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BOSTES UPdate
Howard JacobsInspector, Languages
AIS ConferenceFriday 18 July 2014
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BOSTES
• Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards
• Merged with Institute of Teachers in January this year
• What is the Board?
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Review of Languages Education
• The Minister has signed off the Review and its findings/proposals which were endorsed earlier in the year by the Board
• Consultation report is on the BOSTES website• Final report will be posted early August• First step will be the formation of the Languages
Advisory Panel
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Review of Languages Education
• Growth• Valuing languages education• Incentives and barriers• Coordination and collaboration• Promotion• Implementation
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Review of Languages Education
• A Languages Policy for NSW• A Primary KLA• A communications strategy• Curriculum development with greater flexibility• Greater collaboration• What will be mandatory
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Australian Curriculum• Current syllabuses effective – implementation subject
to stakeholder consultation – no time frame
• New syllabuses will be developed and implemented only after stakeholder consultation
• Challenges identified through NSW consultation and supported by the Board
Development of Board outcomes
Need for a framework
Use of English
Continuity/flexibility
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Extension and Background Speaker Prescriptions
• Survey on BOSTES website to determine new Extension and BS texts for 2019-2023 open until mid 2015
• Mediocre response to date• Film festivals are a great source of potential
material
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Latin Continuers and Extension Prescriptions
• Survey to determine new Latin Continuers and Extension 2016-2023 has officially closed.
• Use of dictionaries for Continuers a possibility• Historiography to replace Philosophy in
Extension
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The best 10 units• Best source of information is the UAC report on
Scaling• Scaled mean - the average academic achievement
of the course candidature is an important measure as is the spread of marks (standard deviation)
• In terms of unit inclusion, the range is 40% to over 80% French Ext is 86% and French Beginners 78%.
• Remember that lots of students who do a language do more than 10 units