Re: Teaching ITA to Yr 11s

[Meadows, Roslyn M]

Hi Russell, 

I think what Kent and Roland mean is that you just enrol your Year 11's
into the 3/4 unit, so they do ITApps SAC's and the exam, and at the end
of the year they have one year 12 subject up their sleeve.

That will probably be the situation next year at Bentleigh.

Cheers
Ros

Roslyn Meadows
ICT Coordinator
Head of Assessment and Reporting
Bentleigh Secondary College | 9579 1044 | 0412 614 062

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[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Russell Edwards
Sent: Friday, 30 November 2007 8:17 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Re: Teaching ITA to Yr 11s

Dear Kent and Roland,

On 30/11/2007, at 1:44 AM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:

> >From memory .. some people find it easier to just teach Unit 3 and  
> 4 to the composite year 11 and 12 class. Just a thought.

I was tempted to do this, but it seems problematic to me.

For starters it's more than a bit naughty as far as the VCAA is  
concerned and it's quite a stretch to report against the Yr 11  
outcomes... for example, would you be counting spreadsheets as a  
"programming or scripting language" and security analysis as  
"representing a network"??   Secondly, it's going to be hard for the  
weaker students and you need to take that into account for Yr 11s by  
marking them more leniently ... but not too leniently! You might then  
end up finding it hard in some cases to decide whether or not they've  
met the outcomes.   Thirdly, wouldn't it be dead boring next year for  
the Year 12 kids who already did it this year as Year 11s? Fourth,   
you'd miss out on the fun of the programming topic!

Just my opinion ;-)


Russell Edwards
Whittlesea SC
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