COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND INTEGRATED CURRICULUM DANIELLE SANTANGELO AND LISA VARGAS BUCKLEY PARK COLLEGE, ESSENDON
What this workshop is all about: ● Introduce to you a curriculum developed for Intermediate and Senior Personal Development Skills, along with Senior Literacy ● Our program has flourished over 1 year. We want to share it with you. ● We aren’t a perfect program yet...but we are working toward it!
Learning Focus
By the end of this workshop, you should: ● Be starting to think about meaningful ways you can connect your class or VCAL program with community organisations ● Have some ideas as to how to integrate certain units and projects with different strands of VCAL ● Be familiar with the Intermediate/Senior PDS outcomes
OUR VISION ● Promote civic engagement among students by fostering sustainable and meaningful community connections ● Re engaging students with their school - making meaningful for them ● Integrate subjects where possible (goal: full integration) ● Collaborate
WARM UP ACTIVITY - CARDS On your table there are a selection of cards. Pick two cards that symbolize or help you describe the VCAL subject you teach.
OUTCOMES
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE Term Intermediate PDS Senior PDS Senior Literacy 1 VCAL Promo Video Big Day Out Big Day Out Leadership Teach a Skill to the Year Teach a Skill Market Day 7’s Interview a Tradie Instructional Presentations 2 School Improvement Senior Citizen Project Senior Citizen Project Project (year-long) Health & Wellbeing Week Health & Wellbeing Week Disability (DSR + Scope) 3 Balloon Football Aberfeldie PS Mentoring Aberfeldie PS Mentoring (Scope) Safe Driving Homelessness Project Domestic Violence/ Violence against women Homelessness Project 4 Amazing Race Homelessness Project Homelessness Project (Moonee Valley Police Safe Driving Safe Driving + Primary Schools) Get a Job
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS Yearlong: School Improvement Project Cost: $0 - $1000 (Unit 1 Learning Outcomes 1-5) ● School re-engagement ● Student choice ● Final projects: benches, classroom shelf, downball courts, kiosk for school cafe business ● Terms 1&2: Planning ● Terms 3&4: Building
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS Yearlong: School Improvement Project (continued) ● Become friends with the Wood Tech teacher ● Formal letter-writing and meeting with principal ● Mock-ups, sketches, shopping
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS Yearlong: School Improvement Project (continued)
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS Term 1: Market Day The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory to open the image, or the image may have been corrupted. Restart your computer, and then open the file again. If the red x still appears, you may have to delete the image and then insert it again. Cost: Materials (<$50 per group) (Unit 1 Learning Outcomes 1-5) ● Partnered with VCE Business Market Day (but you could do stand-alone event) ● Stalls, decoration, music, advertising ● Charity ● Integrated project: PDS & WRS
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS Term 2: Intro to Disability (S.I.P. runs concurrently Cost: DSR $300; Scope $1140 Unit 2 Outcome 1 ● Scope - See the Person (school visits + Scope Highpoint ● Disability Sport & Rec - Wheelchair Basketball ● Paralympics, workplace advocacy
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS Term 3: Balloon Football League Cost: Inclusive Unit 2 Outcomes 1-5 ● AFL for severe disabilities ● Funded by Scope ● Volunteer at practice each week
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS Term 3: Balloon Football League
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS Term 3: Balloon Football League Plan and run the BFL Grand Final
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS Term 4: The Amazing Race Unit 2 Outcomes 2-5 ● Partnership with Moonee Valley Police ● Transition program for local primary schools ● Familiarity with public transport ● Design a ‘race’ around town with passports
TIME OUT On your table there is a pathway and sticky notes. ● Use the yellow sticky note to write down what your most positive experience of teaching VCAL has been... ● Use the blue sticky note to write down what you are excited about... ● Use the pink sticky note to write down what you are concerned about...
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR Yearlong: MURAL ● Uniform shop was drab and ugly ● WRS/art teacher led senior students through the process of designing a mural ● Students were divided into groups and given responsibility for one wall ● The following images are the result of their hard work….
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR Yearlong: MURAL The VCAL students wanted to paint a rainbow to symbolize our school’s acceptance and celebration of people of all genders and sexual identities.
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR Yearlong: MURAL On the other side of the uniform shop, the students painted our school’s values
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR Yearlong: MURAL Students eventually ‘signed off' by writing their names and their graduation year on the uniform shop, so future students can put a name to their contribution
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED) Term 1: VCAL BIG DAY OUT PDS LEARNING OUTCOMES: ALL LITERACY: ORACY FOR KNOWLEDGE WE DO THIS IN THE FIRST COUPLE OF WEEKS OF TERM 1 IN PREPARATION FOR ORGANISING FUTURE EVENTS, THE SENIOR VCAL CLASS PLAN THE DAY FOR THE WHOLE OF VCAL IT IS ABOUT CREATING CONNECTIONS AMONG THE COHORT, AS WELL AS CELEBRATING THE DIFFERENT PATHWAY THEY HAVE CHOSEN
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS
SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED) Term 1: TEACHING A SKILL TO THE YEAR 7S PDS LEARNING OUTCOMES: ALL LITERACY: ORACY FOR KNOWLEDGE, WRITING FOR KNOWLEDGE STUDENTS FORM SMALL GROUPS AND DECIDE ON A SKILL TO TEACH TO THE YEAR 7 COHORT THEY ARE IN CHARGE OF THE SESSION AND HAVE TO RUN IT TWICE IN ONE AFTERNOON THEY HAVE TO PLAN THE WORKSHOP , ORGANISE RESOURCES NEEDED TO RUN IT AS WELL AS CONDUCT AN EVALUATION AFTERWARDS THEY THEN HAVE TO COMPLETE A PRESENTATION ON THEIR WORKSHOP TO PRESENT TO THE CLASS IN THE FORM OF A POWERPOINT INCLUDING PHOTOS, SURVEYS AND THEIR OWN REFLECTIONS
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED) Term 2: HEALTH AND WELLBEING DAY LEARNING OUTCOMES: ALL Literacy: Oracy and Writing for Practical Purposes, Writing for Knowlwdge Students (in groups) choose a health issue they are passionate about to focus on They choose an organisation who deals with that issue and they make contact with them They then run an awareness and fundraising campaign at school
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED) Term 2: SENIOR CITIZEN PROJECT LITERACY OUTCOMES MET: Oracy and Writing for Knowledge, Oracy for Self- Expression ● Partnership with Pascoe Vale Gardens Retirement Village ● Students partnered with a “Grandbuddy” ● Interview them and write biography ● Bingo, board games ● This year’s extension: student-planned activity days (lawn bowls, exercise
SENIOR CITZEN PROJECT CONTINUED
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory to open the (INTEGRATED) image, or the image may have been corrupted. Restart your computer, and then open the file again. If the red x still appears, you may have to delete the image and then insert it again. Term 3: ABERFELDIE MENTORING PROJECT LEARNING OUTCOMES: ALL STUDENTS PREPARED SESSIONS FOR THE GRADE 5 AND 6’S AT ABERFELDIE PRIMARY SCHOOL THESE SESSIONS WERE FOCUSED ON BULLYING, TEAMWORK, BEING INCLUSIVE/MAKING FRIENDS AND CONCERNS ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL
Mentoring Project - Continued FOR THE FINAL SESSION IT WAS REWARDING FOR OUR STUDENTS AND THE PRIMARY THE ABERFELDIE STUDENTS SCHOOL CHILDREN LOVED THEIR BIG BUDDIES. CAME TO BUCKLEY PARK COLLEGE WHERE OUR VCAL STUDENTS ORGANISED A SCHOOL TOUR, GAMES & A SAUSAGE SIZZLE
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED) Term 3/4: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/ VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PROJECT WE DECIDED TO CHOOSE AN ISSUE THAT WAS A CONCERN WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY STUDENTS STUDIED A RANGE OF VIDEOS AND STATISTICS RELATED TO THIS ISSUE AND WERE ASKED TO MAKE SOME OBSERVATIONS FROM THESE THEY ORGANISED FOR A SPEAKER TO COME TO THE SCHOOL AND ADDRESS THE YEAR 10 COHORT, AS A WAY OF RAISING AWARENESS JESSE, FROM REKIAH’S LAW CAME AND SPOKE AND IT WAS EXTREMELY
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