Senate inquiry into NAPLAN June 2013

Here is a draft AATE/ETAQ submission Senate Inquiry June 2013. Member comments are invited here.

NAPLAN  Here is a pdf entitled “Say NO to NAPLAN” .  The document includes the following papers:

1. Inappropriate Uses of NAPLAN results (Margaret Wu & David Hornsby)
2. Misleading everyone with statistics (David Hornsby & Margaret Wu)
3. Teaching to the test (Lorraine Wilson & David Hornsby)
4. The NAPLAN view of reading, teachers and learner–?readers (Lorraine Wilson)
5. Exploring NAPLAN spelling data (Jane Buchanan & Brendan Bartlett)
6. Your children and NAPLAN (Meryl Hyde & Jacinta Cashen)
7. The risks of NAPLAN for the Arts in education (Robyn Ewing)
8. Wake Up Australia (Richard Gill)
9. The age of contempt and absurdity (Phil Cullen AM)
10. Making learning visible (Gloria Latham, Di Nevile & Cheryl Semple)

Use of centrally-devised unit plans in EQ schools   Here are some materials related to this issue:

• ETAQ’s letter to the Director-General, Department of Education and Training, dated 11 March 2011: letter to DG re central planning Mar 11
• Director-General’s reply to the letter above dated 15 April 2011: DG’s reply 15 Apr 11
• a set of discussion points developed in response to the Director-General’s reply: Discussion points re EQ central planning May 11
• some relevant motions passed by the Ferny Grove Branch of the Queensland Teachers’ Union on 16 May 2011: centralized unit planning motions May 11
• ETAQ’s follow-up letter to the Director-General, Department of Education and Training, dated 10 August 2011: letter to DG re central planning Aug 11 ver

Another useful resource to generate discussion is a critique of the Scribbly Gum plans by Ray McGuire which can be downloaded here ETAQ critique of Scribbly Gum Ray McGuire. This includes the following elements:

• Part A: Curriculum development issues raised by Scribbly Gum.
• Part B: Unravelling the WHY of Scribbly gum.
• Appendix 1: Reference – Abridged representations of Scribbly Gum’s 8-10 units.
• Appendix 2: Reference – Years 6-10 Australian Curriculum Content statements.

Draft K-10 Australian Curriculum: English    The feedback provided by ETAQ to ACARA can be downloaded here australian-curriculum-english-etaq-feedback