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Draft National Curriculum offers chance to champion access

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Educators, parents, students and the general public are reminded that comments and feedback for the draft National Curriculum from Kindergarten to Year 10 will be closing on 23 May 2010. The feedback mechanisms allow for extensive feedback across all syllabuses and it is recommended that individuals register and work through the process over a period of time. Media Access Australia encourages all to consider the proposed curriculum in regard to statements on access and equity.

The Public Information Forum in Sydney was held last Thursday, 25 March, and comprised a diverse group of educators representing various concerns with the Draft National Curriculum. The Australian Curriculum Assessment Reporting Authority (ACARA) Chair Barry McGraw and General Manager Robert Randall said that ACARA would be taking feedback very seriously in refining the curriculum, and encouraged people to do so through the online feedback forms. This is an opportune moment to push towards accessibility for students with sensory impairment. 

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The benefits of inclusive education

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Two American academics, Leslie Soodak and Elisabeth Erwin, argue that for inclusive education to work properly it has to be more than placing disabled students in a mainstream classroom. Advocacy planning, commitment and support are essential conditions for inclusion to prosper. Their article can be downloaded from the UCP website.

MAA is undertaking a Classroom Access Project with the Catholic Education Office and La Salle College in Bankstown, Sydney, looking at a ‘model classroom’ that combines different technologies to assist hearing impaired students in the inclusive setting.

 

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Technology promises a better deal for deaf students

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Hearing impaired students at LaSalle Catholic College, Bankstown, experienced the benefits of Australia’s first Model Classroom designed to maximise their learning in a mainstream setting by using a mix of technologies including captions, launched at the school yesterday.

The model, unique in Australia, aims to set a  benchmark in best practice for meeting the needs of hearing impaired students, combining captions, an Interactive White Board (IWB), a Soundfield amplification system and the student’s own FM devices, supported by Media Access Australia’s database of educational captioned resources, the Accessible Education Database.

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VEA and Classroom Video caption new range of DVDs for 2010

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Video Education Australia (VEA) and Classroom Video have captioned a number of new DVDs as part of their commitment to accessible education resources. The 2010 Catalogue features new titles across many subjects, including Human Society and its Environment (HSIE), Careers, Design and Technology, English and Media Studies, History, Physical Education, Science, Maths and the Arts.

Specialist titles for primary education focus on communication skills and healthy eating with titles such as Getting along – Positive Communication and Smart Food, Healthy Body. Environmental titles are useful across a range of subjects and it is expected that they will receive greater emphasis in coming years in light of the draft National Curriculum’s core focus on understanding sustainable ways of living.

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