[Year 12 IT Apps] McKinnon classes 2011

Sat Sep 11 10:56:06 EST 2010

Three years ago, my VCE IT classes got shouldered with the Arts block so the
my students are generally drawn from Maths-Science to Business Studies-Arts.
Most have an ESL background and my most 'accademic' IT student has only been
in Australia for a couple of years and struggles with many basic computing
ideas. I am still smouldering by the reviewer who openly ticked me off for a
decline in IT results. Explaining to a bean-counter about small sample
sizes, teaching for all and shifting cohort groups doesnt cut much cloth
when they wave their moderation wand.

Oddly enough, I have more girls in my year 12 class than boys. I put this to
the splendid Go-Girls-Gor-For IT seminar we ran for the year 10s a couple of
years ago. My guess is that if I hadn't done this, we would also be down to
just one class. The pictures speak for themselves and I believe they are
running the event again.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/sets/72157624373556087/

Lock and load ..

Regards Roland

PS: My biggest challenge is enthusing kids to return to school / class
following the term break for revision and sticking it out. For the past
couple of years, I sit outside the examination room to fire off a
threatening glare for anybody that even just dates to think about leaving
early (sigh) .. some later admit that the thought of a grumpy Mr G lurking
outside keeps them indoors.

PSS: Increasingly like the idea of switching to offering SD instead next
year.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Brendyn Hancock <BHancock at nagle.vic.edu.au
> wrote:

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> Many of our kids are taking classes with fancy names and little content.
> Many of them are going for classes that require less of them. Many of the
> VCE kids are going to VCAL/VET.
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> Lots are going to more social based content classes. Environmental Studies.
> Social Justice studies. Art.
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> My observation.
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> *Brendyn Hancock*
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> *ICT Manager*
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark KELLY
> *Sent:* Friday, 10 September 2010 9:59 AM
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> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] McKinnon classes 2011
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> Do you know where they're going instead?
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> On 10 September 2010 09:46, Brendyn Hancock <BHancock at nagle.vic.edu.au>
> wrote:
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> Mark
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> Was just about to post this same discussion. We seem to be all re-visiting
> this.
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> Nagle has an enrolment of 950. 2011 classes have just been drafted. Unit
> 1-2=8 students, Unit 3-4=1 student
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> Interesting to note we can only raise 2 classes of 25 student for a term
> elective of gamemaker in Y10 as well.
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> Trends are trending away from us..
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> Cheers
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> B
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> *Brendyn Hancock*
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> *ICT Manager*
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> *Nagle College*
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> *PO Box 507*
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> *BAIRNSDALE VIC 3875*
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> *p 03 5152 6122 ext954*
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> *f 03 5152 6220*
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark KELLY
> *Sent:* Friday, 10 September 2010 9:01 AM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 Software
> Development Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] McKinnon classes 2011
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> It's really odd!
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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.
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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.
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> Odd!
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> --
> Mark Kelly
> Information Systems Manager; Reporting Manager
> McKinnon Secondary College
> McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
> Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085
> School Phone +613 8520 9000, Fax +613 9578 9253
> kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
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> McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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