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Getting Ready for Secondary School

Getting Ready for Secondary School. Information for primary s chool parents and school c ommunities. What is Junior Secondary? . Getting Ready for Secondary School, which includes the Junior Secondary Agenda, is all about improving student outcomes. . Image by Lime Photography.

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Getting Ready for Secondary School

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  1. Getting Ready for Secondary School Information for primary school parents and school communities

  2. What is Junior Secondary? Getting Ready for Secondary School, which includes the Junior Secondary Agenda, is all about improving student outcomes. Image by Lime Photography

  3. What is Junior Secondary? • Key strategies include: • Year 7 will becoming the first year of secondary schooling from 2015 • smoother transition between primary and secondary settings • introduction of Junior Secondary to include Years 7–9 • a focus on teaching and learning that meets the needs of early adolescents in Years 7–9. Image by Lime Photography

  4. Why the move to Junior Secondary?

  5. Learning responding to student needs • Postsecondary study P-12

  6. Junior Secondary students and the stages of adolescence Images by Lime Photography Episode 2 - A crash course in the developmental psychology of young people

  7. Junior Secondary students and teenage brain development During adolescence, the brain undergoes significant reorganisation, impacting on how students engage/ disengage from learning environments. Image by Lime Photography

  8. What does this mean for my child? 21st Century learning spaces - creative solutions! http://www.wordle.com/

  9. Junior Secondary – guiding principles Image by Lime Photography

  10. Junior Secondary Principles

  11. Junior Secondary Principles

  12. Why is parent involvement so important? Parent participation can lead to: • improved grades, increased enrolment in higher level programs, higher graduation rates, and a greater likelihood of participation in postsecondary education • more regular school attendance, better social skills, improved behaviour, and a greater sense of personal interest in learning. Dr Lance Emerson, Josh Fear, Dr Stacey Fox, Emma Sanders, Parental engagement in learning and schooling: Lessons from research,Family-School & Community Partnerships Bureau (2012)

  13. Parent involvement in the Junior Secondary years Dr George Otero, QLD Principals’ Conference, 2013

  14. Why Junior Secondary – what does the data tell us? Attendance data P–12 Yr 7 in Primary

  15. Why Junior Secondary – what does the data tell us? Sample NAPLAN data for reading

  16. Parent involvement in the Junior Secondary years • Moving from primary school to high school presents many challenges for students and families. • This progression through the schooling years can be made easier if parents continue to actively participate in their children’s education. • Parents have an important role as motivators, and can continue to be engaged in learning in a supportive capacity.

  17. Parent involvement in the Junior Secondary years • The nature of effective parental engagement changes as children move through the schooling years. • Parental engagement during the high school years needs to take account of adolescents’ desire for independence and improved abilities.

  18. So what might parent involvement look like in Junior Secondary?

  19. Supporting transition into Junior Secondary

  20. For more information about Junior Secondary http://flyingstart.qld.gov.au/Pages/home.aspx#2

  21. Questions and comments?

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