Perth SymposiumForward Focus

2012 Hamish Valentine and Robert Henderson 2013 Executive Director initiates Symposium Jane Connolly and Warren Bath investigate possibilities

Feb 26 Proposal supported by the Year 7 to Secondary Coordinating Group

Visit to WA

Year 7 to secondaryThe Australian CurriculumChange in PAR structure

Western Australia has started

Greater access to data

Concern for the Adolescent learner2015

EQ Pilot Schools

• Transition

• Pedagogy

• Structures/ Organisation

FACTS• 28 BCE Colleges• 3 RI Colleges• 8 BCE Personnel• 5 Education Queensland Reps• Bob Knight QCEC• Carmel Nash P&F• 5 representatives from other

Queensland Diocese• 106 delegates in total

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Parents

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Forming connections with Primary Schools

The deliberate employment of teachers who want to teach Year 7 & 8

Mix of Primary and Secondary Teachers

Parents are transitioning as well

Not just about Year 7 – whole of secondary

Feedback from Participants

I found the symposium presentations very enlightening, both affirming what I knew and challenging me to think further on some aspects of the transition. The school visits were a highlight

We have found the last few days to be most beneficial in terms of the networking with our WA colleagues as well as our BCE colleagues, RI schools and Ed Qld representatives. We have been most impressed by the calibre of guest speakers and the extensive variety of professionals who have generously given their time to explain their own context which has helped to affirm some of the work we have already begun in our own school.

I am just writing to thank you for the planning and organization of such a venture and for providing us with the opportunity to be part of this worthwhile event. We found that, not only did it offer us insights and new ideas and possibilities for our own journey at St Francis College, it also affirmed for us much of what we have begun and are continuing to develop in our Middle Years Phase of Learning.

WHERE TO FROM HERESpecific teaching skills for classroom management of lower level students.Strategies for team teaching.Behaviour management micro skills

secondary teachers in primary schools investigating different approaches

I likes the idea of the High school teachers spending time in Primary Uear 7 classes.

Current Secondary Teachers need to know more about what is currently being taught in Years 6 and 7. They need to be able to visit Primary schools, talk to the teachers, see the work being completed and be able to get programs. This all takes time for them to do, and they should be able to access substantial time release (like 5 days minimum per teacher in 2014) to be able to do this.

A session in a primary school classroom or a workshop with primary teachers on how to engage and sustain curiosity, structure differentiated learning activities, and timing sequences of learning.

Writing Integrated units of work!

on site, engaging, seen as purposeful

Attending a Primary school classroomPD on stages of the development of the adolescent brain

How to relate to middle school studentsHow to engage middle school students in 2014 and beyond

We are continuing to focus on Visible Learning practices and this will be a significant focus for the preparation of learning & teaching of Year 7.

I think we're fine, but probably looking at young adolescent learners.

I anticipate staff will be interessted in better understanding he ways in which young adolescents think and learn and how to organise learning so that it is effeccive and engaging for Year 7s.

More middle schooling concepts need to be explained from a pedagogy background.

Middle School philosophy - learners, teaching, assessment

Anything related to dealing with the typical issues that this age group finds challenging.Anything that highlights the cognitive differences between these learners and the learners that Secondary Schools are currently familiar with

Intergration of learning principles of young adolescent learners

Middle Schooling Literacy and numeracy

We have an established Year 7 to Secondary Working Party. This group together with readings provided to us in preparation for the WA Symposium plus our learnings from this event will inform the October Twilight for our College.

Aspects of all of the areas deailed in section 6 above

Yr 7 is already sucessfully integrated into our Middle Phase

Integration across the curriculum, developing student centred rather than subject centred learning

Need some very practical whole school strategies for assisting students with organisation, homework and assessment.

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Plan with and have conversations with feeder Primary Schools

Secondary teachers in Primary Schools

Understanding the Adolescent Learner

Deepening primary teachers knowledge of secondary curriculum

Authentic Parent Involvement in Secondary Colleges