[Year 12 SofDev] McKinnon classes 2011

[Mark KELLY]

It's really odd!

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.

SD, which has only run every 3 or so years (with a small cohort when it did
run), is nearly over-subscribed.

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!

-- 
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
VCE IT Lecture notes: http://vceit.com
Moderator: IT Applications Mailing List

Korma: the philosophy that what you get out of a curry depends on what you
put into it.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/sofdev/attachments/20100910/887dca13/attachment.html