2. • Students
• Parents
• Teachers

3. Transition
Pedagogy
Structures/ Organisation

4. Perth
Symposium
Forward Focus

6. Forming connections with Primary Schools
The deliberate employment of Primary
Teachers for Year 7 and 8
Parents are transitioning as well
Not just about Year 7 – whole of secondary

7. WHERE TO FROM HERE
Specific teaching skills for classroom management of lower level students.
Strategies for team teaching.
Behaviour management micro skills
secondary teachers in primary schools investigating different approaches
I likes the idea of the High school teachers spending time in Primary Uear 7 classes.
Current Secondary Teachers need to know more about what is currently being taught in Years 6 and 7. They need to be able to visit Primary
schools, talk to the teachers, see the work being completed and be able to get programs. This all takes time for them to do, and they should be able
to access substantial time release (like 5 days minimum per teacher in 2014) to be able to do this.
A session in a primary school classroom or a workshop with primary teachers on how to engage and sustain curiosity, structure differentiated
learning activities, and timing sequences of learning.
Writing Integrated units of work!
on site, engaging, seen as purposeful
Attending a Primary school classroom
PD on stages of the development of the adolescent brain
How to relate to middle school students
How to engage middle school students in 2014 and beyond
We are continuing to focus on Visible Learning practices and this will be a significant focus for the preparation of learning & teaching of Year 7.
I think we're fine, but probably looking at young adolescent learners.
I anticipate staff will be interessted in better understanding he ways in which young adolescents think and learn and how to organise learning so
that it is effeccive and engaging for Year 7s.
More middle schooling concepts need to be explained from a pedagogy background.
Middle School philosophy - learners, teaching, assessment
Anything related to dealing with the typical issues that this age group finds challenging.
Anything that highlights the cognitive differences between these learners and the learners that Secondary Schools are currently familiar with
Intergration of learning principles of young adolescent learners
Middle Schooling
Literacy and numeracy
We have an established Year 7 to Secondary Working Party. This group together with readings provided to us in preparation for the WA
Symposium plus our learnings from this event will inform the October Twilight for our College.
Aspects of all of the areas deailed in section 6 above
Yr 7 is already sucessfully integrated into our Middle Phase
Integration across the curriculum, developing student centred rather than subject centred learning
Need some very practical whole school strategies for assisting students with organisation, homework and assessment.

8. Areas of focus
 Integration of learning principles of young adolescent learners
 Developing good, data informed practices to change school culture?
 Integration of middle schooling principles into the timetable?
 Implementation of the Australian Curriculum for Year 7 and 8
 Templates for auditing school action on curriculum/pedagogy
 Plan with and have conversations with feeder Primary Schools
 Secondary teachers in Primary Schools
 Understanding the Adolescent Learner
 Deepening primary teachers knowledge of secondary curriculum

9. Support and resourcing opportunities
Planning and teaching
• What - Australian Curriculum

10. The Curriculum

11. Scope and Status of Curriculum Areas 7-10
Years 7-8 Years 9-10
Core
Religion
English
Mathematics
Science
Humanities & Social Sciences
o History
o Geography
o Civics & Citizenship
o Economics & Business
HPE
Arts
Languages
Technologies
Religion
English
Mathematics
Science
History
HPE
+
Electives from other curriculum
areas + Work Studies (to be renamed)
 Fact

12. Percentage of time for core curriculum areas across years of schooling
P-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9 10
% core
curriculum
time
73% 80% 80% 86% 55% 53%
%
unallocated
time
27% 20% 20% 14% 45% 47%

13. Priority and Emphasis in Learning
 In the upper primary years and the first years of lower secondary schooling,
the Australian Curriculum continues to prioritise English and literacy and
Mathematics and numeracy, along with the opportunity for a broad
education drawing from each of the eight learning areas outlined in the
Melbourne Declaration. The Australian Curriculum across these years of
schooling provides core or common learning opportunities, while also
providing opportunities for students to deepen their learning in particular
areas according to their interests and needs.
(Shape of the Australian Curriculum v4.0, 2012, 38)
 Consideratio
n

14. Rather than being self-contained or fixed, disciplines are
interconnected, dynamic and growing. A discipline-based
curriculum should allow for cross-disciplinary learning that
broadens and enriches each student’s learning.
The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Version 4.0

15. Support and resourcing opportunities
For Planning and teaching
• How – Model of Pedagogy

16. The model of pedagogy

17. Support and resourcing opportunities
 Building collaborative partnerships &
opportunities across primary & secondary

18. A way forward
 Some thoughts:
 Curriculum literacies
 Master Class
 Planning for Year 7/8
 Organisation of learning – timetable
Time to organise and plan for 2014
 Date: October 28