Teaching Resource and Professional Development

For Teaching English 3, you are required to develop a portfolio to demonstrate your knowledge of teaching and programming in Senior English. These resources will showcase your deep understanding of the Stage 6 Syllabus, Area of Study, Prescriptions, and Examinations. See templates and samples in class for guides. 

Choose to focus on one of the ATAR English HSC Year 12 syllabus courses (English Standard OR English Advanced OR English Studies OR English EAL/D), and ensure you carefully read all the syllabus documents for your chosen course. 

1. Practitioner Resource Development : Scope and Sequence
   Design a Scope and Sequence for the year for the above course, which will also be used in your Program. First determine and state the hours and frequency of lessons per week including duration (for example, 60min x 4 = 4 hours per week). This will help you determine how many weeks you spend on each module to ensure you are meeting mandatory hours per module. Please use the NESA school calendar for the current year when planning your scope. Include a term-by-term timeline mapping out the weeks for each module (including clearly showing where Craft of Writing/ Focus on Writing is scheduled if concurrent), assessments, exam period (Trials), prescribed texts, text requirements and outcomes. Due date for submission Week 5 Monday 21st March, 2022 @11.59.

Program for Standard, Advanced, EAL/D, or English Studies

This assessment is designed to equip you to plan and design an effective teaching and learning program for HSC English. Your program should include the following elements:

1. Class Overview
Choose to focus on one of the ATAR English Year 12 HSC syllabus courses (English Standard OR English Advanced OR English Studies OR English EAL/D), consistent with your Resource Portfolio. In a table state the hours and frequency of lessons per week including duration (for example, 60min x 4 = 4 hours per week), the proposed class, including gender, ICSEA, language backgrounds, class size, demographics, etc.

2. Prescribed Texts
Briefly justify your choice of prescribed texts for each module. Justification should link to the module descriptions. 

3. Writing in HSC English
For Standard and Advanced, Module C: The Craft of Writing may be studied concurrently with the Common Module and/or Modules A and B or studied separately. For EAL/D, the writing unit is called Focus on Writing and it is studied concurrently with Modules A, B, and C throughout the year. For English Studies there is no writing module.

If you have chosen Standard or Advanced, develop written activities that targets one particular writing skill for Module C: The Craft of Writing. You must: 1) Clearly explain how the activities will develop students' writing skills and prepare them for the demands of the HSC exam. 2) Provide accompanying worksheet(s). 

This writing task needs to focus on a language/grammar aspect (not language techniques, text types or vocabulary) but basic writing skills that can go across the board to help improve students’ writing at a fundamental level e.g., the conventions of syntax, punctuation, grammar, cohesion and sentence construction. Pick one skill to focus on and consider it in relation to strengthening student’s abilities to produce highly crafted imaginative, discursive, persuasive and/or informative texts. Grammar and language needs to be taught in context with a purpose so it should not be traditional grammar activities in isolation. 

If you have chosen EAL/D, complete activities 1 and 2 in relation to the expectations of the EAL/D HSC examination and Focus on Writing. If you have chosen English Studies, complete activities 1 and 2 in relation to the expectations of the English Studies HSC examination.

  Due date:  Week 8. Monday 11th April, 2022.