AADES is the peak professional organisation in Australasia representing school level distance education

For the past several years, Mount Isa School of the Air has been engaging in a community process of creating assessment literate learners in order to enable their teachers to prioritise the teaching of and learning of the Australian Curriculum. Drawing largely from evidence-based works by Fisher and Frey and Hattie, using the Gradual Release of Responsibility as a framework for teaching and learning, the school community have been working collegially towards a deep understanding of the assessment demands of the Curriculum into the classroom suite of materials.

Katherine School of the Air will be hosting an upcoming webinar. Join Sarah Dohl and Nick Lovering for the story of how KSA integrates rubrics into their whole school approach to student feedback. In this session, they will share: - how rubrics are used for student learning - what students are saying about rubrics - how using rubrics has impacted on interactions between student, home tutor and teacher

Katherine School of the Air has again engaged with the national Write a Book in a Day Competiton which has students collaboratively write stories for children in hospitals across the country. Despite some technical hurdles this year's involvement and contribution was a success.