| Designer: | Nicola Donaldson |
| Scope: | Document teacher workflows around NCEA prep |
Start of school year
- Nothing she has to do unless she wants to change an achievement task
- Most of the time I get told what to do
- I receive unit outlines
- TBD - breakdown of schedules and learning outcomes
- Specific activities or activities I have to do
- List of standards I have to run my class by and they have to be completed and marked by X date
- Doesn't plan anything until she meets her kids
- Meets kids first day of school
- Start with exam - evaluate capability
- Refer back to last years stuff to inform this exam
- Visible planning doc
- Covers specific learning outcomes, learning activities, questions, practice questions
- Do the plan
- If cool activities are included, she either makes them or finds them provided they match learning outcomes
- Adjust timelines based on how quickly the class learns
- Process for bringing in an expert?
- Find friend / scour network 2 weeks before event
- Ask them to come in
- They come in
- They talk about stuff for an hour
- They leave
- Unit standard vs achievement standard
- Can only pass or fail unit standard (achieved / not achieved) - faster - usually for kids who don't pass achievement standards
- Achievement standard have merit or excellence
- For achieved you just have to describe/state/name
- For merit or excellence you need to explain, analyze, discuss, justify - show thinking
Prep for internals vs prep for externals
- Internals
- 2-3 weeks of teaching - expert / activities would come in here
- 1-2 weeks of practice / full practice with loads of feedback
- 1-2 weeks for the internal where she is just supervising
- Externals
- 5-8 weeks of learning -
- Learn, practice, question
- Mock exam
- Then the real one
- Keywords
- Interactive, simulation, animation, for kids
- easy
- If I wanted to change something -
- Read title of achievement standard, and what each grade requires
- Refer to NZQA clarification - this provides more guidance about what you can and cant do while teaching this standard - also tells you how much help you are allowed to give
- Refer to exemplar tasks and they should get a judgement schedule and a marking schedule
- Judgement schedules provide examples for X grade ie: excellence is justifying your opinion and this is what this looks like
- Marking schedule
- Sometimes included in exemplars
- Quite literally how to grade
- Examplars of standards, answers etc