HSIE
Advice for teachers looking to support their Stage 6 students in their HSIE subjects.
Key advice for teachers supporting students working at home
Year 11 and year 12 students should remain abreast of current issues as they pertain to Aboriginal histories and cultures.
Teachers should allocate time for students to begin or continue to work on their local community/comparative case study, using virtual collaborative technology if suitable.
For Year 12 students, teachers should continue to support them working on their Major Project, reminding students to keep their log up to date with detail of the work they are completing. Students can continue to work on any assessment tasks they have been assigned.
Use the syllabus as a guide to direct learning in the chosen options outlined in your course guide/subject outline. When required source reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure student learning and encourage them to take notes in their preferred style.
Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz and maintain your knowledge. Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered. Students should continue to revise content already covered. Multiple choice questions can also be accessed through NESA.
Past HSC papers sometimes do not have images printed for copyright reasons but these images can be found using the google images search engine by their title to respond to the questions. These images can then be uploaded to your digital platform of choice.
Similarly, short answer and extended responses can be uploaded to a digital platform for peer or teacher feedback.
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of topics/content that is no longer part of the course, if you are completing past exam questions. See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment
Key advice for teachers supporting students working at home
- Teachers should support Year 11 students to use this time to work on their Historical Investigation task.
- Similarly, Year 12 students should continue to work on any research-based assessment tasks or recommended readings assigned.
- Teachers should use the syllabus as a guide to direct student learning in the chosen options outlined in your course guide/subject outline.
- When designing learning for your students, use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure student learning and encourage students to take notes in their preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz students and maintain their knowledge. Access NESA syllabuses and past papers to practise questions for topics that you have already completed.
- Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of topics/content that is no longer part of the course, if you are completing past exam questions. See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for teachers supporting students working at home
- All students should continue to revise content already covered.
- Year 11 and Year 12 students should remain abreast of current issues as they pertain to influences on the business environment and particularly as they may be applied as business case studies.
- Students should continue to work on any assessment tasks they have been assigned.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to direct your learning in the chosen options outlined in your course guide/subject outline.
- When designing learning for your students use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure their learning and encourage them to take notes in their preferred style.
- Apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz students and maintain their knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered. Multiple choice questions can also be accessed at NESA.
- Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content. Refer to NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for teachers supporting students working at home
- Teachers should support students to continue to revising content already covered.
- Year 11 and year 12 students should remain abreast of current issues as they pertain to influences on the business environment and particularly as they may be applied as business case studies.
- Students should continue to work on any assessment tasks they have been assigned.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to direct student learning in the chosen options outlined in your course guide/subject outline.
- When designing learning for your students, teachers should use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure student learning and encourage them to take notes in their preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz students and maintain their knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered.
- Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content. Refer to NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for teachers supporting students working at home
- Teachers should encourage students to continue practising all required geographical skills. These can be set as tasks on your preferred digital platform, practised and marked from past papers available from NESA.
- Year 11 students may use the time to develop their SGP task, specifically focusing on identifying their research topics and conducting research and collecting secondary data.
- Similarly, Year 12 should continue working on any assessment tasks they have been assigned by teachers.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to direct the learning in the chosen options outlined in your course guide/subject outline.
- When designing learning, use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Utilise apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz students and maintain their knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered. Multiple choice questions can also be accessed.
- Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content. See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for teachers supporting students working at home
- Teacher should continue to monitor students' progress as they continue to work on your major project, utilising digital libraries and databases. Teachers can guide students to sign up for the State Library of NSW to gain access to JSTOR and other humanities databases to continue your research.
- Teachers should utilise the media around any issues to do with history that you encounter to encourage students to engage with articles and social media relating to the key questions in Constructing History, creating summaries and mini case studies to further develop your understanding. Ensure students can link the contemporary examples with ancient and/or modern historiography.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to direct student learning in the chosen options outlined in your course guide/subject outline.
- When designing learning use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure student lesson and encourage students to take notes in their preferred style.
- Access past
papers to gauge the style and range of questions that students may be
asked and use them as a tool to create summaries and brainstorms around
possible responses.
- Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of
topics/content that is no longer part of the course, if you are
completing past exam questions. See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for teachers supporting students working at home
- Teachers should encourage students to revise content already covered.
- Year 11 and Year 12 students should remain abreast of contemporary issues as they pertain to legal issues in Australia.
- Students should continue to work on any assessment tasks they have been assigned. Use the syllabus as a guide to direct student learning in the chosen options outlined in your course guide/subject outline.
- When designing learning teachers should use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure student learning and encourage students to take notes in their preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz students and maintain their knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered. Multiple choice questions can also be accessed.
- Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content. See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for teachers supporting students working at home
- Teachers should encourage Year 11 students to use this time away to work on their Historical Investigation task.
- Similarly, Year 12 students should continue to work on any research-based assessment tasks or recommended readings assigned.
- When designing online learning, teachers should use the syllabus as a guide to direct student learning in the chosen options outlined in your course guide/subject outline. Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to support student learning.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz students and maintain their knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered. Multiple choice questions can also be accessed at https://quiz.nesa.nsw.edu.au/home
- Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content. See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for teachers supporting students working at home
- Teachers need to ensure Year 12 students are continuing to work on their Personal Interest Project, bearing in mind its due date of Monday 3 August.
- Ensure that you keep up to date with possible changes to assessment dates through the NESA website.
- Year 11 should use their time to revise content already covered. Use the syllabus as a guide to direct student learning in the chosen options outlined in your course guide/subject outline.
- When planning student lessons, use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure student learning and encourage students to take notes in their preferred style.
- Apps such as Quizlet can be used to create practice questions of varying types to quiz students.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered. Multiple choice questions can also be accessed.
- Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content. See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for teachers supporting students working at home
- Teachers should guide Year 11 students to use the time to develop their SGP task, specifically focusing on identifying their research topics and conducting research and collecting secondary data.
- Similarly, Year 12 should continue working on any assessment tasks they have been assigned.
- Teachers should use the syllabus as a guide to direct student learning in the chosen options outlined in your course guide/subject outline.
- When designing learning for your students, use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure student learning and encourage students to take notes in their preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz yourself and maintain your knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered. Link to past papers. Multiple choice questions can also be accessed.
- Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content. See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.