Introduction
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Welcome!
Welcome to the Introduction to the English Framework Workshop.
This workshop is designed to familiarise you with the English Framework and consider the parameters for teaching and assessment in English courses.
If you complete the activities to a satisfactory standard and submit them, then you will be entitled to claim completion and TQI hours.
Here is a link to the English Framework.
Prepare a document with your answers to the questions and when the training is completed, send the document to bsssenquiries@act.gov.au
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Cycle of Review for the English Framework?
Frameworks are required to align with Board endorsed policies
The Review of BSSS Senior Secondary Curriculum (2015) recommended that frameworks reflect coherence and consistency in design, format and quality.
The Shape of the ACT Senior Secondary Curriculum (2016) provides guidelines and design specifications, based on ACARA course design, and relevant to ACT context
There is a BSSS cycle of review- the next review of the English Framework is in 2025.
Reviews are cyclical or prompted by developments in our context. For example, after considering data and teacher feedback, the Bridging Literacy A/M course has been introduced.
ACARA has some minor revisions to the national curriculum courses underway as well. Our English courses, except Bridging Literacy, are derived directly from the national curriculum courses.
Context for Making Framework Changes
Australian Curriculum courses (P-10) and Senior Secondary courses were adopted by the ACT government for use in ACT schools.
BSSS Senior Secondary courses are aligned with Australian Curriculum courses P-10, and build on the learning.
A key difference from ACARA that affects our courses, is that units in courses do not have to be delivered sequentially, unlike Australian Curriculum
New developments in the discipline, e.g. technology, discoveries, student data, may generate a review.
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What are key features of the Framework?
Goals
Rationale
Achievement Standards
Task Type Table
What are the key features of a course?
rationale
unit specific goals
content descriptions
framework Achievement Standards and Task Type Table
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(The 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan of China reads during a public reading of his works at Aula Magna, at Stockholm University, on December 9, 2012. (Fredrik Sandberg/AFP/Getty Images)
How do the parts go together?
Teachers will consider the integration of the different parts of the curriculum in developing a Program of Learning that will engage students in learning in their context.
Activity: Introduction
Please consider the following:
How do ACT Senior English courses align with ACARA Australian Curriculum courses?
Record a paragraph in response.