[Year 12 IT Apps] No ITA at McKinnon in 2012
Litsa Tzelepis
htzelepis at msj.vic.edu.au
Thu Oct 20 10:59:26 EST 2011
Hello - so sad - I have been teaching this subject for 16 years and I do love it but it looks like its whisping away.
We have about 9 ITA students and about 8 11IT students. Numbers are being finalised this week.
However, our numbers have really spread out across other subjects too. Others are feeling a low in numbers. My concern is where have the numbers gone?
Good luck with the SD course.
Litsa
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark KELLY
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List ; Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:30 AM
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] No ITA at McKinnon in 2012
Hi all.
As I feared, ITA didn't get enough enrolments to run in 2012 - for the first time in about 15 years.
Strangely enough, Software Development *is* running - and before this year it hasn't run for 3 years.
Actually, I'm kind of relieved since SD is more interesting anyway, and ITA seems old, dry and tired. Perhaps it's just because I've been teaching it since forever, or it may be that the new study design is partly to blame - and yes! normal forms, I AM looking at you. And I'd also put some blame on the freakishly large and long U4O1 - my kids were exhausted at the end of that.
After a hiatus this year, Units 1&2 return to McKinnon in 2012, and since I have barely looked at them it will be another fun year compiling resources for those units.
If the ITA embargo continues and SD continues to run, I may craft units 1&2 to be heavy on programming to better funnel kids into SD in the following year.
Do you guys know what units will run at your places next year?
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Mark Kelly
Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: +613 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
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