First session a review of unpacking the Australian Curriculum. We looked at how to organise tasks although lots of unanswered questions in my head and the assessing of a standard/criteria but then doing this at different levels seemed to be a strange fit. However, I need to move on from this we’ve already created tasks and part created our own rubrics. Probably the biggest issue is that tasks need to be necessarily deeper and fewer, this is not a good fit with the quite large proportion of our clientele and their particular attendance patterns. So in actuality need more and smaller tasks….

Literacy / Strategies. Antony Yeats.
Emphasis of time with the student.
Film in the background (not sure about this in a science lab) the idea is to provide a slight distraction. Limits students own distractions.
Guide lines for working through a task.
Suggestion of music as another way … I’ve used on and off, depends on how teacher directed the learning method is at the time.
Grouping strategically – which we do around the task. Provides someone else to give attention.
Streamlining feedback. Generic feedback sheets and rubrics. Highlight comments that applied. Sending out example sheets.

Numeracy..
Where is your dot?
Tamara and Chris.
Nice activity. For creating a need. Example how do you know it is acidic?

The bulk of the day is developing our programmes along aus curriculum.