Date/Time:

22/02/2023 - 19/09/2023 - 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Event Categories:

• Building Teacher Excellence
• Professional Learning

Description:

This four-year project aims to support independent schools of South Australia with the roll out of the revised Australian Curriculum v.9 (AC v.9) Years F-10 across the eight learning areas. This project will provide support through workshops and focus groups (health checks) in 2023 and 2024, and through continued learning and planning support in 2025 and 2026.

Face to face support:

In 2023 a ‘leading leaders to lead’ model of professional learning will be offered to school leaders with core responsibility for curriculum implementation and the development and leadership of teaching, learning, assessment and reporting practices.

Through whole day workshops and learning area and stage of schooling ‘health checks’, participating leaders will be supported to successfully lead their school through stages connected with the familiarisation and implementation of the revised Australian Curriculum (AC) v.9.

In semester one practical face to face whole day workshop will focus on:

• an exploration of the implications of the revised AC v.9 for schooling and the implementation and enactment of the curriculum through teaching and learning programs
• an investigation into changes and revisions in connection to the three dimensions of the AC v.9
• workshopping of the interactivity of the new AC v.9 website and of resources
• protected time to map and plan bespoke school approaches for familiarisation and implementation of the AC v.9 (across all stages of schooling and in all eight learning areas) with support from AISSA Senior Educational Consultants and teacher experts.

Health checks for continued support

In semester two, stage of school/learning area health checks will be offered through an online platform to schools who have participated in whole day face to face workshops in semester one. These health checks will provide ongoing support in relation to the leadership of this work in schools. Further strategies and resources to support familiarisation, implementation and the monitoring and evaluation of this work will also be shared in these health checks.

Online support

Attendance at face-to-face meetings is the highly recommended first option for schools interested in participating in this practical and hands-on project.

However, to support schools unable to attend face-to-face workshops, recorded sessions focusing on the eight learning areas and for school leaders with responsibility for year levels F-6 and 7-10 will be available from the start of term 2, 2023. These recorded sessions will contain modified content from full day workshops and will provide a suggested structure for leading conversations and learning in schools in relation to familiarisation and implementation of the AC v.9.

Leaders of curriculum and learning areas are encouraged to register for one or multiple workshops and focus groups in alignment with school priorities. It is recommended that where possible a learning area specialist or classroom teacher with responsibility for a specific learning area attends these workshops with school leaders.

Registrations for this project can be made by completing this form.

Attendees are asked to register for all sessions they wish to attend, applicable to their context: