[Year 12 SofDev] SAT deliveries.

[McCleary Scott]

Previous years teaching informatics I gave them an end date where they submitted everything at once.  I’m changing my approach this year.

I used to give them dates that I wanted to make observations and they could use those dates to help plan, but kids being kids saw these dates as only suggestions…and you’ve probably heard the line before... ”I love deadlines, I love the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by”.  Well that’s what I ended up with.  Too easy for kids to get to the end and still have a truck load of work that they hadn’t completed. I found they spent far too much time fluffing around during the early stages and not producing anything significant.  Also created a mountain of work for me marking at one time.

So, staged approach this year.  I’m giving the kids dates, but these are submission and marking dates as you have suggested, pretty much hand up one criteria at a time as we work through it.  I’m hoping that this will keep them more focused knowing that they have to have deliverables at a certain time and hoping that is eases my load for marking also.

Judgement to be reserved until after this year is completed for me though.

From: sofdev <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> On Behalf Of Victoria Farrell
Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2020 8:18 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] SAT deliveries.

Hi David. I give them the due dates and they work around them as milestones. I’d be interested to know if it is done differently by others.

On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 7:27 pm, David B Thomas <david.b.thomas at rmit.edu.au<mailto:david.b.thomas at rmit.edu.au>> wrote:
Hi,
Please can I ask you if you declare teacher delivery dates for SAT unit 3 to all students that are inline with the VCAA deliveries; a project plan, a justification, a SRS and a folio OR you just allow them to deliver according to their schedules? Presumably, the later option could become chaotic if their projects start to slip.

If it is the former what do you do if their projects start to slip past your teacher delivery dates?
David.
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