Focus Area: Prof 5.1

Transforming Tasks: Students do the Thinking

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Two Observations completed by the school principal Classroom Context  During Term 1 and 2 of 2021, I worked with a Year 6/7 class on a Friday. The students had mixed literacy and mathematical abilities ranging from a year 5 to a year 7 level. There were eight Year 6 students, four girls and four boys, […]

Hands-On Mathematics Activities

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Journey to Proficient  School Context, 2020 During 2020, I completed a 12-month contract with a year 6/7 mainstream class at a complex site that required EALD, ATSI and trauma informed practice. It is a category 3 school (Department for Education, 2020), located 11 kilometres from Adelaide’s CBD. Most students come from a mid to low […]

Managing a Complex Classroom: Novel Study and Poetry Unit

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Journey to Proficient  School Context, 2020 During 2020, I completed a 12-month contract with a year 6/7 mainstream class at a complex site that required EALD, ATSI and trauma informed practice. It is a category 3 school (Department for Education, 2020), located 11 kilometres from Adelaide’s CBD. Most students come from a mid to low […]

Year 7 to Year 8 Transition Project

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Journey to Proficient  School Context, 2020 During 2020, I completed a 12-month contract with a year 6/7 mainstream class at a complex site that required EALD, ATSI and trauma informed practice. It is a category 3 school (Department for Education, 2020), located 11 kilometres from Adelaide’s CBD. Most students come from a mid to low […]

Managing a Complex Classroom: Integrating the Big 6 of Reading

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Journey to Proficient  School Context, 2020 During 2020, I completed a 12-month contract with a year 6/7 mainstream class at a complex site that required EALD, ATSI and trauma informed practice. It is a category 3 school (Department for Education, 2020), located 11 kilometres from Adelaide’s CBD. Most students come from a mid to low […]