Albany Senior High School/Curriculum plans/Social Studies

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Vision

At Albany Senior High School

• we nurture each other
• we inspire each other
• we empower each other

How will we contribute to the realisation of the school’s vision?

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Values

• Excellence in all that we do.
• Warm, mutually respectful relationships.
• Families as part of our learning community.
• Fairness, openness, honesty and trust.
• Learning together and making decisions together.
• Using evidence and reflection to make decisions.
• Curiosity and enquiry, creativity and innovation.
• Contributing to our local and global communities.
• Protecting and enhancing the environment.
• Diversity that enriches our learning community.

How will we affirm and promote the school’s values?

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Expectations

Expectations for teaching and learning including embedding ICTs

1. How will our teaching and learning meet the school’s expectations for 21st century pedagogy based on current research?

Aligned with the ASHS teaching portrait and school curriculum and assessment policy How will we ensure students: Know what they are learning and why? Connect learning to real life situations? Have multiple opportunities to build on existing knowledge? Examine and use new knowledge? Have time to reflect on their learning? >>

2. How will our assessment promote effective learning?

<< Aligned with the ASHS school curriculum and assessment policy>>

3. What does an effective 100-minute lesson look like?

<<An annotated 100-minute lesson template >> Exemplars of 100-minute lessons How will we cater for difference? How will we identify and address students at risk of not achieving? Gifted and talented students? How will we know about our students prior knowledge?

Key competencies

How will we develop each of the key competencies in the learning area? How will we promote the split screen? These are a means and an end.

Thinking Using language symbols and texts  Managing self  Relating to others Participating and contributing

Curriculum design

What do we want our students to learn and/or develop? 

<<Matrix of AOs and indicators from the curriculum and the standards that will support their development Course design template Exemplar of a course

Quality assurance

How will we ensure that standards are transparent, clear, reliable, valid and fair?

<<See NZQA Teachers’ Handbook>>

Self review

What data will we collect and how will we use it?

<< See data plan >>