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=Growing enrollments in IPT & IST= The tactics I have used include:

1. Marketing the course to Yr 8 and Yr 10 students Here is the marketing material I use:

2. Promoting the courses as [|Funderstanding]

3. Getting the kids onto the computers for most of the lesson - minimum 'teacher talk'.

Lessons with max. five minutes of teacher talk, then onto the computers then a couple of minutes of review at the end. Basically I have adopted a modified Gagne 9 Points approach to teaching where the construcivist student-centred activity is wrapped within a directed framework.

4. Theory as homweork Each week the students are expected to create a set of study cards for one section of the syllabus/textbook.

5. Examine what has been learnt/taught Examinations generally follow standard approach of MC. short answer plus practical (sometimes online) component examing activiity tasks. The kods tend to score reasonably high marks in years 9 - 11. (Maybe I am an easy marker?). Strange thing is that many go on to get theri high band 5 and band 6's in the HSC. I regulalry achieve above state average in these bands.

6. Use system development cycle for most activity tasks Actvitities generally run over four to six week. Students plan, design, build, implement and evaluate something (web site. movie. dB etc)

7. Let kids learn in an environment that suits them (music is OK, one earphone per student so they can still hear the teacher and for OH&S).

8. Provide class time for assessment tasks (the keen kids spend more time at home to get better marks).

9. Collect work as we go, by stage. This means that I have always got a mark for them and no 'N' reports.

10. Differntiate the curriculum by providing extenstion activities for the more able students.