THE NEW QCE

Queensland Certificate of Education

WELCOMEECP Night

Tuesday 21st May

Ministerial Review 2013

ACER review in 2014

OP 1992

ACARA

WHY

About external assessment

• In the new system, the assessment program for all General subjects will include external assessment that is:

• common to all schools

• administered under the same conditions, at the same time and on the same day

• developed and marked by the QCAA according to a commonly applied marking scheme.

will be held on the same day in all schools across the State for each subject over 16 days in Term 4 Year 12.

External Assessment

How else will these changes affect students at Mirani SHS?

• All students must keep a record of all classwork and homework (Yr 10, 11 & 12 academic integrity)

• Year 11 is critical! Students develop the skills and knowledge to apply in Yr 12. By QCAA policy teachers can only give very limited feedback on assessment in Yr 12

• Students who miss a Yr 12 assessment will receive no credit for that subject

• Yr 12 students must get a “MEDICAL REPORT” in the QCAA format if they are sick for assessment

• BABY TIME (It’s only school) is over. Student MUST have developed independent study skills and responsibility by the start of Year 11!

IT will not be possible to change/swap subjects in SENIOR.

CORRECT SUBJECT SELECTION IN YEAR 10 IS CRITICAL

SCHOOL RESPONSES

BYOX

Students need to be able to:

• TYPE –Use Microsoft Office• Navigate the Mirani On-line Learning Environment (MOLE, Yr 7,8, 11

and 12)• Know how to create folders and work in the windows environment• Know how to surf the web effectively and assess the value and

credibility of the information found• Use learning objects• Text books and support resources are on-line

04Today’s Learning Goals

Learning

Goal:

Success

Criteria:

You will have a shared understanding of our whole school approach to explicit teaching of

cognitive verbs

You will be able to:

Define what a cognitive verb is

Identify the cognitive verbs in syllabus

documents

Plan for writing success with an explicit

teaching sequence

Design a cognitive organiser for an

assessment item or lesson you will teach

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Writing is not caught.Writing must be taught.

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Anita L. Archer, Ph.D.author, consultant, teacher

archerteach@aol.com

All Year Levels

Strategies we are implementing to improve student writing outcomes

• Explicit teaching of writing skills using Reading to Learn

Comprehending text

Note making

Paraphrasing

The Writing Revolution Sentences as the building blocks of writing

Embedded in curriculum content

Grammar taught in context

Writing process especially planning and revising

Genre D. Rose and J. Martin

Teaching Sequence• TEACHING SEQUENCE FOR A HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILL - JUSTIFYING

• Tag the cognitive skill eg JUSTIFY

• Introduce words in the same family eg justification, justifiable, unjustifiable, unjustifiable, justifying, etc

• It is an important skill because it is often the difference between an A and a C – students do not give reasons for their answers.

• Show students a REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE of the cognition

• Show students the KEY TASK WORDS (see ‘How to Write What You Want to Say)’ or QUESTION STEMS FOR TEACHERS (see Pat’s Posters) that indicate that students will need to justify their responses

• Introduce the FRAYER MODEL this is the tool for developing a deep understanding of the concept of JUSTIFYING. INTRODUCE a student friendly definition of the cognitive verb

• Present students with an example of a JUSTIFICATION and ask them to deconstruct it using a GRAPHIC ORGANISER

• Model a planned paragraph to JUSTIFY (from notes)

• Model the construction of the paragraph using the appropriate SENTENCE STARTERS and CONNECTIVES

% Student improvement by 1 or more LOA

Writing Communication

Science HASS

Describe Explain Justify Describe Explain Justify

31.6 31.3 50.7 18.6 64.0 39.1

Year 7 & 8 Program of Study

Subject time allocations

Subjects from: The Arts,

Technology, Health and

Hospitality, Social Sciences,

Business

Year 9 Subject Time Allocations

Select 2 subjects for Semester 1 and Semester 2 2019 (4 subjects in total). Must

select 4 different subjects which include at least 1 Arts and 1 Technology subject.

Year 10 Subject Time Allocations

Compulsory Subjects

28 periods

Subjects from: The Arts,

Technology, Health and

Hospitality, Social Sciences,

Business

12 periods

Periods (35 min) per week

English

Mathematics as per achievement

Cert II Foundation Studies

Health and Physical Education

Well-being

History

Science

Subject Choice 1

Subject Choice 3

Subject Choice 2

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VOCATIONAL COURSEEnglish

Essential Maths

All Applied Subjects

(Maximum of 2 subjects)Legal Studies / Drama

Modern History / Physical EducationVisual Arts / Health

Design / Film, Television & New Media

ATAR COURSE or VOCATIONAL COURSE

English

General Maths

Legal Studies / DramaModern History / Physical Education

Visual Arts / HealthDesign/ Film, Television & New Media

(Can select 1 Applied Subject only, not recommended)

Biology Marine Science

Geography

Legal Studies / DramaModern History / Physical Education

Visual Arts / HealthDesign/ Film, Television & New Media

Biology Marine Science

Geography

All Applied Subjects

(If all applied subjects selected thenMEC/TAFE/SBA)

(Maximum 1 subject, not recommended)

Eligible All Applied SubjectsAll Applied Subjects

ATAR COURSEEnglish

Math Methods

VOCATIONAL COURSE

Essential English

Year 10 to 11 Course Subject Selection

PhysicsChemistry

Specialist Mathematics

SBAMEC

TAFE/CQU

If no general subjects selectedSBA MEC

TAFE/CQU

Year 7 - 11

Students MUST develop independent study skills.

• Use a study planner

• Learn how to keep a record of homework and assignments

• Be conversant with Mirani’s On-line Learning Environment (MOLE)

New QCE Advantages

• No QCS to scale a student’s result

• Less assessment over both Year 11 and 12

• Common assessment set by the QCAA across all schools

QUESTIONS

THANK YOU