unpacking the australian curriculum
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Teacher librarians as innovators and collaboratorsin the Australian Curriculum:
Unpacking the Australian Curriculum
Lee FitzGerald, Lecturer in Teacher librarianship, Charles Sturt University
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Know it!
http://www.acara.edu.au/curriculum/curriculum.html
Progress of the Australian Curriculum
Shaping Writing Available for implementation
Languages are in consultation
http://navet.ifi.uio.no/218/arrangement-med-know-it
http://www.wetrocks.com.au/national-curriculum
These are the icons for General Capabilities, used in Content descriptions.
And Cross Curriculum Priorities
The new Arts curriculum:Same organisation as all others
Go to F-10 Curriculum and use the filters.Play with filtering out Band descriptions, Content
descriptions, and Achievement standards, so you can see the differences.
Go to the Scope and Sequence for summary of content descriptions and
skills.
It is in the skills areas that we can work to create our inquiry
tasks.
Reflect/Discuss
How familiar with AC are you? Rate yourself: 0-5
How are you using it?Which parts have you
explored?Your role in in-
servicing / leading staff? How have you
done this?Your biggest need?
Resource it!
Existing units of work and inquiry tasks
Seems to be plenty of units but very few assessment tasks fully
fleshed out.
English for the Australian curriculum http://e4ac.edu.au/units/year-10/index.html
http://www.achistoryunits.edu.au/home/website-home.html
History assessment task
National Digital Learning Resources Network
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Some burning questions!
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Two bright stars in the TL firmament in Inquiry!
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Mandy Lupton
Read: Lupton, Mandy. Inquiry skills in the Australian Curriculum, Access, June 2012, p12-18Watch: Inquiry in the Australian Curriculum – A bird’s-eye view. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlePUh1ogY
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A bird’s eye view
• How familiar with the curriculum are you? Rate yourself: 0-5
• How do you use it in planning with teachers?
• Which parts have you explored?
– Key questions? Content descriptions? Achievement standards? Elaborations? Rationale? Aims? Cross curriculum priorities? General capabilities? Units of work? Assessment tasks? Work samples?
• What is your role in in-servicing / leading staff? How have you done this?
• Discuss at your tables:
Feedback afterwards.
Reflect/Discuss
Reflect/Discuss: Look at Handout 1 F-10
Inquiry skills and relationship with CCT and ICT
Comments?
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Karen Bonanno
Mapping curriculum skills and capabilities to an inquiry learning framework.
One small sample – contact Karen if you want to see it all – it’s amazing!
Eduwebinars
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So, where’s the spine?
Teaching Strategies for Research
Information Search Process: The spine
Dynamic Combination!
And along comes Critical and Creative Thinking......
Alignment of CCA with ISP
Look at handout 2
GI scope and
sequence LK
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Strong new scaffolding of
Inquiry: Guided Inquiry
Design.
Kuhlthau, C.C., Maniotes, L., & Caspari, A.. (2012).
Guided inquiry design: A framework for inquiry in your school. Santa Barbara, CA:
Libraries Unlimited.
What’s new in Guided Inquiry Design?
• Five kinds of learning:• Curriculum content• Information Literacy• Learning how to learn• Literacy competency• Social Skills
• Information Search Process simplified
• Whole units delivered by inquiry• Inquiry community and Inquiry circles• 6C’s: Collaboration, Conversation, Composition,
Choosing, Charting, and Continuing• Journals, logs and inquiry charts• Reflection throughout• Culmination conversation
What’s new in Guided Inquiry Design?
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Inquiry circles
Ancient EgyptSlave, prisoner or adventurerHolocaustNarrabeen Man
Class folders
Our Big Question
Inquiry circles and what they have to
do!
Project 1: Year 11 Ancient History
The Guided Inquiries take 5 weeks, 26 lessons.
Look!
Explicit ISP and Inquiry Circles
Inquiry circle group tasks
Question focus formulation
Pair/share/pairIdeas cluster
Some inquiry circle scaffolds
• Question focus formulation• Pair Share Pair protocol• Ideas cluster
Your individual tasks
• Reflection sheets
• Take notes on Evernote, do bibliography on Easybib.
• Develop an inquiry question
• Answer your inquiry question in an essay of up to 2000 words.
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Holocaust:Inquiry Circles
Culmination conversation.
Culmination conversation questions.
Year 9 Holocaust
Student Reflection
Questions in the SLIM (School Library Impact Measure) Toolkit reflection sheets
1. Write the title that best describes your research project at this time.
2. Take some time to think about your research topic. Now write down what you know about this topic.
3. What interests you about this topic?4. How much do you know about this topic? Check () one box that
best matches how much you know. Nothing, Not much, Some, Quite a bit and A great deal
5. Write down what you think is EASY about researching your topic.6. Write down what you think is DIFFICULT about researching your
topic.7. Write down how you are FEELING now about your project. Check
() only the boxes that apply to you. Confident, Disappointed, Relieved, Frustrated, Confused, Optimistic, Uncertain, Satisfied, Anxious or Other.
Research questions (SLIM adaptation)
1. What do you know about your topic?2. Have you any particular difficulties relating to
your topic?3. What have you learnt from this Guided Inquiry?4. Describe your feelings are you progressed
through the stages of the Information Search process – Initiation, Selection, Formulation/Exploration, Collection and Presentation.
Facts, explanations, conclusions – whole group
Kate M: the perfect researcher
1 2 3 EssayKate M
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Facts, explanations and conclusions - at RS1, 2, 3 and essay
FactExplanationConclusionC1Conclusion C2Conclusion C3
Essay 23, Process 10
Why has the Spartan failure at Thermopylae been immortalised?
Ailish R – a diligent and thoughtful scholar
1 2 3 EssayAilish Ro
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Facts, explanations and conclusions - at RS1, 2, 3 and essay
FactExplanationConclusionC1Conclusion C2Conclusion C3
Essay 24, process 9
Discuss the differing perspectives highlighted in the historical debate on the location of Atlantis.
Template for this afternoon
See Handout 5
• How familiar with the curriculum are you? Rate yourself: 0-5
• How do you use it in planning with teachers?
• Which parts have you explored?
– Key questions? Content descriptions? Achievement standards? Elaborations? Rationale? Aims? Cross curriculum priorities? General capabilities? Units of work? Assessment tasks? Work samples?
• What is your role in in-servicing / leading staff? How have you done this?
• Discuss at your tables:
Feedback afterwards.
Any questions?