2016 Teachers New to SACE Stage 2 Physics

9.00 Registration and welcome

9.15 1. General Introduction to SACE Physics requirements – Lois Ey

Subject outline walk through

• Investigation skills
• Content
• Assessment
• Performance Standards

Assessment Operations

• Quality assurance cycle
• Key dates
• Assessment Groups

Assessment and SACE Board Policies

• Supervision and verification of students’ work
• Assessment deadlines and submission dates
• Special Provisions

Getting help

10.45 MORNING TEA

11.00 2. Programming

• What to include
• When to do it
  • How much time at the end for revision?
  • How much formative work before students do summative tasks?
  • What are the peak times of the year for assessment tasks?
  • How much time do you have to prepare/mark/provide feedback?
• Table discussion (10 minutes)

3. Resources

• Textbooks
• Notes
• SASTA Study Guide
• Simulations (eg PHET, Scootle)
• Websites
• Time to explore resources at lunch

4. Challenging concepts

• What misconceptions do students bring from earlier years?
  • How can these be identified and addressed?
• What concepts do students find most challenging in the course?
  • What is the evidence of this?
  • How can these concepts be taught?
• Table discussion
• Suggest concepts to go through in the Questions section at the end of the day.

12.15 LUNCH

1.00 5. SATs

• Test / exam process skills (eg describe, explain, derive, calculate)
  • What is required for each of these types of questions?
  • What do students find the most challenging?
• Extended responses
  • Planning
  • Writing

• Appropriate & inappropriate tasks
  • Marking tests / exams
  • Performance standards; how to use differences between the grade bands

1:45 6. Folio

• Practical Investigations
  • Appropriate tasks
  • Inappropriate tasks
  • Practical / Experimental skills
    • Design
    • Manipulation
    • Recording / displaying data
    • Analysis
    • Evaluation

• Marking Practical Investigations
• Issues Investigation
  • Appropriate & Inappropriate tasks
  • What is an issue?
  • Word count and how to adhere to it
  • Presentation formats

• Performance standards; how to use differences between the grade bands

2:45 7. Moderation

• What happens there
• How to best prepare for moderation

3.00 8. Questions

(Participants are requested to bring a copy of the 2015 SACE Board of SA SACE Stage 2 Physics Exam and a Learning and Assessment Plan (LAP).