School-To-Work WorkshopSTW CoordinatorsTransition Advisors

STW in 2010.• We began the process of explicitly linking STW

and Office of Schools priority areas. 47 schools state that STW is part of the schools management plan- 2011 will be making those links stronger and more explicit across the school and its community

• 35 schools have adopted a Career and Transition team approach

• WSR 11 trained Transition Advisers • 26 schools used the Student Pathways Survey

predominantly with Year 10.

Reflections from the 2010 process•Projects / activities did not link project

outcomes to STW plan or the schools management plan

•Insufficient detail

• Action research can be described as a family of research methodologies which pursue action (or change) and research (or understanding) at the same time. In most of its forms it does this by:

▫using a cyclic or spiral process which alternates between action and critical reflection and 

▫  in the later cycles, continuously refining methods, data and interpretation in the light of the understanding developed in the earlier cycles.

• Dick, Bob (1999)  What is action research? Available on line at http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/whatisar.html

What is Action Research?

•Deals with your problems not someone else’s

•Can start now or whenever you are ready and will give immediate results

•Promotes the strengthening of relationships between staff

•Provides schools with alternate ways of viewing and approaching educational questions and subsequently a new way of examining their own practices.

Action Research :

• Identifying the issue• Developing methodology• Developing a plan

Planning

Action Research Diagram

• 2010 STW report data• Targeted students? • Role allocation• How will the project be done?

Planning

STW Context

Table Action Research

•Choose a STW project to plan as a group using the Action Research Principles.

Funding in 2012

•Table discussion

STW and the NSLA• Regional initiative is ‘Planning my Future’• Upcoming professional learning• WSR NSLA Wiki• STW and NSLA are intrinsically linked but not at

the exclusion of other programs.• Alternate and compacted curriculums designed.• Mentoring programs continued.• Introduction of English Studies and Applied Maths• Flexibility of subject selection- ie; offering of 2 VET

Courses• Investigation of pre-vocational courses available.• Expansion of the SBAT possibilities for students. • Establishment of 'transition' classes in Year 11

Regional Initiatives

•‘myFuture’ update•RuMAD?•WOW•IEA

Social Media and STW

Some resources in addition to Scott’s presentation

•http://edudemic.com/2011/07/social-media-education/ 10 best and worst things about social media

•http://edudemic.com/2011/01/every-teachers-must-have-guide-to-facebook/ 10 yr olds guide

•Get ideas.org.au