Date/Time:

22/05/2025 - 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Event Categories:

• Building Teacher Excellence
• Curriculum
• Professional Learning

Description:

Build your confidence and skills to collect evidence of achievement and plan assessment tasks for English or Mathematics with Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) experts.

Designed for: Heads of Schools, Curriculum/Learning Leaders, Primary Teachers and Secondary Teachers.

Your commitment: 6.5 contact hours, plus optional 6.5 hours on Day 2 and any required reading.

AITSL Professional Standards for Teachers: Focus areas 2.2, 2.3, 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 6.2 and 6.3.

Delivery mode: 1 x face-to-face workshop (Day 1) plus optional face-to-face workshop (Day 2) – Planning Assessment for English and Mathematics with ACARA.

Presented by: Désirée Gilbert, Senior Educational Consultant, AISSA and ACARA Curriculum Specialists.

Price:
Day 1 only: $150.00 per person (GST inclusive).
Day 1 & 2: $300.00 per person (GST inclusive).

Key Dates:
Day 1: 22 May 2025, 9:00am-3:30pm
Day 2: 23 May 2025, 9:00am-3:30pm (optional workshop)

Location: Venues to be announced!

Registration closes: 15 May 2025 at 5:00pm.

Program Overview – Day 1:
Join ACARA experts for an immersive and hands-on workshop to enhance your skills in collecting evidence of achievement (Years F-10). Develop next steps for implementing the Australian Curriculum v.9 and delve into learning activities that will support you to:

• plan assessment that informs teaching and learning
• collect evidence of the Australian Curriculum v.9 achievement standards, years F-10
• make consistent teacher judgements

The learning on Day 1 will be applicable to the eight Learning Areas of the Australian Curriculum v.9.

The optional Day 2 workshop, Planning Assessment for English and Mathematics with ACARA, provides further learning related to designing assessment tasks for gathering evidence of knowledge, understandings and skills in Mathematics and English.

Program Overview – Day 2:
Master the skills needed to plan formative and summative assessment tasks that align to the Australian Curriculum v.9 English or Mathematics Learning Areas.  

In this workshop you will:  

• develop deeper understanding of collecting evidence of the achievement standards for either the AC v.9 English or Mathematics
• explore the relationship between English and Literacy or Mathematics and Numeracy
• plan formative and summative assessment
• explore how to work with ACARA on the collection of work samples or development of formative assessment.

Enquiries: please contact Keira Brault.

Terms and Conditions: Registration for this event will incur the fee detailed above. This fee will be invoiced after the event and is payable unless written notice of cancellation is received seven or more days prior to the event.  See the AISSA’s Professional Learning Terms and Conditions for the full registration terms and conditions including the cancellation policy.

Registrations: To register, please visit this link.