| MARCH 6 2012 |
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Compass Directions has a new format for 2012, with a few features we hope you find useful:
- A Contents menu in the top left for quick reference - just click on the item you want to jump to
- A 'teaser' format for longer stories that allows you to 'Read more' if you're interested in the story, or save it for later if you don't have time.
- More space for pictures
Hyperlinks to email addresses and websites remain in the new format.
Please feel free to offer feedback on the new Compass Directions - Victoria Loy would like to know what you love or loathe about the changes. |
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| UPCOMING ACTIVITIES |
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Staff Meeting at Sir Joseph Banks HS
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Thursday 8 March Compass staff to attend.
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Parent Campus Visit
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Sunday 18 March The first Parents Campus Visit of the year. We’d love to welcome both returning and new parents to campus this year.
The first Parents Campus Visit of the year is on Sunday 18 March. We’d love to welcome both returning and new parents to campus this year. We have provided each school with hard copy invitations that parents can fill out and return to the front office. Please note that RSVPs are due by Thursday 8 March as space is limited – contact Events Manager Simone Ross or Compass administration as soon as you receive your RSVPs.
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Staff meeting at Bass HS
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Monday 19 March Compass staff to attend.
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Sir Joseph Banks HS
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Tuesday 20 March Year 7 campus visit.
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Staff meeting at Yagoona PS
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Tuesday 20 March Compass staff to attend.
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Year 3 Introduction to University
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Watch Compass Directions for further details.
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| REMINDERS AND NOTICES |
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Parents Campus Visit RSVPs
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Thank you to those coordinators who have already received and returned their RSVPs.
Please note that RSVPs are due by Thursday 8 March as space is limited – contact Events Manager Simone Ross or Compass administration as soon as you receive your RSVPs.
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Follow-up meetings for FP&E / Animation teachers
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Teachers who attended the PD sessions for these programs should have received an email from Sylvia last week about scheduling a meeting.
For discussion during the meeting:
1. The class profile (students who we will be working with)
2. The program outcomes in regard to the Key Learning Areas and the
classroom integration
3. Confirm the program delivery time at your school
4. Logistic and arrangement (materials, equipments, software, room
booking, teacher supervision)
5. Any other matters you'd like to discuss Sylvia also asked you to please nominate two time slots on the proposed day that would suit for the meeting. Please email Sylvia with your preferred time by 9 March. Thank you. |
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| DATES FOR THE CALENDAR - STUDENT RECRUITMENT UNIT |
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| PROFESSIONAL LEARNING: FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES |
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Call for expressions of interest
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The Faculty of Engineering & Information Technologies is looking at offering a four-day professional development course at the end of Term 1 for high schools teaching the new Engineering Studies Stage 6 syllabus or teachers who wish to increase their skills in engineering studies. If you would like to be involved in future professional learning in this area, please contact Victoria Loy.
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| UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS |
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Faculty-based Programs
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Several faculties at the University have received funding to carry out schools outreach projects. Some of the schools they're teaming up with this year are Compass partner schools.
The projects include:
- Nature's Classroom, a citizen science program for primary schools that gives students the opportunity to conduct hands-on investigations that feed directly to University research on ant ecology in urban landscapes.
- iScience, an open-ended inquiry project where high school students work on campus and in schools to design, carry out, and report on their own researchable question.
- HSIE project with high schools. The various dimensions of this project include school visits by undergraduate students and faculty for exam preparation, university visits for school students, pre-service teacher placement in school, and participation by school teachers in a university research project.
- Music Learning Through Community Service In a new service learning Unit of Study, Sydney Conservatorium of Music undergraduate students will plan a program for enhancing music in a school and work with students and staff at the school to prepare for a performance at the Conservatorium.
If you'd like to know more about any of these programs, or to find out how to be involved in the future. please contact Compass Administration.
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| PROFESSIONAL LEARNING CALENDAR 2012 |
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Dr Ben Levin, ‘Improving our schools: What we know and what we need to do’
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Monday 5 March
The Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, the Australian College of Educators and the Australian Education Union jointly hosting an evening with Dr Ben Levin from the University of Toronto.
- For those interested in policy-practice connections and large-scale change.
To register, please email Victoria.
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Game Sense
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Friday 30 March
Game Sense
For PDHPE teachers
- NSWIT endorsed professional development for maintenance of
accreditation at Professional Competence.
- Practical classes in the sports of hockey, athletics, football, softball,
touch football and lacrosse by international and national practitioners.
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Conversations about literary texts – module 1
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Oct 17, 24, 31 & Nov 7, 14, 21
Conversations about literary texts – module 1 Blended mode – 12 hours face-to-face at Homebush Boys High School + 8 hours reading/online activities
NSWIT Course Code C08360.
- Teaching grammar in primary school and middle years.
- The teaching of literary texts as the context in which grammar is taught to support meaning.
- Details and dates TBA
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Reading and writing for the middle years – module 1
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Reading and writing for the middle years – module 1
10 hours face-to-face at hub school + 10 hours reading/online activities
NSWIT Course Code TBA.
This module will enable teachers to:
- Articulate the reading and writing skills and understandings required by students to access content and achieve syllabus outcomes in their subject areas
- Expand and enhance the teaching of the reading and writing required for learning in their subject areas, and
- Use a range of strategies to support and develop students' reading and writing skills.
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Dr Michael Ungar, ‘Resilience in the Middle Years’
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1 – 2 November
Dr Michael Ungar, ‘Resilience in the Middle Years’
Michael Ungar is a University Research Professor and Professor at the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. As the Director of the Resilience Research Centre, he currently leads a number of studies of resilience involving researchers from more than a dozen countries on six continents.
He is also the author of eight books including:
- Strengths-Based Counseling with At-Risk Youth
- We Generation: Raising Socially Responsible Kids
- Playing at Being Bad: The Hidden Resilience of Troubled Teens, and
- Too Safe for Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive.
See future Compass Directions for more information.
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