Resources Distributed to Schools

Developed to provide teachers with practical curriculum support in the effective use of computer-based technologies in teaching and learning. It is especially targeted at classroom teachers, including those with little or no experience of computer-based technologies, and aims to provide advice and ideas to enhance student learning.These documents were distributed to all NSW government primary school teachers in 1997.

This cross-platform CD-ROM has been developed by the Multicultural Education Unit to assist ESL students in intensive English centres and isolated areas who require additional support in language learning. It consists of five units, each based in a Key learning Area. The 24 lessons and 78 activities are divided into 47 language outcomes referenced to the ESL scales. This resource has been distributed to all secondary, central and primary schools.

Resources for teaching and learning activities about body image and gender in primary school PDHPE and English programs.

Resources for teaching and learning activities about body image and gender. The school pack contains units of work for Stage 3, Stage 4 and Stage 5. Also included is the T-Ed magazine, poster and brochure.

Continuity of literacy development Years 5-8 is the product of one component of the NSW State Literacy Strategy that aims to mitigate the sometimes negative impact on students of the process of transition from Stage 3 in primary to Stage 4 in secondary school.

Teaching reading: a K-6 framework.NSW Dept. of School Education, 1997 (Literacy) ISBN 0731083431 [428.407]
This book aims to provide a guide to the systematic teaching of reading from Kindergarten to Year 6 within the context of the English K-6 Syllabus. Understanding reading is an explanation of the elements of reading; and Teaching and learning covers programming, assessment and strategies. Organising for instruction suggests organisation of literacy sessions and text selection. Also included are teaching and learning programs and examples. Many programming ideas are included in this book.

Consistent teacher judgement in action is a resource that provides workshop materials for schools. The workshops deal with a range of issues in developing consistency in teachers' judgements of students' achievements of syllabus outcomes for English K-6. The resource was developed in response to a growing need for guidelines and strategies to support an outcomes approach to teaching, learning, assessing, reporting and school planning. The central focus of the resource is to ensure teachers' professional judgements are used in ways that provide valid, reliable and meaningful information about student achievement to students, teachers, parents and the wider community. A copy of the resource was sent to all primary and central schools in Term 3 2002. Further information about the resource, and district implementation strategies, can be obtained from CTJ contacts located in each district office.