Professional Support
Step by step process for designing an assessment program for the Stage 6 Preliminary course.
Using a standards-referenced approach.
Description of how Hornsby Girls High School implemented the Extension 2 course.
Report from Curriculum Support newsletter No, 2000.
Using the fundamentals of English course at Oberon High School for students needing support int the Standard English course.
External analysis of HSC visual media texts provides students with a unique means of exploring areas of the syllabus such as change, power play or experience through language.
Providing effective feedback.
For students with Special Education needs.
This article from Curriculum Support newsletter, No. 2, 2001, responds to questions asked by English teachers relating particularly to assessment and the "four approaches".
This article addresses some of the basic language of hypermedia, raises issues about reading and interacting with hypermedia texts and compares the process of reading print texts and hypermedia texts.
This article addresses some of the basic language of hypermedia, raises issues about reading and interacting with hypermedia texts and compares the process of reading print texts and hypermedia texts.
Points to consider, discussion questions to analyse and reflect on what reports are to achieve and ways of doing this.
An example of teaching initiatives and strategies used in a combined classroom.
Choosing a course and addressing the needs of ESL students.
Discussion of the purpose of this part of the Stage 6 English course and differences between it and the modules.
An example of a co-ordinated approach to programming the course.
The syllabus allows teaching practice to synthesise some new considerations because it takes into account contemporary developments in critical theory and literacy education.
Factors such as socio-economic status, culture, geographic location and language background interact with gender to impact on students' development of literacy skills.
HSC 2004-2006 English Standard texts are set out in text categories.
Download the grid to provide a handy checklist of current texts and text categories for both teachers and students.