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Introduction to Teaching and Curriculum Frameworks Exam Notes Question 1: Define and discuss the qualities of an effective teacher (10 marks) - Personal qualities - Classroom management - Teaching strategies Introductory statement/paragraph Can use a previous teacher or talk about the year level you will be wanting to teach Introduction: - An effective teacher entails positive personal qualities, good classroom management and effective teaching strategies - Without these qualities a teacher can not be effective - It is important to be able to manage your classroom effectively and efficiently to create a positive classroom environment - The teacher should also have positive personal qualities so that the students will react positively to the teacher and in turn will learn - Lastly an effective teacher should have a wide range of teaching strategies to cater for all different types of students and capabilities Paragraph 1: Personal qualities - confidence - approachable - enthusiastic - body language - fair, firm and flexible - kind Paragraph 2: Classroom management - routines - classroom environment - lesson plans - class rules/norms - discipline - positive relationships - physical layout of the room - Kounins principles of classroom management (e.g. withitness, smoothness, overlapping, slowdowns, student accountability) Withitness: - refers to be aware of your surroundings and what each child is doing at one time - refers to the notion of having ‘eyes in the back of your head’ - will eliminate problems occurring in the classroom and reduce distractions Smoothness: - teachers will poor classroom management do things that reduce the smoothness of the lesson - important to avoid jumping from one topic to another as this makes effects smoothness of the lesson - attention will decrease when the teacher is not keeping on one topic and can also be confusing for students Overlapping: - this focuses on the way a teacher deals with two or more events that are going on in the classroom at the same time - The teacher should always have their eye on the other groups when attending to one group!

Paragraph 3: Teaching strategies - group work - visual aids - differentiating - individual learning plans - variety of styles - hands-on - multiple intelligences Question 2 : Discuss the guiding principles of the Australian Curriculum - Name and discuss the 2 major goals of the Melbourne Declaration (read the preamble of this document as it will be useful to answer Q.2) - Name the general capabilities and discuss why they are central to the Australian Curriculum - Name the Cross-Curriculum priorities and discuss why they are important aspects of the Australian Curriculum Melbourne Declaration - Read the Preamble, very useful for your exam - Goal 1: Australian schooling promotes equity and excellence - Everyone has the right to a good education (equity) - Everyone student should do the best they can, promoting high achievement (excellence) - Ensure learning outcomes of Indigenous students improve to match those of other students - Ensure that disadvantaged students are given the same educational opportunities than other students - Promoting a culture of excellence in all schools by supporting them to provide challenging, and stimulation learning experiences and opportunities that enable all students to explore and build on their gifts and talents - Goal 2: All young Australians become: • Successful learners • Confident and creative individuals • Active and informed citizens - Students will develop their capacity to learn and play an active role in their own learning - Students will have the essential skills in literacy and numeracy and are creative and productive users of technology, especially ICT - Students will be able to plan activities independently, collaborate, work in teams and communicate ideas - Students will have a sense of optimism about their lives and the future - Will produce students with moral and ethical integrity - Students appreciate diversity General Capabilities - Literacy - Numeracy - ICT capability - Critical and creative thinking - Personal and social capability - Ethical behaviour - Intercultural understanding - LNICPEIL - PENCIIL - These general capabilities are central to the Australian Curriculum as it is important for students to be well rounded in a variety of different aspects - Literacy and Numeracy are important for students to be able to read and write and also solve mathematical problems, numeracy is used in every persons daily life through telling the time and dealing with money - ICT capabilities are important as information communication technology is growing rapidly and continuing advances are occurring. This changes the ways people share, use, develop and

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process information and technology. Schools need to increase their effectiveness of these technologies significantly over the next decade to cater for the continuing advancements Critical and creative thinking allows students to critical analysis information and to think creatively in order to succeed and develop new ideas Personal and social capability ensure students are able to interact with one another and bring ideas together Ethical behaviour allows all students to be honest and fair when behaving in the classroom Intercultural behaviours ensure students are aware of the different cultures they are surrounded by and behave appropriately

Cross-Curriculum priorities - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures - Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia - Sustainability - Cross-curriculum priorities are important aspects of the Australian Curriculum as they take into account Indigenous Australians as Australia failed to improve educational outcomes for many Indigenous Australians, this needs to be the key priority over the next decade - Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia is important as India, China and other Asian nations are growing and their influence on the world is increasing. It is important for Australians to become ‘Asia literate’ to engage and build strong relationships with Asia - Sustainability is important as complex environmental, social and economic pressures such as climate change pose challenges, this requires countries to work together in new ways. Australian’s must be able to engage with scientific concepts and principles and approach problem-solving in new and creative ways Question 3 : Assessment, feedback and reporting. (3 aspects of graduate standard) - A key AITSL Graduate Standard is “Standard 5: Assess, provide feedback and report on students learning”. - Referring to your reading on assessment, reporting, NAPLAN and MySchool and the need for teachers to be data literate, comment on why you think this standard is a key feature of the graduate standards. Why is reporting and giving feedback important and comment on why that standard is a key standard Assessment - Assessment is the process of gathering and discussing information from multiple and diverse sources in order to develop a deep understand of what students know, understand and can do - Know students - Variety of assessments such as written, oral and practical - Principles of assessment: fairness, flexibility, validity, reliability - Purpose of assessment: • assess students are learning • where to next • how am I going (teaching) • assists teachers and parents to understand progress in student learning - one exam or test is not going to show how the students are going as it is only one test, it helps show a little bit on how the students are going but not fully - NAPLAN is an annual literacy and numeracy national assessment for all students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9. All students in these year levels are expected to participate in tests in reading, writing, language conventions and numeracy - The My School website assists parents, schools, governments and the wider community to better understand the performance of students in schools - My School enables schools to be compared to other schools serving students from statistically similar backgrounds, making it possible to identify and learn from school that are doing better than others

Feedback - Feedback is important provided by a teacher, peer, book, parent, self, experience regarding aspects of one’s performance or understanding - It is important for students to be able to receive feedback on their work to help them improve and modify their work - Feedback also benefits the teacher as feedback of student work can show the teacher how they are teaching and if their teaching is effective - Teachers can also receive feedback from students through teacher evaluation - Feedback is valuable information that will be used to make important decisions - Allows students and teachers to build and maintain communication with others - Helps students get on track, serves as ague to assist them to know how they and others perceive their performance - Diagnosis of where student are at - Reflection Reporting - Look at student assessment data (evidence) -> professional judgement -> report to parents...