1. Teacher librarians as innovators and collaborators
in the Australian Curriculum:
Unpacking the Australian Curriculum
Lee FitzGerald, Lecturer in Teacher librarianship, Charles Sturt University
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14. The new Arts curriculum:
Same organisation as all others
Go to F-10 Curriculum and use the filters.
Play with filtering out Band descriptions, Content
descriptions, and Achievement standards, so you can see
the differences.
15.
16. Go to the Scope and Sequence for
summary of content descriptions and
skills.
It is in the skills areas
that we can work to
create our inquiry
tasks.
17. Reflect/Discuss
How familiar with AC
are you? Rate
yourself: 0-5
How are you using it?
Which parts have you
explored?
Your role in inservicing / leading
staff? How have you
done this?
Your biggest need?
19. Existing units of work and inquiry tasks
English for the
Australian curriculum
http://e4ac.edu.au/units/year10/index.html
Seems to be
plenty of units
but very few
assessment
tasks fully
fleshed out.
25. Some burning
questions!
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26. Two bright stars in the TL
firmament in Inquiry!
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27. Mandy Lupton
Read: Lupton, Mandy. Inquiry skills in the Australian Curriculum, Access,
June 2012, p12-18
Watch: Inquiry in the Australian Curriculum – A bird’s-eye view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlePUh1ogY
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28. A bird’s eye view
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29.
30. Reflect/Discuss
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Reflect/Discuss:
Look at Handout 1 F-10
Inquiry skills and relationship
with CCT and ICT
Comments?
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•
How familiar with the
curriculum are you?
Rate yourself: 0-5
How do you use it in
planning with teachers?
Which parts have you
explored?
–
Key questions?
Content
descriptions?
Achievement
standards?
Elaborations?
Rationale?
Aims? Cross
curriculum
priorities?
General
capabilities?
Units of work?
Assessment
tasks? Work
samples?
What is your role in inservicing / leading staff?
How have you done
this?
Discuss at your tables:
Feedback afterwards.
31. Karen Bonanno
Mapping curriculum skills and capabilities to an
inquiry learning framework.
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37. So, where’s the spine?
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45. Strong new
scaffolding of
Inquiry:
Guided Inquiry
Design.
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46. Kuhlthau, C.C., Maniotes, L., & Caspari, A.. (2012).
Guided inquiry design: A framework for inquiry
in your school. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries
Unlimited.
47. What’s new in Guided Inquiry Design?
• Five kinds of learning:
• Curriculum content
• Information Literacy
• Learning how to learn
• Literacy competency
• Social Skills
• Information Search Process simplified
48. What’s new in Guided Inquiry Design?
• Whole units delivered by inquiry
• Inquiry community and Inquiry circles
• 6C’s: Collaboration, Conversation, Composition,
Choosing, Charting, and Continuing
• Journals, logs and inquiry charts
• Reflection throughout
• Culmination conversation
49. Inquiry circles
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Ancient Egypt
Slave, prisoner
or adventurer
Holocaust
Narrabeen Man
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54. Inquiry circle group tasks
Question focus
formulation
Pair/share/pair
Ideas cluster
55. Some inquiry circle scaffolds
• Question focus formulation
• Pair Share Pair protocol
• Ideas cluster
56. Your individual tasks
• Reflection sheets
• Take notes on Evernote, do bibliography on Easybib.
• Develop an inquiry question
• Answer your inquiry question in an essay of up to 2000 words.
62. Questions in the SLIM (School Library Impact
Measure) Toolkit reflection sheets
1. Write the title that best describes your research project at this time.
2. Take some time to think about your research topic. Now write down
what you know about this topic.
3. What interests you about this topic?
4. How much do you know about this topic? Check () one box that
best matches how much you know. Nothing, Not much, Some, Quite
a bit and A great deal
5. Write down what you think is EASY about researching your topic.
6. Write down what you think is DIFFICULT about researching your
topic.
7. Write down how you are FEELING now about your project. Check
() only the boxes that apply to you. Confident, Disappointed,
Relieved, Frustrated, Confused, Optimistic, Uncertain, Satisfied,
Anxious or Other.
63. Research questions (SLIM adaptation)
1. What do you know about your topic?
2. Have you any particular difficulties relating to
your topic?
3. What have you learnt from this Guided Inquiry?
4. Describe your feelings are you progressed
through the stages of the Information Search
process – Initiation, Selection,
Formulation/Exploration, Collection and
Presentation.
65. Kate M: the perfect researcher
Why has the Spartan failure at Thermopylae been immortalised?
Facts, explanations and conclusions - at RS1, 2, 3 and essay
35
30
25
20
Fact
Explanation
15
ConclusionC1
Conclusion C2
10
Conclusion C3
5
0
1
2
3
Kate M
Essay 23, Process 10
Essay
66. Ailish R – a diligent and thoughtful scholar
Discuss the differing perspectives highlighted in the historical debate on the
location of Atlantis.
Facts, explanations and conclusions - at RS1, 2, 3 and essay
60
50
40
Fact
30
Explanation
ConclusionC1
Conclusion C2
20
Conclusion C3
10
0
1
2
3
Ailish Ro
Essay 24, process 9
Essay
68. Any questions?
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•
How familiar with the
curriculum are you?
Rate yourself: 0-5
How do you use it in
planning with teachers?
Which parts have you
explored?
–
Key questions?
Content
descriptions?
Achievement
standards?
Elaborations?
Rationale?
Aims? Cross
curriculum
priorities?
General
capabilities?
Units of work?
Assessment
tasks? Work
samples?
What is your role in inservicing / leading staff?
How have you done
this?
Discuss at your tables:
Feedback afterwards.
