Seeking workplace information - ABOVE
In groups, students visited workplaces that most closely aligned with their interests. Students were asked to prepare a set of interview questions that could be asked of a human resource person in the workplace. They visited the workplace and conducted …
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Learning through work experience - ABOVE
This task was part of a unit of work relating to work placement. The students experienced explicit teaching of employability skills and reflective writing. They worked with a career adviser to identify an area of vocational interest and organise for a …
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Letter to a friend - AT
Students had learnt how to talk about their own family and construct short, informative texts. In this task, students were asked to write a short letter about their family to an imaginary penfriend. They were to include names, ages and occupations.
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This is my city - AT
Part A: Written script In this task, students were asked to work in pairs and write a script where they would discuss information about their cities. Students were instructed to use hiragana and kanji and use a variety of vocabulary and language structures …
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Reflection on learning about daily life and school routine in Japan - AT
The student had completed a module of work on daily life and school routine in Japan where they learned the vocabulary, grammar, sentence structures and expressions needed to discuss the topic in Japanese. The student also researched and discussed the …
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Entrepreneurs - AT
Students studied examples of businesses associated with entrepreneurs. They identified the characteristics of each entrepreneur, the strengths of the business and created general categories associated with entrepreneurial behaviour. Students then adopted …
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Australian businesses - ABOVE
Students researched the different types and structures of businesses. The teacher, in association with the teacher-librarian, scaffolded the research and guided the selection of source material. Students chose one type of business and generated their …
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Introduction of self and friend - AT
Students had learnt the sentence structures, grammar and vocabulary for self-introductions and how to introduce friends. In this task, students were asked to write a self-introduction and to introduce a friend using the pre-learnt expressions and vocabulary. …
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Je vous présente ma famille - AT
Students learnt the vocabulary and sentence structures to use to describe themselves and their family. They learnt a number of adjectives and to agree the adjective with the noun in number and gender. Students learnt to conjugate the verb aimer and how …
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Ma chambre - AT
Students had learnt vocabulary related to the home and grammatical structures such as prepositions to describe location. In this task, students described their bedroom using prepositions of place to indicate where different furniture was located and features …
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Revision of systems of language - AT
Students had completed learning the grammar of the passé composé, when to use the auxiliaries avoir and être, using the passé composé with reflexive verbs and the partitive article de, the pronoun en and the imperative with reflexive verbs. Students …
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My photo album – AT
Students were asked to pose questions to their mothers regarding their lives at particular ages (baby, toddler, school student). The teacher subsequently transcribed students’ recollections of the answers to these questions. Students then created pictures, …
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My birthday week – ABOVE
Students positioned their birthday on a template provided by the teacher. Students also recorded the date of each day on the template and used text and images to indicate all personal or public events and celebrations occurring within the week.
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The local lagoon – AT
Students undertook a guided excursion to a freshwater wetland in a local national park. After the excursion students completed a structured worksheet in class.
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Communications timeline – ABOVE
Students sequenced teacher-provided images of different forms of communication, from oldest to newest, along a timeline. The teacher then questioned the students about the choices they made. The question, along with a transcript of the student’s answer, …
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Then and now – ABOVE (Year 1)
Students talked about schools in the past – ‘then’ – compared to the present – ‘now’. They drew pictures and wrote a simple text to illustrate and describe schools in the past and present. The teacher supported students in editing, scanning and including …
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Clothing – ABOVE
Students looked at photographs of clothing worn in the first half of the twentieth century. They were asked to find similar clothing which they subsequently wore for a full day at school. Students then responded to teacher questions on their likes and …
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My place in the world – ABOVE
Students listened to and discussed a teacher-reading of a picture book, such as My Place in Space or Me on the Map. Students then collected photographs and maps to show the location of their own homes on a variety of scales. The pictures were positioned …
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Creating a place – ABOVE
Students conducted surveys and collected data about different environments. Students then used the data to inform their drawings of imagined places and wrote reflections on the process and the choices they made. The entire task took place over a one-week …
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Creating a place – AT
Students conducted surveys and collected data about different environments. Students then used the data to inform their drawings of imagined places and wrote reflections on the process and the choices they made. The entire task took place over a one-week …
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