State Targets
www.education.vic.gov.au/about/educationstate/Pages/targets.aspx#what1
•LEARNING FOR LIFE
•Over the next 5 years:
•• 25% more Year 5 students will reach the highest levels of achievement in reading and maths.
•Over the next 10 years:
•• 25% more Year 9 students will reach the highest levels of achievement in reading and maths.
•• 33% more 15 year olds will reach the highest levels of achievement in science.
•• More students will reach the highest levels of achievement in the arts.
•• More students will reach the highest levels of achievement in critical and creative thinking.
•BREAKING THE LINK
•Students at risk of poor learning outcomes will be supported to reach their potential and stay in education for better life opportunities.
•Over the next 10 years:
–The proportion of students who leave education early (between Years 9 and 12) will fall by 50%.
–Victoria will reduce the impact of disadvantage on achievement.
•HAPPY, HEALTHY AND
RESILIENT KIDS
School will be a positive experience and nurturing environment for our children to develop confidence, social skills and healthy life habits.
•Over the next 10 years:
•The proportion of students who report high resilience will grow by 20%.
•The proportion of students doing physical activity for an hour a day, five times a week, will grow by 20%.
http://www.ict.mic.ul.ie/graddip/web_2_0_tools.html --- interesting website with a list of all the Web 2.0 tools available, and they update it regularly.
The blog Thea started, can no longer be used due to issues with passwords, etc, so I had to get real clever very quickly regarding setting up blogs, etc.
Had a few false starts, BUT I can report that we now actually have something functioning …
For the moment all PD’s will be published on: www.ballaratCRTnetwork.weebly.com
Please let me know if you find it and what it looks like, this website has got a blogging link on it – please leave your comments as a blog on the website…
Any feedback will be appreciated.
This will be the permanent address for CRT network e-mails:
[email protected]
Following our meeting at DEECD, late in 2010 regarding the establishment of a designated web page for CRTs - Casual Relief Teachers Support Initiative, I have been advised that the following sites have been developed and is now live. The links to the site are as follows:
- http://www.education.vic.gov.au/schoolprofessionals/teachers/default.htm (under Careers and Professional Development’s ‘Teacher Professional Learning’)