[Year 12 IPM] RE: ICT Coordinator duties and time allowances

[murch at tpg.com.au]

Hear, hear, Roland.  Could not agree more.  Our leadership team in their wisdom reduced ICT x 2 
periods per week per year back to 1 semester at both year 7 and 8 this year.  As you say students 
are quite proficient in MS Powerpoint but still mainly its basics and in MS Word.  However, it has not 
worked as they hoped and year 7 ICT will be back to a full time subject across the two semesters 
next year.  They then incoporate the skills in their other subject areas and have a are able to judge 
the various software types that they can choose from.
Anne Mirtschin
Hawkesdale p12 College
Quoting Roland Gesthuizen <rge at westallsc.vic.edu.au>:

> Thanks for the post Leanne, sad to read some of these changes going
> on 
> around the traps. How do they fit into the broader context of the 
> implementation of VELS into your school? We may need to watch that we
> 
> don't inflict up on students a new ailment of "IT death by Google or
> 
> powerpoint". It has taken some convincing here that IT has been much
> 
> much more ever teaching kids how to use PowerPoint.
> 
> Somebody asked what it would take to replace an ICT trained teacher.
> I 
> have been a wag to respond in kind if there was a 2 hour workshop
> that 
> an ICT teacher could do before teaching a year 10 English class .. 
> afterall, don't we all speak, read and write English? (no disrespect
> 
> intended to English staff)  I have also insisted  that I embrace my
> work 
> as part of a professional learning team but will be offended if I am
> not 
> consulted or it is assumed that I have been.
> 
> I like some aspects of VELS but also understand that most IT trained
> 
> teachers have studied long and hard to qualify for their method area.
> 
> Naturally they may feel quite alone and humiliated if they are
> sidelined 
> and marginalised from any discussions about these changes.
> 
> Regards Roland
> 
> Biggins, Leanne D wrote:
> 
> >Hi Ros,
> >This year at Heathmont College, the program manager / coordinator
> (me) has had 2 periods allowance per 10 day cycle - ie 1 period per
> week.
> >The duties include liasing with the ICT tech staff who service the
> entire college, looking after budgets and orders, and checking that
> the relevant exams are prepared and submitted.
> >Since I have been the only full time IT teacher for the last 2
> years, most of this just related to me, but there have been up to 5
> others taking a class or 3 here and there.  I have done curriculum
> where there were parallel classes to mine, and suggested units in the
> classes that I don't teach, but I am not officially responsible for
> curriculum and neither are any of the other program managers.  Who
> is? I don't know!!! I think that it is assumed that curriculum just
> hapens!
> > 
> >Next year my role will change - to help deal with VELs.  I will be a
> teaching and learning coach with a focus on ICT and still have the
> program manager's responsibilities. I will have 9 periods per cycle. 
> We have lost IT at years 8 and 10, and have had a semester block at
> year 7 in all of my time at this school.  My role next year will
> include going into other classes to help students / staff to cover
> the integrated IT and to help students to progress in their skills
> there.  I guess I will be asked advice as well, since there will not
> be time to go into as many classes as would like to utilise my
> presence.
> > 
> >We'll see how it goes next year.  I see it as a postion full of
> potential and positives, but it may all fall over.  I despair that
> students will only use the skills that they come in with initially,
> and I hope to help them progress.
> > 
> >Leanne Biggins
> >Heathmont College
> >
> >________________________________
> >
> >From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Meadows, Roslyn M
> >Sent: Thu 10/11/2005 1:58 PM
> >To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> Teachers'Mailing List
> >Subject: ICT Coordinator duties and time allowances
> >
> >
> >I am currently pushing to have an ICT Coordinator position
> reinstated in our school (we have had no position and no time
> allowance available for this position this year) 
> > 
> >Just a quick email asking others briefly
> > 
> >
> >*	
> >	What are your responsibilities?
> >
> >*	
> >	What is your time allowance?
> >
> >Any feedback asap would be really appreciated
> > 
> >Cheers
> > 
> >Ros Meadows
> >Bentleigh SC
> >9579 1044
> >meadows.roslyn.m at edumail.vic.gov.au
> > 
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> Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Westall Secondary
> College
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