Guaranteed & Viable Curriculum
“A guaranteed and viable curriculum is the variable most strongly related to student achievement at the school level.
That is, one of the most powerful things a school can do to help enhance student achievement is to guarantee that specific content is taught in specific courses and grade levels.”
– (Leaders of Learning: How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement, DuFour & Marzano 2011)
“A guaranteed and viable curriculum is defined as a combination of opportunity to learn and time to learn.”
– (What works in schools: Translating research into action 2003).
At Yarrabing Secondary College, our curriculum design is focussed on providing a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
GANAG Learning Framework
GANAG is a lesson schema which includes a set of sequence steps. It allows teachers to plan for student learning using the nine high yield research based instructional strategies.
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
AVID is a highly successful and innovative teaching program which supports students to develop academic and organisational skills.
AVID is underpinned by five key skills: Critical Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organisation and Critical Reading (WICOR).
Organisation is one of the most important parts of the AVID Program. Management of time, energy and learning to set priorities can make the difference between success and failure at school, in further education and in the workplace. Students must learn to plan effectively for academic assignments, organising information and ideas for assessments and projects. At Yarrabing, we teach students to take ownership of their learning. This ownership leads to academic, social and emotional growth and self-advocacy.
At Yarrabing, the use of specific binders, which students use to organise their Cornell notes and resources for every subject, provides support for the organisation of materials, assignments, assessment, handouts, and notes. Cornell notes are designed to support student learning by teaching them to identify new vocabulary, summarise their ideas, take detailed and well-organised notes, and develop questions about their notes to test themselves later.
When students are taught the skills to process information and interact with it, they can become independent learners.
Technology For Teaching & Learning
Yarrabing Secondary College is committed to embedding technology into the classroom to enrich teaching and learning. This is achieved through the implementation of a 1-1 device program and by using the SAMR model to enrich student learning.
Parent Guides for Department of Education supplied software