Senior Secondary Certificate Reform
VCE VM and VPC: Planning for 2024
During Term 4 last year, the Senior Secondary Certificate Reform Curriculum team ran face-to-face workshops in locations all around the state. The series, titled ‘VCE VM and VPC: Planning for 2024’ was designed with applied learning principles in mind, both as a tool for teachers to use as part of their own reflection and learning as well as being applicable to their classroom practice.
The workshops used Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle as a framework for teachers to move through in considering the action of implementing or preparing to implement the new studies in 2023. Participants were invited to reflect on their implementation experiences, conceptualise to understand the findings generated in those reflections, and then were taken through a planning template to apply those findings to prepare for teaching in 2024.
Many teachers commented in the feedback that they really appreciated the opportunity to meet face-to-face with other educators, as well as the chance to chat informally with the VCAA representatives throughout the day.
Not everyone who would like to is able to attend face-to-face sessions, so the VCAA also works to ensure that other types of professional learning are available to all teachers.
These communities of teachers meet online and/or face-to-face throughout the year to further support VCE VM and VPC educators and provide a strong network with which to collaborate and learn.
A self-paced short course based on the 2023 workshops will soon be accessible on our online learning platform, where other short courses are housed.
This module will help teachers work through using the Experiential Learning Cycle for their own growth as applied learning teachers and how they might use the cycle in the classroom.
We can see from the statistics that our current suite of online learning modules have been viewed over 17,000 times by 3,350 unique users, which suggests that once teachers find these resources, they take the opportunity to return in their own time to take advantage of the flexibility of this modality of learning.
All VCAA Professional Learning opportunities are housed on our webpage
VCE VM and VPC Professional Learning.
Communities of Practice
Applied learning Communities of Practice are running around the state to support teachers to implement the VCE VM and VPC. The groups form a robust network that focus on the collaborative development of high-quality curriculum and pedagogical practice and are led by expert applied learning practitioners in each area.
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