City Curriculum at Year 9Penny Geoghegan

Sunbury College, March 2005

•Rationale

•Program Development

•Implementation

•Evaluation

•Student Work

City Curriculum at Year 9

Rationale

•Middle Years Research

•Engagement

•Authentic Learning Tasks

•Victorian Essential Learning Standards

Three core, interrelated strands

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Discipline-based Learning

Interdisciplinary Learning

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Health and Physical Education

Interpersonal Development

Personal LearningCivics and Citizenship

Knowledge, skills and behaviours in

Discipline-based Learning

The ArtsEnglish and Languages

Other than EnglishThe HumanitiesMathematicsScience

Knowledge, skills and behaviours in

Interdisciplinary Learning

CommunicationDesign, Creativity and

TechnologyInformation and

Communications TechnologyThinking

Knowledge, skills and behaviours in

City Curriculum at Year 9

Program Development

•Pilot [City Centre]

•Fact Finding [Strathmore SC, Buckley Park SC]

•Reports & Proposals

•City Curriculum Team

•Meetings & Planning with KLAs

•Costings & Bookings

•Communication

City Curriculum at Year 9

Implementation – 2004 Program

•Group Investigation

•Information Technology

•KLA Tasks

•Discovery Trails

•Class Activities

•Campus Time

City Curriculum at Year 9

Implementation Continued

•Supporting Teachers

•Security

•Supervision

•Communication

•Principal Class

•Briefings

City Curriculum at Year 9

Evaluation

•Student

•Parent

•Teacher

•Principal Class

•Administration

City Curriculum at Year 9

2005 Program

•Civics & Citizenship Outcomes

•Planning Time

•Compulsory Discovery Trails

•Class Activities

•Campus Time – Groups’ Draft Presentations

•KLA Tasks

•Rigour