Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Stephanie Di Salvo
Acting Assistant Principal
2020 THEME - EMPOWERING LEARNING &
TEACHING
Reporting is the process of communicating comprehensive information about students learning and progress at a point in time. Reporting to students parents and carers, teachers and the systemn support decision making for future student learning.
2020 Semester 1 Student Progress Report
Given the disruption to normal classroom learning during Term 2, exercising teacher professional judgement in assessing student progress has been adjusted to ensure that reporting continues for Semester 1.
Jacana School for Autism has adopted a revised teaching and learning report for Semester 1, which includes:
- a description of the areas of the Victorian Curriculum taught
- a succinct descriptive assessment of student learning and progress based on the Achievement Standards in the Victorian Curriculum
- a description on how students has adjusted to the remote and flexible learning environment
- A five-point scale achievement score for each curriculum Learning Area will not be included in the Semester 1 report
The Semester 1 Student Progress Report will include learning and progress based on the Victorian Curriculum Learning Areas in:
- English
- Mathematics
- The Arts (Visual Arts, Media Arts, Music and Dance)
- Health & Physical Education
- The Humanities
- Technologies
- Personal & Social Capabilities.
The Semester 1 report will provide opportunity for:
- parents and carers to access their child's report in an accessible form that is easy to disseminate
- parents and carers and students to discuss the school report with their teacher during Term 3 Student Support Group (SSG) meetings
Education Week - STEAM Theme
Education Week was scheduled to take place from 17-23 May 2020 and its theme this year was STEAM Education. However, in response to coronavirus (COVID-19), it has been officially cancelled.
During the Flexible and Remote Learning period, the school community has demonstrated enormous resilience and flexibility to adapt to new modes of teaching and learning, which has resulted to teachers, students and families using See-Saw, Webex video conferencing platform and emails on a daily basis.
To acknowledge Education Week and to celebrate how the STEAM curriculum has continued to engage and probe curiosity within our students during remote learning, JSA will share photos and videos of students engaging in STEAM learning via our JSA Facebook and See-Saw.
You may wish to 'like' the photos and videos to support the sharing of student learning within our school community.
