Into+the+Middle

Who are we?  = **Into The Middle** ~    Pathways for Learning and Teaching in the Middle Years =

**Into the Middle**  is a partnership project involving teachers from schools and corporate divisions across DEET.
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**Project Mission – Our Fundamental Purpose** To develop a digital/online suite of curriculum and assessment materials for teachers of students in the Middle Years of schooling; targeting the needs of teachers working in remote school contexts, but accessible to all schools. ||

** Project Vision – Our Compelling Future **
High quality materials that make explicit those methods, strategies and practices that make a difference to student learning. Enabling teachers to develop and use:  ·  Shared language and models for planning instruction at whole school and classroom levels;  ·  Systematic ways for interacting about instruction;  ·  Systematic ways for interacting about the quality of student work; and  ·  Systematic way to monitor the effectiveness of teaching and learning programs.

 ·  //Collaboration //// - // facilitating the depth, breadth and relevance of materials  ·  //Portability //// - // ensuring access and usability at the point of need ||  || ** Goals – Our Targets and Timelines ** By the end of Term 3 2008, the project team will have produced ‘blueprints’ for the development of curriculum and assessment materials in the Middle Years of Schooling. These blueprints are currently targeting two aspects of materials development: 1. Overviews for a three year cycle across all areas of learning.  2. Teaching Guides to scaffold learning design and make explicit what makes a difference to student learning and outcomes.
 * ==//** Values – Our Collective Commitments **//==
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: #ff3300; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">Where do we want or need to be? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: #000033; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">Into the Middle ~ Partnerhips to align curriculum, assessment and pedagogy<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">leading and supporting learning by distance <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">promoting and developing teaching and learning programs that make a difference to student achievement in remote schools <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">providing access to flexible professional learning environments for teachers in remote schools <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">This partnership will incorporate the leadership of Andrew Street and will work closely with the three distance learning schools: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Alice Springs School of the Air (P – 9) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Katherine School of the Air (P – 9) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">NT Open Education Centre (10 – 12) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #ff3300; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; msoBidiFontWeight: bold"> Aligning Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy~ Targeting Teachers of Middle Years Students in Remote Schools
 * <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">In Semester two, the Middle Years Curriculum and Assessment Materials Team will join forces with Technology and Information Planning Services (TIPS) and the Distance Learning Service (DLS). **
 * <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">This partnership will focus on optimising systems that enable conditions for success through: **
 * What are our roles?**

Team Synthesis - Conversation Map - What did we learning about evidence based professional learning
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