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English Learning within the Essential Learnings Framework
The
Essential Learnings Framework embodies a set of agreed values which
underpin education, clarifies and affirms the key purposes of education,
builds a seamless curriculum from birth to year 10 and recognises and builds
on the strengths of existing curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices
in Tasmanian schools. The Essential Learnings clearly focus attention on
what is central to the curriculum and help educators determine what learners
should know, understand, value and be able to do.
Essential Learnings Framework 1
was launched in March 2002 and includes:
Essential
Learnings Framework 2 was launched in March 2003 and includes:
Resources
to help English teachers to implement the Essential Learnings
The Learning, Teaching and Assessment Guide (LTAG)
The LTAG is a dynamic and practical resource for educators and school
communities implementing the Essential Learnings.
Being Literate
This section of the LTAG provides English and literacy teachers
will comprehensive resources for planning teaching and assessing the Being
literate key element.
Planning Learning Sequences
This
booklet supports teachers’ individual and collective planning for the
Essential Learnings within their school’s curriculum design plan.
Unlocking Literacy
The Department of Education has published a literacy resource titled
Unlocking Literacy: Keys to success. The resource is based on best
practice and links reading and writing through the use of discussion,
thinking and questioning.
Assessing Guide
The Essential Learnings Assessing Guide is a ready reference for
planning and assessing and provides information about recommended assessing
practices and current requirements.
Essential Learnings Units with an English Focus
A range of new English
units and snapshots have been published on the Learning, Teaching and
assessment Guide.
A Teaching for Understanding Planning Proforma For English Teachers
A
planning proforma which highlights one way of planning English units or
learning sequences within the Essential Learnings Framework.
Initiating Authentic Dialogue in the English Classroom
A range of
strategies to help English teachers generate more effective discussion in
inquiry-driven learning environments.
Guiding Learning Communities
A
comprehensive set of resources designed to support school leaders
implementing the Essential Learnings Framework.
Connecting the Essential Learnings and the English Learning Area
This
brief paper outlines how English teachers can begin planning English
programs from the Essential Learnings.
Essential Learnings and the Key Learning Areas
The relationship
between the Learning Areas and Essential Learnings is described in this
paper prepared by the Curriculum Consultation team.
Quality Literature for Quality Integrated Learning
Jenni Connor uses the picture books
Memorial and In Flanders
Fields to highlight how she would use quality literature in an
integrated learning program.
Integrating English
Using ideas drawn from Kath Murdoch, David Hornsby, Julie Hamston, Jenni
Connor and others, Pam Powell explains how teachers designing integrated
units can ensure that quality learning experiences are planned.
Teaching for Understanding in the Secondary English Classroom
This paper introduces the Teaching for Understanding Framework using
examples from secondary English classrooms.
Whose Literary Inquiry Is It Anyway?
This paper outlines how students can be encouraged to create their own
critical questions about the texts that they are reading.
Using Key Questions in Inquiry Sequences in English
An introduction to framing effective key or guiding questions for
inquiry-based learning in the English classroom.
Being Critically Literate
The Being Literate Outcome sequence of the Essential Learnings is
underpinned by the Luke and Freebody four resources model. A key component
of this model is the use of critical literacies to analyse and construct
texts.
Inquiry-Based Learning: The Search for Information, Knowledge and Truth
This web site introduces teachers to key elements of inquiry-based learning
and how it differs from other pedagogical approaches.
Jeff Wilhelm Inspired Inquiry Units
Ros Walker introduces a series of exemplary units constructed
around an inquiry frame. These units are highly recommended for English
teachers who are exploring inquiry-based learning.
Picture Books that explore the Values of Education
Jennie Bales' collection of
picture books, designed to help teachers to explore the values underpinning
the Essential Learnings Framework, has been updated by Danae Bisset, a
teacher at Mowbray Heights Primary School and 2004 Tasmanian CBCA Judge.
Rubrics
This site shows teachers how to create and use rubrics.
The Graphic Organiser
Graphic organisers encourage good thinking. This site has links to a range
of useful graphic organisers.
Higher Order Thinking Skills
The site encourages English and literacy teachers to use Bloom’s taxonomy to
frame better questions about texts.
Good Guiding Questions
This paper describes how teachers can use questions to encourage
higher-order thinking.
Using Backward Design
An introduction to backward design using examples from the English
classroom.
Teaching For Understanding
This comprehensive site outlines how teachers can plan and teach for
understanding.
The Essential Learnings Lens
A visual model of the complex interrelationships between the Essential
Learnings and the Key Learning Areas.
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