Choices for Course Selection and Course Design

ERS provides a wide choice of courses.

A. Design your own course

You can request ERS to design your own course, to address your specific needs.
 

What are your choices?

Choices in course design can include any combination of the following:

·         Purpose.  What is it you would like to learn

·         Year level:  Kindergarten / Prep,  Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

·         Learning area / subject e.g. English, Mathematics, Science….

·         Integrated Units, topics, investigations

·         Curriculum / planning / teaching / pedagogy / lesson planning

·         Assessment – recording – reporting

·         Student learning / strategies / activities

For more information about our customised courses, or to customise your course, please don't hesitate to contact us.

B. Choose from prepared courses

   Current courses that could be chosen include:

Planning

• ·        Planning the learning program for a learning area.
• ·        Planning the learning program – integrated units.
• ·        Preparing lesson plans

Teaching

• ·        Teaching  literacy
• ·        Teaching  numeracy
• ·        Constructivism. Negotiating differentiated curriculum.  Prepare I.E.Ps

Individualised learning programs

• ·        Developing differentiated learning programs: IEPs, G&T, Special Education

Simplifying Schedules:   year-term-week-day 

• ·        Scope and Sequence charts, lesson plans, schedules, checklists

Use of ICT

• ·        Use of ICT for planning
• ·        Use of ICT for teaching and student learning.

Assessment

• ·        Assessment choices, tasks, criteria, standards, rubrics, checklists, records.

Curriculum Leadership

• ·        Establishing a whole of school approach the learning program
• ·        Change management – preparing teachers for National Curriculum