Curriculum 

Craigslea State School curriculum is aligned to the Australian Curriculum. Our teaching teams collaborate to develop Year Level plans and Term Plans that ensure continuity and alignment across classrooms and from P to 6. Our Year Level Teaching Teams engage in Fortnightly Intentional Collaboration (FIC) each fortnight to: review the curriculum to be taught, plan pre assessments, analyse class data, design teaching and learning experiences and assessments, and moderate to ensure alignment of teacher judgement. 

There are eight Learning Areas in the Australian Curriculum:

• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• Humanities and Social Science (HASS)
• Technologies (Design and Digital Technology)
• The Arts (incorporating Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Drama and Media Arts)
• Health and Physical Education 
• Japanese (Years 4 -6)

How we teach at Craigslea State School 

We use a range and balance of teaching approaches to ensure a range of skills are developed in our students from prep to year 6.  Our aim is to ensure our high expectations are upheld academically but also instilling the skills needed in an ever changing world. 

Explicit Instruction is a feature of our teaching pedagogy. Explicit teaching is an instructional strategy used by teachers to meet the needs of their students and engage them in umambiguouse, clearly articulated teaching.

The aspects of Explicit Instruction include:

• establishing and maintaing clear learning intentions and success criteria 
• deconstructing and sequencing teaching focus on the steps that lead to new knowledge, deeper understandings and/or more sophisticated skill
• varying instruction in response to immediate and reflective feedback
• providing scaffolding learning experiences for students to practise, synthesise and consolidate learning 
• developing the capability of students to self-regulate and learn independently

The Gradual Release Model is also a feature of our teaching and learning sequence and it moves students through stages of engagement in their learning from;

I Do - Teacher centred instruction and modelling 

We Do - Collaborative engagement in the learning; practice of skill together

You Do - Student demonstration of their learning

Inquiry Learning is incorportated into a range of learning areas which encourages students to take more ownership of their learning and developing skills of questioning, researching, analysing, communicating, evaluating and reflecting.  This promotes problem solvers and curious life-long learners who think creatively. In 2021, our teachers are currently participating in a book study of 'The Power of Inquiry' by Kath Murdoch.  This will enable us to gain a deeper understanding of inquiry and to develop these skills with the students through real and relatable learning experiences.