A) Examine a course you are working with to find elements in the content descriptions and specific unit goals.

Note the interaction between content descriptions and Achievement Standards:

e.g. science Achievement Standards specifies individual and collaborative investigations, so where investigations are mentioned in Content Descriptions, some might be collaborative

B) Write about how your Programs of Learning and assessment suites might accommodate collaborative exercises and learning how to collaborate.

"4.3.7 

The Board recognises that it is an appropriate educational goal for senior secondary students to be encouraged and guided to:

·  develop and demonstrate their capability to work as an effective member of a team

·  share in identifying appropriate group objectives, the setting of feasible goals, time lines and procedures

·  identify and implement appropriate roles and responsibilities.

If teamwork and group work are proposed as goals of a year 11 - 12 course, then the nature of the group work should be articulated in the teaching/learning strategies and in the types of assessment tasks listed for that course. The criteria by which the quality of student achievement will be judged should be clearly articulated.

Documentation of group work should clearly delineate in what respect a student’s assessment will be as an individual within the group, or in what way the group will be assessed as a whole.  There may be limits on the extent to which the assessment of an individual may take place within a group.

Factors such as the group size, and the nature and complexity of the assessment task may need to be considered. 

All group work needs to be assessed through the use of criteria, clearly stated in the course document. 

If group work forms a significant component of a unit, more than one teacher should be involved in marking that work."