Six key result areas - building on what Banksia Secondary College has achieved.
A wide range of current initiatives within the school are consistent with the specific aims set forth under each of the following key result areas.
As a future projection of the current trends and achievements within the school, other educational institutions and the wider community, the list of key result areas includes:
Aims:
To develop enhanced outcomes for students in the middle years of schooling through collaboration between the College and Primary feeder schools;
Develop multiple and complementary sites of learning; and
Disperse the education function across schools, colleges, universities, homes and workplaces.
2. Quality teaching and learning:
curriculum integration, action research, student centred learning, and student teams.
Aims:
To continue to provide students with more opportunities to take responsibility for their own learning, show initiative, work outside the classroom, plan activities and projects for themselves, identify and obtain resources, test hypotheses, creatively solve problems, work as members of small, self managing work teams on genuine group tasks,
self assess their educational performance using the key competencies, and develop a capacity for life-long learning and relearning.
Aims:
Aims:
To use the advances in electronic communications to give students a
global perspective, and to develop their sense of place and time;
To enable teachers and students to become co-learners, to develop lessons that do not have predetermined outcomes, to create 'virtual classrooms' to link teams of students, and to encourage a Iateral approach to the development and application of new technology.
5. Competency-based student contracts:
Aim:
1. involve each student in one of the following seven arenas of student empowerment:
school governance;
2. equip each student with the skills needed for choosing, getting, and keeping a job - from identifying their interests and aptitudes to developing the attitudes and habits critical to keeping a job.
6. School community well-being:
Aim:
Health education and promotion.
To educate young people about nurturing their physical and mental health, and promote social behaviours and decision making which reduce the harm derived from risk taking behaviours, particularly in relation to alcohol and substance abuse and sexual behaviours through collaboration between all appropriate bodies in delivering programs which address these outcomes.
Co-ordinated delivery of family, and crisis support services.
To link together schools, families, local community services and community based support services and other relevant groups in providing an integrated 'case managed' approach in assisting students and their families, particularly by facilitating access to community and government based support services, which are sensitive to individual needs and make efficient use of the services. This should include an integrated approach by relevant agencies in a coordinated program to address school non-attendance and truancy.
Building, a safer community in which recognition of rights and responsibility becomes increasingly embedded in the culture.
To promote community safety and crime prevention programs and to enable young people to contribute actively, meaningfully and competently to these programs. To provide young people with a grounding in civics in recognition of their responsibilities and rights as citizens through collaboration between schools and other appropriate agencies.
Promoting student involvement in regular health promoting physical activity.
To establish links between schools and sporting and other relevant bodies to promote greater participation by young people in healthy physical activity together with the pursuit of excellence in the context of the systematic community wide delivery of sports programs and services in a positive social environment.1. Networks and alliances in education:
multiple learning sites, and education, training, and employment linkages.To better coordinate and integrate school (Including post-primary and primary), business and industry, and TAFE College and university resources to benefit students;
To develop a more integrated curriculum across the traditional subject specific boundaries, to continue to link intellectual, skill, personal and social aims, and to introduce curriculum based, 'real life' action research and problem solving; and
3. Cultural diversity and global learning:
the global economy, culture, learning communities and the curriculumTo utilise the cultural diversity of the school and global communities, to develop further the curriculum, to enhance educational opportunities, and to build a positive, community wide perception of the school and its community.
4. Information technologies and telecommunications:
computer assisted and multi-media teaching and learningTo use the advances in computer technology to develop cooperative, cross discipline, and multimedia learning programs for students, to continue the shift from verbal thinking to the integration of visual and verbal thinking and text and images; and
student learning, empowerment, citizenship, and successful transitionTo negotiate competency based learning contracts with each student, to build into each contract a continuous progress assessment package - covering agreed educational and extra-curricular outcomes, and over time to:
curriculum development;
community service and citizenship;
youth enterprise;
peer-age and cross age tutoring;
peer mediation; or
outward bound/high adventure activities; and
creating a seamless system of health, safety, family, sporting and recreational services.To build and strengthen partnerships between local
government, health agencies, police, community organisations, including sporting clubs, schools and other key bodies, to produce quality outcomes in the following areas:
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