Communication domain

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Communication domain
communication conventions

• make meaning of

reflect
every domain
Responding
respond to
Listening
evaluate
Literacies
language
Viewing
Presenting
communicate successfully
deconstruct
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Why interdisciplinary? Rationale

• Communication identifies a range of knowledge,
  skills and understandings which cross
  disciplinary boundaries and that are essential to
  support learning in all subjects

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Structure

• The Communication domain is organised from Level
  1 to Level 6
• Each level includes a Learning focus statement
  and from level 4 a set of standards organised by
  dimension
• There are two dimensions in Communication
• Listening, viewing and responding
• Presenting

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Communication dimensions

• Listening, viewing and responding
• This dimension relates to how students gain
  access to knowledge, ideas, skills and
  understandings and how they respond
• Explicit teaching
• Communication conventions strategies
• Understanding subject-specific language
• Interpret information
• Clarify meaning- ask questions

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Communication dimensions

• Presenting
• This dimension is about how students present
  their knowledge, ideas, skills and understandings
  to others

• Explicit teaching
• Understanding conventions of presentations
• Reflect on presentations
• Provide feedback
• Evaluate to inform future presentations

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Communication dimensions
Terminology

• Focuses on developing
• familiarity with forms, language and conventions
  used in different contexts across the curriculum.
  
• understand context, purpose and audience
• select and use appropriate structure and
  organisation to convey meaning
• reflect on the style and content of the
  presentations they make

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Issues for teaching and assessment in
Communication

• Subject specific language needs to be explicitly
  taught
• Conventions (eg writing a science report, writing
  a Bibliography, drawing a map with BOLTSS) need
  to be clearly explained
• Skills (eg presenting) need to be demonstrated

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Assessing more than one domain

• Units of work focusing on more than one domain
• Identify who will be responsible for the teaching
  and assessment for each domain
• One teacher might teach and assess all aspects of
  a students learning
• Two or more teachers might teach and assess
  different aspects of a students learning

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VELS Communication

• The Standards
• http//vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/interdiscip
  linary/communication/index.html
• Assessment maps
• http//vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/assessment/maps/maps_
  domain/communication/index.html
• Domain support
• http//vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/support/domainsupport
  /communication/index.html

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Communication Domain Manager

• Contact details
• Robyn Douglass
• VELS Unit, VCAA
• Ph 96514564
• Email douglass.robyn.f_at_edumail.vic.gov.au