[Year 12 IT Apps] School Curriculum Restructure

[Royce Personal]

In reality neither approach works as an all one or all other system.
Mix and match depending ability of teachers etc is always best
The problem is getting enuf allocated time for the eLearning coaches to get into all classes of all subjects.

With other system
I have had ICT skills put into all reports as a criteria for all assessment tasks given.
It still didn't happen

Royce Williams
St Anthonys College

On 29/04/2011, at 12:54 PM, rb <bouman.reinier.r at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Hhmm,
> 
> as already has been mentioned, once ICT has been given the flick in the 
> junior and middle years, the reality of it is that other teachers are 
> unlikely to specifically target ICT skills as part of their curricula. 
> Even though the VELS reporting makes it fairly unequivocal that ICT 
> skills are cross curricular and as such, any teacher should address such 
> in their report.
> 
> In practice, this doesn't happen [the specific reporting of ICT skills] 
> and it's really down to the ICT teachers to run/report this.
> 
> However, rather than giving ICT the flick, here's a different approach: 
> you could instead take specific tasks of any curriculum unit and have 
> that done in ICT instead.
> 
> eg: if science students needed to compile a timeline of growth data for 
> an organic widget that they've been doing a project on, you could 
> synchronise with your science teacher to take those lil' darlings and do 
> this compilation in 'ICT' and teach those specific skills.
> 
> So your ICT subject/curriculum would then become cross curricular, 
> multi-subject driven on a 'needs based' approach.
> 
> The advantages are:
> other teachers get:
> a break [you're taken their class]
> an opportunity to 'team teach' with you :-)
> you may be able to free up a classroom for those particular sessions.
> your ICT curriculum is largely made for you
> 
> The disadvantages are:
> It needs a LOT of planning to synchronise what happens where and when.
> [that was a short sentence but I do mean a LOT of planning]
> There may still be ICT skills that are not addressed by the needs of 
> other subjects which you will have to cover.
> 
> Bottom line:
> 
> it's better to synchronise ICT with other subjects under your capable 
> ICT's teacher than it is to blithely hope that other teachers will take 
> it under their [less capable and time-poor] wings.
> 
> That's my 2c worth.
> 
> 
> 
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