[Year 12 IPM] ITA ("IPM 2007") summary

[Charmaine Taylor]

I'm trialling the new study design this year and my Unit 1 students are 
loving it. They come into class before the bell and even the kids who in 
year 10 wouldn't do any work are fully engaged and producing quality. 
It's beaut to be able to praise them instead of telling them off for not 
working. All the students in the class (17) are keen to improve the 
quality of their work. If just the first outcome has produced this 
change of attitude in my students roll on the remaining outcomes..
The study design provides teachers with enormous scope to cater for your 
students' interests, your passions, and yet meet industry requirements 
and academic standards in the discipline of IT.  Look for the 
opportunities rather than seeking constraints.

Charmaine Taylor
Sunbury Downs College

Frank Van Den Boom wrote:

>...2 observations to throw into this:
>- today's Age pg 2: IT slump threatens Monash faculty
>- the numbers we get in IP&M or IS are largely driven by their Year 11/10/9... experience of IT, plus the industry forces driving Monash's predicament. I think the study design has great scope to make Unit 1/2 relevant, interesting, challenging, fun...
>Frank
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>What changes?
>We may as well call the subject "Office administration" it makes more sense.
>I would gladly take on the course if it had significant and interesting 
>changes.
>Your encouraging rhetoric is nice Margaret but it doesn't change the 
>fact we have been dudded and our feedback was largely ignored.
>We did have some very good and vigorous debate on the issue and many 
>good idead came out of which I have seen NONE of them put into this course.
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>Lawson, Margaret wrote:
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>>Embrace the changes and make them positive for yourselves.
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>>That is my 2cents worth
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>>Margaret
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