[Year 12 SofDev] Re: Re: Industry practice

[andrew barry]

>
> Hi,
>
> No I havent received a off-topic email.
> I  dont' want a debate on why we should keep the status quo with IT. I
> want to encourage students to undertake further IT courses beyond of yr12,
> and provide with them skills so they feel they can do it?
>
> With declining numbers in IT courses everywhere I believe we(everyone) need
> to argue for change. If we don't initiate change then someone will do it for
> us, eg 'business adopt a school policy' has threatened change.



> I want a programming subject to teach and another that deals with hands on
> with applications eg webpages,VBA etc. Spread the other issues as components
> of unit 1 and 2.
>
> If we don't inspire kids in VCE then they dont go onto IT courses.

IT has to compete with other subjects like maths,sciences and english so we
have to be mindful of the situation. Many teachers such as myself are on
these 'contracts' where we need to inspire our students in what we do.
 My classes have plenty of scope for  programming beyond the requirements (
where I have re jigged things :).


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:23 AM, andrew barry <jagguy999 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> No I havent received a off-topic email.
> I think i dont' want an debate on why we should keep the status quo with
> IT. I  thought the idea was to encourage students to undertake further IT
> courses beyond of yr12, and provide with them skills so they feel they can
> do it?
>
> With declining numbers in IT courses everywhere I believe we need to argue
> for change , as I have said before. If we don't initiate change then someone
> will do it for us, as business adopt a school policy has threatened. I want
> a programming subject to teach and another that deals with hands on with
> applications eg webpages,VBA etc. Spread the other issues as components of
> unit 1 and 2.
>
> If we don't inspire kids in VCE then they dont go onto IT courses, and this
> seems to be our current issue(except my classes where I have re jigged
> things :).
>
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