Assessment Strategies How each Literacy session relates to the Australian Curriculum
Australian Exploration
Refugee and Australian Explorers: Just your very basic pose and response assessment approach. Have students answer questions based on direct read and respond or questions based in inference. English: Literacy: Were the students able identify the key points in the video? Did they write down the these key points? English: Literature: Higher ability group: Students ability to identify the position which the 'author' was in, in order to provide a piece of writing that accurately reflects the time period and situation. Lower ability group: students have been able to identify the issues that the explorers and their crew would have had to face. Not written in a narrative style piece of writing but rather a factual piece of writing. Mathematics: Measurement and Geography: Whole class: students ability to use a scale in order to determine the distance of the travel Higher ability: can the investigate further by converting cms to kms and kms to cms as well as how long will such a trip take in a car/plane within the 21st century.
Aboriginal Dreamtime stories
Australian Curriculum: English: Literature: Has the students dreamtime stories included the main aspects of a dreamtime story? the creation of a landmark or animal and the inclusion of the aboriginal people and animals and a sense of their connection to the Earth. Art 1: Students huts have been used 90% with natural materials in a design that accurately reflects the Aboriginal culture. Mathematics: Measurement and Geography: As mentioned in Australian Explorers: Whole class: students ability to use a scale in order to determine the distance of the travel Higher ability: can the investigate further by converting cms to kms and kms to cms as well as how long will such a trip take in a car/plane within the 21st century. Lower ability: can the students locate and highlight the trip on the map accurately based upon the story (I would personally make all students under go this task however it can sometimes be challenging for very low students). Art 2: Students ability to paint an Aboriginal art piece which reflects their chosen Dreamtime story as well as being able to represent an aspect of the story clearly through such art form.
Refugee Studies
Australian Curriculum:
English: Literature:
Students ability to justify their inferences based upon the schema
ICT:
Students ability to gather information from reliable sources, can students explain what a reliable source is? Visual Art: Students ability to accurately reflect and respond to the knowledge they have gained. Have they included the Sudanese landscape and the people along with the homes/towns they live in.
English: Literacy: Higher ability group: Students ability to identify the position which the 'author' was in, in order to provide a piece of writing that accurately reflects the time period and situation. Lower ability group: students have been able to identify the issues that refugee's have to experience in before migration, during and after. Not written in a narrative style piece of writing but rather a factual piece of writing.