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• your overhead projector broke just when
you were doing a lesson with Year 7 and some of
their parents on Open Day Education Week?
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• you booked the video room but had not previewed
the video yourself and it was unsuitable for your
Year 7 class.
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• you are teaching WW1 ..... which you don't
know about to . Year 11 and you leave all your notes
at home and it is period 1 ..... 1 minute away.
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• a parent complains about the topic (aboriginality,
nuclear waste, gender, family roles) and materials
that you are using.
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• you are taking an excursion and the police
arrest your Bus Driver after an altercation with
a taxi driver (the Bus Driver parked in a Taxi Rank
to let your kids off in the rain).
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• you are asked to program a unit of work
on Year 8 Australian History Course ..... you do
not have a background in this Mandatory Question
(Heritage) where do you start!
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• you are programming Australian History for
a group of students with learning difficulties,
a colleague complains that the approach and materials
are unsuitable, where do you go from here.
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• you are accused by the Head Teacher of imposing
your personal political views on your students (In
the selection of content, discussion and approach
and teaching) How do you resolve this issue?
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• you arrive at the school. There are 16 classes
of Year 7 and 8 Geography and Year 7 and 8 History
and one class set of up to date texts. All other
materials here produced before the 1980's. How do
you resource your classes.
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• you are a new History (Background Modern
& Australian History) appointment in HSIE, all
history classes have been allocated, you are asked
to teach 2 new geography classes and Year 11 Business
studies and Year 11 Ancient History. What would
you do?
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• you only junior classes up to Year 9, you
seem to be tired all the time ..... you would like
to teach senior Geography (your major at Uni.) However,
there are very few senior classes and they are taught
by the most experienced staff members. How do get
a senior class.
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• you are studying relationship's between
aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australian in the
mandatory section of the history syllabus. You decide
to find this unit with a debate entitled Invasion
or Settlement, everything goes wrong and the kids
commence a riot. How should you prevent these situations
from occurring?
