2024
26 June
At the beginning of June, we started putting "Critical Thinking Spots" onto our pages. These are mostly articles from The Conversation written by academics who have researched the topic thoroughly.
The Critical Thinking Spots have questions to ponder after reading the article. It is hoped teachers and students, after a few minutes read, will take advantage of these spots for some deep thinking and maybe discussion.
For example:
Discuss with a partner:
a. your thoughts on AI and chickens
b. What will we learn about how chickens are 'grown' at the moment?
14 May
Just added a great new activity to the Police Officer called...
The
Story of Fook Shing, colonial Victoria's first Chinese detective - Who was he?
(Source:
SBS)
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding
Cooperative
Learning Activity
Teacher
This activity involves the Expert Jigsaw Strategy - the
whole process can be found
here.
Lessons: 3 - 4 x45 mins
Subjects: English, Media Studies, Australian History (Gold Rush)
This activity is a Rich Task.
24 April
The following 16 characters have been created by
Fuzz, our
illustrator:
- Bed & Breakfast Operator
- Biochemical Engineer
- Carcinologist - Studies Crustaceans
- Cetologist – studies the Whale family
- Ichthyologist – studies Fish
- Casting Director - completed
- Customer Service Manager
- Data Recovery – Digital Forensic
- eLearning Developer
- Engine Reconditioner
- Gastroenterologist
- Home Economist
- Soccer Player
- Special Effects Technician
- Volunteer Organiser
- Voiceover Artist
- completed
As you can see from the list, there is both
traditional jobs and jobs that are emerging. Each job takes around 1 - 2
weeks to complete:
A. the information from the Internet that is condensed into the following
headings:
ANZSCO ID
Alternative names
Specialisations
Knowledge, skills and attributes
Duties and Tasks
Working conditions
Tools and technologies
Education and training/entrance requirements
Employment Opportunities
The newer jobs usually have no ANZSCO ID so need to be
re-checked over and over.
Also, for example, there will be other jobs associated with the broad job -
for the Casting Director, there is also the Casting Associate and Casting
Assistant. These jobs will also be investigated and have the above headings.
Each page will also have a "Did You Know?" section that might interest
students.
Also, if a particular person is relevant to that job, they will be given a
"Cameo" - a short version of their life undertaking this job or a fuller -
dedicated page on this person with the following headings:
Summary of her / his life
Introduction
Education
Employment & Training
Experiences & Opportunities
Links
YouTube Videos
Activities [educational activities]
The purpose of Life on the Job, is to show students
the pathway that person has taken in that job. This section is a bit like
"Gardening Australia's My Garden Pathway"! It also puts as much information
about that person as possible in one place for the students. Eg. Prof.
Kingsley Dixon was thrilled to see this collection of sites on his page. [Prof
Kingsley Dixon was a great help with the Equity Program in Young NSW
that Frances Moore instigated and ran.]
B. The educational activities
Each job has a range of educational activities associated with it. These activities are to engage the students in Critical & Creative Thinking, Numeracy and Literacy skills as well as to challenge them with learning strategies from comprehension to philosophical thinking.
This area of educational activities sets On the Job apart from other information sites.
C. The links
The links page for each job shows a range of
associations, and, YouTube videos of people working in this job or
explaining what this job is like.
22 March
Lesson Strategies -
The Big Book
Picture Books or Big Books can be a wonderful way to
explore topics, a certain aspect, or as I was shown by Prof. Phil Cam years
ago - a wealth of Philosophical Topics.
The page on the Big Book shows the educational concept and then an example
from the latest Job - The Wig Maker. I'm waiting on the author, Jonathan
Hillman, to give me permission to use all the words of his Philosophical
rich book - "Big Wig".
20 March
The University of Adelaide requested activities for
students for the Easter Holidays for their Children's University project.
On the Job sent through the following activity:
Spot the Difference [Student handout]. The activities involved Poetry,
Observation, Philosophy, and, Drawing.
The Teacher's Guide can be found
here.
While some of the material is repeated from
Let's
Analyse - this prior activity was and is based around data, statistics and
graphing.
18 March
I presented at the Canberra Mathematical Association's Annual Conference
held at ADFA on the 16th March. The theme of the Conference was:
Mathematicians: Agents of Change.
Here is my PPT for the event.
As Agents of Change, I covered
Each of these jobs has activities for teachers to give to their students. Not all the activities showed the maths involved and any suggestions would be gladly received.
March 2024
I have decided with the encouragement of friends to start writing a blog. I hope that it will be of some help to teachers and parents of students from Years 5 - 12.
If there is a topic that you wish me to research or add to this website, please let me know.
I get a lot of requests from teachers and parents from the USA - I do point out that this website is Australian-centric.
Frances.Moore@onthejob.education
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