COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND INTEGRATED CURRICULUM€¦ · Term Intermediate PDS Senior PDS Senior...

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 Leadership Market Day

Big Day Out Teach a Skill to the Year 7’s

Big Day Out Teach a Skill Interview a Tradie Instructional Presentations

2 School Improvement Project (year-long) Disability (DSR + Scope)

Senior Citizen Project Health & Wellbeing Week

Senior Citizen Project Health & Wellbeing Week

3 Balloon Football (Scope)

Aberfeldie PS Mentoring Safe Driving Domestic Violence/Violence against women Homelessness Project

Aberfeldie PS Mentoring Homelessness Project

4 Amazing Race (Moonee Valley Police + Primary Schools)

Homelessness Project Safe Driving

Homelessness Project Safe Driving 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


Yearlong: School Improvement Project (continued)

●  Become friends with the Wood Tech teacher

●  Formal letter-writing and meeting with principal

●  Mock-ups, sketches, shopping


Yearlong: School Improvement Project (continued)


Term 1: Market Day

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

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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


Term 3: Balloon Football League

Cost: Inclusive

Unit 2 Outcomes 1-5

●  AFL for severe disabilities

●  Funded by Scope

●  Volunteer at practice each week


Term 3: Balloon Football League


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….


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.


Yearlong: MURAL

On the other side of the uniform shop, the students painted our school’s values


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


(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


(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


(INTEGRATED) 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

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Mentoring Project - Continued

FOR THE FINAL SESSION

THE ABERFELDIE STUDENTS

CAME TO BUCKLEY PARK

COLLEGE WHERE OUR VCAL

STUDENTS ORGANISED A

SCHOOL TOUR, GAMES &

A SAUSAGE SIZZLE

IT WAS REWARDING FOR OUR STUDENTS AND THE PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN LOVED THEIR BIG BUDDIES.


(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


(INTEGRATED) Term 3/4: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PROJECT

●  IN ADDITION TO THIS STUDENTS ALSO ORGANISED A FUNDRAISER TO RAISE MONEY TO DONATE TO JESSE FROM REKIAH’S LAW

●  THIS PROJECT IS GOING TO BE EXTENDED THIS YEAR AS WE ARE GOING TO LINK IT TO HOMELESSNESS - BECAUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF HOMELESSNESS IN VICTORIA

●  VCAL STUDENTS ARE GOING TO ORGANISE A WINTER SLEEP OUT AT SCHOOL, WITH PROCEEDS GOING TO URBAN SEED

STEP OUT WITH CASUAL SHOES AND HELP RAISE AWARENESS AND PUT A STOP TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. WHEN: FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER

WHAT TO DO: WEAR ANY SHOES YOU LIKE AND BRING A GOLD COIN DONATION TO HELP STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

BY RAISING FUNDS FOR REKIAH’S LAW.

vcafé - Our VCAL-run coffee shop

vcafé - Our VCAL-run coffee shop

●  In the past: funded by grant from council

●  Poorly run, disorganised, no ownership

●  Now: student/school-funded

●  Accredited barista course via Coffee School

●  Open every Tuesday at recess and lunch

●  Runs as a competition between students - whover makes the most money gets a Nandos feast at the end of the semester.

●  Student groups choose 1 specialty item to sell (donuts, icy poles, etc.)

IT’S YOUR TURN!!

●  IN YOUR TABLE GROUPS, CHOOSE AN ISSUE AND CONNECT IT WITH A STUDENT INTEREST TO CREATE A COMPLEX PROJECT THAT YOU COULD RUN AT YOUR SCHOOL.

●  YOU HAVE 10 MINUTES AND THEN WE WILL SHARE...

SOCIAL ISSUE STUDENT INTEREST

SMOKING MUSIC

CHILDHOOD OBESITY SPORT

DRINK DRIVING FOOD

GAMBLING SOCIAL MEDIA

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