• 26 March – Yr 12 Academic Reports Available to parents (COMPASS)
• 31 March – Yr 12 PTS Interviews
• 1 April – 7-10 Tracking Reports Available to parents (COMPASS)

High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS) 

“DIFFERENTIATED TEACHING”

Methods teachers use to “Extend” the knowledge and skills of EVERY student in EVERY class, regardless of their STARTING POINT. The objective is “to lift” the performance of ALL students, including those who are falling behind and those ahead of year level expectations.

Differentiated teaching provides appropriate challenge for all students in a class. It does so by responding to student differences in readiness, interest and learning profile.

Numeracy in 2021

At the core of a successful numeracy plan is a clear mapping of student numeracy skills with the level of skill required to understand and engage in curriculum content successfully. This requires both the analysis of students’ skills and identification of the level of numeracy skills and demands within syllabus content. Explicit teaching of numeracy needs to occur when there are gaps between students’ numeracy skills and syllabus numeracy demands. This process involves:

• identification of students existing numeracy skills
• identification of numeracy skills required by students to engage successfully with curriculum content
• planning of the explicit teaching of the required numeracy skills to bridge the gap

Now what?

Best Start and PAT testing will be used this term to identify deficits in student’s numeracy skills. Year 7 programs are being used to identify and map explicit teaching opportunities across KLA’s (HSIE, SCIENCE, PDHPE, TAS and MATHS) to create a common approach to teaching numeracy and common language for students to develop cross KLA skill transfer. Maths teachers will provide expertise and support to enable all teachers to engage with this in their classrooms.

Ms Judith Tolomeo

Curriculum Coordinator