With changing times, modes of learning in Australia are revolutionizing especially with the changing technology. A good example of change is NSW English curriculum that has taken a new course that will be commencing after 2013. K-6 NSW English syllabus was well modified to give a good base and guidance to parents and the school community at large in by subjecting them to a range of books.
With the changing trend in education, it is important for educators to come up with more effective ways of teaching. This is the reason why the K-6 syllabus was designed to guide educators on the stages of ensuring the learner shows achievement in English and proper communication. The major tips covered in this system are effective planning, implementing evaluating and assessing learning experiences by the educator. The resources provided contain:
- Videos to effectively support event study
- Effective teaching and learning cycle guide
- Proper approach to students in helping them in talking and listening, reading and writing modes
- Ways of dealing with learners who have receptive and expressive communication difficulties
- Downloadable assessment procedures for specified area of difficulty
- case studies which demonstrate how the assessment as well as teaching strategies laid out can be used inside the classroom
- Forms that are downloadable for assessing certain areas of contention
With the advanced technology, the NSW English curriculum is adopting the new K-10 English syllabus thanks to Jacaranda school publishers. The new syllabus has concentrates more on digital learning, and for the first time the syllabuses are online interactive. K-10 syllabus outlines the characters, attitudes values and skills students are expected to portray at every level of learning from kindergarten to year 10.
The NSW English curriculum revolution introduces electronic learning and teaching. Jacaranda school Publishers have come up with assessment tools, eBooks and learning games as well as reward winning applications. In this system, teachers have a powerful monitoring application of student’s performance and progress in real time at individual level or as a class. This has proved to be the most effective method of learning, convenient to both the teachers as well as students.
Student’s learning has been made fun and interesting by improvising games and online competitions. The tools used here are efficient enough to give instant response to a students work for them to know their weak points and work on them. Some materials in NSW English syllabus include:
- Online English games have attracted the attention of kids making it not only a learning lesson but also a leisure activity. They feel more in charge of their learning, as there are monster like characters to defeat when using their skills and in return, they improve their knowledge. Games are targeted to cover spelling, vocabulary, grammar, good punctuation among many others.
- EBook, one of the learning material for k-10 NSW English syllabus by Jacaranda publishers, in an electronic textbook version that involves use of video clips, word documents designed for easy configuring and editing, a whole textbook in an electronic format and web links supporting relevant materials
- Study on, an online exam tool that helps a student for exams testing them and responding to the answers given. Teachers are in a position to monitor the student performance as well as identify their weak points. The students on the other hand are exposed to new examination techniques and questions. It is very convenient as it can be accessed anywhere and anytime.
The new syllabus introduces will help in a number of ways to both teachers and students and mainly:
- Time saving as no timetable will be scheduled for learning. Both parties will find convenient time to play their role
- No restriction to location as lessons are downloadable anywhere. The students and the teachers can carry on even when travelling or doing something else that will not need so much concentration.
The new English curriculum introduced helps making the English syllabus fun and easy. Missing lessons and boredom in kids will have reduced. By year 10, every child will have had a strong command in language, both written and spoken. This is undeniably the best development in the current educational system. With this breakthrough, the teachers and students are bound to enjoy all the benefits that come with it.