Thursday, 30 Jan 2020
Make your 2020 school year preparations easy with these time-saving tips.
Each new school year brings the kind of administrative tasks that most of us would rather ignore. To help ease the load, we’ve put together a few PAT housekeeping tips that will make your life much easier when assessment time rolls around.
Refresh your database
Ensuring your student records are up-to-date now will save you a lot of time later on. Log into your school’s online assessment account and check out our video guides to:
- Adding students
- Editing students
- Creating and editing staff accounts.
The year level rollover wizard is a great way to automatically advance students one year. You'll find the rollover wizard on the Students page of your school's account and this short video explains how to use it.
Lesson planning
Reviewing last year’s results is crucial to planning for the coming year. Knowing where your students are in their learning will help you identify areas you’ll need to concentrate on, and plan lessons that engage every student in your class. The first step is to generate your student reports, if you haven’t already, and these webinars explore the types of reports you can produce with PAT.
Good news! Linking student results with the specific teaching resources that best meet their needs has never been easier. Question previews accessed via the PAT group reports now link directly to the relevant annotated question in the PAT Teaching Resources Centre – simply click the link at the end of the report, as illustrated below.
In this article on PAT Insights, we share some of our favourite sources of extra resources to help you keep lessons fresh, engaging and fun.
Brush up on your data skills
Could your confidence in dealing with data use a boost? Would you like to take your use of PAT to the next level? All teachers need to engage in ongoing professional development so why not consider brushing up on your data skills with one of our 100 per cent online courses? We also have a range of free webinars, and a series of hands-on workshops run by PAT experts in cities around Australia.
Coming soon:
- Free webinars:
- ‘Setting up your account for 2020’, 4pm AEDT on Wednesday 12 February
- ‘Where are your students in their learning?’, 4pm AEDT on Wednesday 26 February
- Getting Started with PAT (an online only ACER-accredited short course, 3 Feb-10 Apr)
- A face-to-face workshop that will take you through the whole PAT process, from start to finish. Find out when we’re in your state in 2020.