❓ Dr. Woollard questions the Minister for Education and Training about the proposed shift from the existing TEE system to an outcomes-based education system, raising concerns about syllabus vagueness, examination emphasis, teacher accountability, subject status, student choices, and the Curriculum Council's composition.
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(1) I refer to the comments attributed to the Minister for Education and Training during the election that ‘our TEE system is as good as any in Australia’ and ask why is the Government planning to change it from a system which has a clearly defined syllabus, a high stakes examination process and high teacher accountability to the new proposed courses of study system often referred to as ‘Outcomes based’, which is characterized by a vague syllabus dependent on the background and skills of the teacher, decreasing emphasis on high stakes examinations and low teacher accountability?
(2) Is it true that under the new proposed courses of study system (outcomes based education) subjects like woodwork, metalwork, cooking, sewing and automotive engineering will hold exactly the same status as physics, chemistry, literature and calculus in calculating a TER?
(3) In this academic year how many choices of study do students have under the current TEE, wholly school assessed and Vocational Education and Training?
(4) Under the new proposed courses of study system how many choices will students have?
(5) If the new system offers a substantial reduction in choices, why is this so?
(6) Why is the Curriculum Council advertising the new system as an ‘increase in choice’ for students?
(7) I refer to the Curriculum Council and ask -
(a) how many members are there on the Council;
(b) of these members, how many have never held a school teaching position; and
(c) of these members, how many are currently practising teachers in schools?
(8) I refer to the new proposed course of study system (outcomes based education) and ask -
(a) has this type of system, as proposed by the WA Curriculum Council, been introduced in a successful manner elsewhere; and
(b) if yes, where and how?
(9) How does the new proposed courses of study system (outcomes based education) include what most teachers and parents would agree as essential components of a good education system, that being a clearly defined syllabus, a high stakes examination process and high teacher accountability?
(10) Why is the education system moving from a system understood by parents which provides a grade, mark and average score to a new system lacking these factors and seen by many as imposed mediocrity?
(2) Is it true that under the new proposed courses of study system (outcomes based education) subjects like woodwork, metalwork, cooking, sewing and automotive engineering will hold exactly the same status as physics, chemistry, literature and calculus in calculating a TER?
(3) In this academic year how many choices of study do students have under the current TEE, wholly school assessed and Vocational Education and Training?
(4) Under the new proposed courses of study system how many choices will students have?
(5) If the new system offers a substantial reduction in choices, why is this so?
(6) Why is the Curriculum Council advertising the new system as an ‘increase in choice’ for students?
(7) I refer to the Curriculum Council and ask -
(a) how many members are there on the Council;
(b) of these members, how many have never held a school teaching position; and
(c) of these members, how many are currently practising teachers in schools?
(8) I refer to the new proposed course of study system (outcomes based education) and ask -
(a) has this type of system, as proposed by the WA Curriculum Council, been introduced in a successful manner elsewhere; and
(b) if yes, where and how?
(9) How does the new proposed courses of study system (outcomes based education) include what most teachers and parents would agree as essential components of a good education system, that being a clearly defined syllabus, a high stakes examination process and high teacher accountability?
(10) Why is the education system moving from a system understood by parents which provides a grade, mark and average score to a new system lacking these factors and seen by many as imposed mediocrity?
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16 August 2005
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Minister representing the Minister for Education and Training
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(b) of these members, how many have never held a school teaching position; and (c) of these members, how many are currently practising teachers in schools?
(c) of these members, how many are currently practising teachers in schools?
(b) if yes, where and how?
(c) of these members, how many are currently practising teachers in schools?
(b) if yes, where and how?
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