What Next?
Ana and Ross see the cellphone unit as a working document rather than a set programme, something they can change as they're teaching it. They intend to refine and repeat it in 2007. They have decided to limit the range of achievement standards to AS 90045 (AS 1.1 v2), AS 90050 (AS 1.6 v3) and AS 90051 (AS 1.7 v 2).
Ana and Ross will continue with their approach to combining Technology and Graphics achievements standards, and intend to trial some Level 2 Technology Achievement Standards in the 2007 Graphics class.
Only two Graphics students applied to sit scholarship in 2005 and both passed, the only subject in the school where more than one passed scholarship. The result of this was a rise in standing for the subject within the school. This also lifted interest in the subject by students and parents, which has been great for both Graphics and Technology.
Graphics has really picked up in the school and, for the first time, the school will need a separate Level 3 Graphics course in 2007 rather than one combined with Level 2, as in the past. In that year, Graphics with Technology had a 50% increase in students taking the subject at Level 1.
The rise in numbers taking Technology means that the school will be looking at offering separate Year 12 and 13 classes in 2007. The successful trial introducing the technology component into Year 11 Graphics means that this will be added to Year 12 next year and Year 13 the year after.
Ross plans to continue in the Graphics area, and when that is running successfully hopes that with his move back to Technology he will bring those students with him in their second option choice. He says he will keep looking for challenges so that he doesn't stagnate, on the grounds that if you lose the interest you also lose the passion for the job.
