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Innovation and Excellence
The Victorian Government's 2002-03 Budget allocated $84.3 million to encourage primary and secondary schools to work closely together to deliver innovation and excellence in Victorian education.
This initiative provides an exciting opportunity for all government schools to develop and build upon creative and innovative ways to engage middle years students in their education. It invites teachers to focus on their teaching and learning practices and to share their knowledge across schools and learn from each other. Schools are encouraged to examine their curriculum and assessment programs and to create new and cutting-edge ways in which they deliver education.
The initiative is firmly focused on excellence and on school clusters developing programs of significant innovation that will contribute to systemic change in the middle years.
The objective of this initiative is the improvement of the education outcomes for students in Years 5-9 to enable them to be:
- more literate and numerate
- more engaged in learning
- socially competent with a conscious personal and social values base
- skilled in communication and negotiation
- intellectually curious and able to find and solve problems
- flexible and able to adapt to change, through knowing how to learn and wanting to continue to learn throughout life.
Professional Development/Research
Mount Waverley Cluster Conference 2005
Professional Development - PD Search
Neville Johnson Presentation
Pages 1-11
Neville Johnson Presentation Pages 12-22
Neville Johnson Presentation
Pages 23-31
Middle Years Pedagogy Research & Development (MYPRAD) Project
