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Strive for HSC Success in CAFS Teaching Package

Module 1: Team Culture

The lessons:

• Build strong relationships with your students so they are ready to contribute positively to the class and tackle new learning.
• Make your classroom (whether it be physical or online) a place where students want to be. 
• Formulate good routines with your students so they know clear expectations in the classroom.

Module 2: Pathway to Success

The lessons:

• Building on specific strategies with your students so they further develop their understanding and skills in the course. 

Module 3: Syllabus is King

The lessons:

• Implement practical ways you can make your students familiar with the syllabus so they can apply it regularly
• Track key connections across the course so students see the value in making meaningful connections. 

• Develop a series of strategies to use learning intentions and success criteria with our students. 

Module 4: Unlock the Secrets to the Glossary of Keywords 

The lessons:

• Observe the significance of establishing key strategies to learn the difference between each of the Glossary of Key Words. 
• Explicitly teach these words and eliminate the misconception about the application of these words to ensure success in our course. 
• Explicitly model how language is used to show application of the Glossary of Key Words. 

Module 5: Essential Literacy Skills

The lessons:

• Develop a consistent approach across the course, faculty and/or school so your students can apply their skills easily.
• Implement a replicable structure so your students can easily apply their knowledge and understanding in a streamlined manner.
• Teach the skill of answering in a logical and cohesive manner using paragraphs so your students can make it clear for the marker where their paragraphs are.
• Develop a structured approach to answer questions so students maximise the time available to answer all questions thoroughly. 

Module 6: Application is Key

 The lessons:

• Map key concepts throughout the course so students see how the CAFS content interrelates. 
• Develop a bank of examples, case studies and scenarios that can be used directly in formative and summative assessment and examination questions.
• Apply knowledge and understanding of course content by using very specific examples, case studies and scenarios across a wide variety of scenarios. 

Module 7: Embedding Wellbeing

 The lessons:

• Develop a crystal clear understanding about how we can use the rubric for our students to strive for success in the Option. 
• Explore the marking guidelines explicitly to discover what and how students should be striving to answer both formative and summative assessment and examination questions. 
• Teach wellbeing meaningfully so students can gain knowledge and understanding. 
• Share a structured approach with the students so they answer in a logical and cohesive manner in Part C. 

Module 8: Valuable Feedback

 The lessons:

• Provide rich and meaningful feedback to our students so they move themselves forward and strive for success. 
• Provide clear and effective annotations for our students so they can uncover what they have done well and what they need to do to improve. 
• Develop really practical tools to move our students forward as they strive for success.