ED 2135 QUESTION 4 BOARD OF STUDIES.

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Question 4
The Board of studies provides materials to guide you in your Teaching. Detail carefully what they have available for your teaching area, how you go about locating it, how it is used for programming and how you use these resources for preparing a series of lessons.


Visual Arst stage 4-5 yrs 7-10

Stage 5 Visual Arts Course Performance Descriptors
(to be used for School Certificate grading from 2006)
Word format
(48pp, 285k)
Acrobat PDF
(48pp, 118k)

Guide to the Years 7–10 Syllabus
Acrobat PDF
(4pp, 88K)

Advice on Programming and Assessment
Word format
(46pp, 552K)
Acrobat PDF
(46pp, 464K)

Life Skills Outcomes Worksheet
Word format
(1p, 40KB)
Acrobat PDF
(1p, 52KB)

Stage 5 Visual Design Course Performance Descriptors
(to be used for School Certificate grading from 2006)
Word format
(48pp, 285k)
Acrobat PDF
(48pp, 119k)

Guide to the Years 7–10 Syllabus
Acrobat PDF
(4pp, 120K)

Years 7-10 Life Skills: Advice on Planning, Programming and Assessment
Word format
(248pp, 1.85MB)
Acrobat PDF
(248pp, 1.38MB)

Advice on Programming and Assessment
Word format
(42pp, 640K)
Acrobat PDF
(42pp, 1.2MB)

Life Skills Outcomes Worksheet
Word format
(1p, 40KB)
Acrobat PDF
(1p, 52KB)

The board of studies seems to suffer the same fate as the taxation Department often people miss understand it's intentions, Its true like the Tax system we need to be accountable and pay our due to the selected area of teaching make sure we create and construct programs that address the Curriculum and criteria of : Aims , Objectives, Outcomes, Content and fair assessment.
And just like Taxation documents are daunting and seem to speak another language, the Syllabus document seems the same. It can be confusing establishing an understanding of what the tasks relationship will be to the outcomes and what the students learn to and about.
But, just like the Taxation department can provide a wealth of information on how things work and requirements so I am please to say so can the board of studies site.
Advice on programing and Assessment is invaluable for building comprehensive understanding on criteria, scope & Sequence, Tasks, assessment and units of work / research, how all this connects to syllabus and outcomes criteria.
Resource material and teaching strategies and theories information for teachers
Evaluation, recording, reports and registers. Advice on of program evaluation.
It's important to stay connected to our wider teacher community to find consistency in what we are doing as educators. during my experiences of writing up Art department Programs I found the Board of studies site invaluable and I bookmark areas I need to access.