BOARD OF STUDIES WEBSITE - RESEARCH

WEBSITE IN GENERAL

The board of studies website has thorough and precise information for both teachers and students. However while the information is extremley helpful, there are countless numbers of links on the website, and finding your way around does take some getting used too. Just recognising where the Website Index was took me a little longer than I assumed it would, although I think that if i had of followed the task and spent 10 full minutes exploring the site first, I would have had a much better grip of where everything was.

ADVICE ON PROGRAMMING AND ASSESMENT

What are programmes?

Programmes are sets of plans that guide individual teachers in their selection of lesson outcomes, content, teaching stratergies, resources and assesment procedures.

Each Programme should have

1. A rationale

2. Aims

3. Outcome statements

4. Content statements

5. Teaching stratergy statements

6.Assesment guidelines

There are three types of programming

1. Content - based programming

2. Activities based programming

3. Outcomes based programming

YEAR 10 SYLLABUSES FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

WHAT TYPE OF PROGAMME IS THIS SYLLABUS ?

This new syllabus uses all three types of programmes. It includes consideration of outcomes or teaching stratergies ( content-based). It provides some idea's for activities and learning expeirences (activitiy based), which can be seen on slide 13. And it has information on what students should be able to do on completion of the programme (outcomes-based).

WHAT I HAVE FOUND

After finding my way through the website I was able to find the syllabuses for my major for teaching, Personal development, health and physical education. This was presented in either a powerpoint or a PDF file. However the powerpoint was much nicer to look at, as it is colouful and uses diagrams to represent important aspects of the syllabus such as outcomes and objectives. The syllabus uses graphs and diagram's to help develop a better undesrtanding for teachers of how to use the information the syllabus is providing to them. The use of mind maps, table's and charts allow teachers to better organise and plan how they are going to adapt the syllabus to their teaching programme.

HOW CAN I USE THIS

When I start teaching, even for my prac, these syllabuses are going to be my life line's. They will be the most important documents we will use as teachers. The tables and self assesment sheets in particular are all very adaptable, and I would definitly be applying them to my teaching. The answers to the questions are all very clear and precise, and I will be refering back to the text continously. In particular I will refer to the last page, which is help along the way. This provides details of other documents I can use to assist in my planning, preperation and teaching.