The DREADED BOARD OF STUDIES

The whole point of today’s activity was to check out and report on in 1000 words, the most helpful site used by teachers to make their lessons interesting and effective for students so that not only do they learn something but also so teachers know they are teaching the students the right information. This website is feared and loathed by students. The “Dreaded BOARD OF STUDIES”

The programming of the information on the website can be at times helpful with how it categorizes everything and labels it all so the information is relevant to the heading, neat and in order according to subject, level or just parents seeking general information about the course outlines available for their son/s or daughter/s. The home page design is bright and colourful but also very informative and reflects the categorized style mentioned above it has pictures and hyperlinks which take you to the desired section. However the actual style and layout of this site can be a headache and a half and I am not joking the PDF files on Adobe Acrobat can go on for pages and pages ( 6 at least, sometimes more)
And can be more stressful than actually sitting the HSC, I know because I sat it 2 years ago!!! Every second word is also a hyperlink which may have some relevant information but it just regurgitates those few points in a different form each time!!! As mentioned above every second word is a hyperlink, this can be come very irritating and can make any soft, calm person very irate very quickly. Overall all the website contains everything a teacher, parent, student needs to be helpful or successful in the HSC period and so even with all the negatives and headaches that can possibly arise from this website it is worth looking up to guide the students of today into tomorrow.

Just looking through everything the site has to offer in my fields which are THEATRE MAJOR/ ENGLISH MINOR, there is a lot of information to process. It gives you the outcomes for each topic that the teacher must teach to the student so it can be learned/completed and processed and understood by the student in order for them to gain necessary life skills. It contains an Assessment Resource Centre for years 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12 in those subdivided groups and with this function teachers gain the information they need to use assessment to enhance learning in years 7 right through to 12. It builds on the principles of assessment for learning in the Board syllabuses and the advice in subsequent support materials on implementing these principles. It shows how teachers can use assessment to enhance student learning and to make a judgment of student achievement at key points in the learning process. It also provides teachers with previous student’s work as an example of what sort of assessment standard would fit this description for student outcomes. For years 9-12 it also provides information on the School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate respectively.

There, as I have probably mentioned many times before, is so much information on this website that I am barely able to make heads or tails of it. There is so much information swimming in my head that if I was a mere scientific calculator I probably would have burned out circuits and my Ink based screen would have cracked and have steam coming out of it. There cannot possibly be one person in the whole of the world that could sit on their computer for one whole day and manage to process and understand every bit of information on this site. It is a site that I personally believe needs to be constantly referred to throughout either your teaching or schooling years. > I’m getting a Migraine as we speak< it is however, all valuable information that can be used over and over again. It’s objectives as a website, as I understand it, is to inform teacher’s of the action they must take to help students to learn valuable and much needed skills later on in life. It is not so much the content that matters but the skill they gain from learning that content that counts.