Psychology Planning Day – Tuesday 14th March, 2023

Charlotte Walters and Marissa Price

Agenda Item Led by Supported Items Actioned on Day

by
Structure of Charlotte Marissa Discussion re structure (actioned)
Senior Discussion re assessment (actioned)
Psychology Discussion re assessable content (actioned)
program Discussion re 2022 Y11 decisions/programming
(actioned)
Discussion re 2023 Y12 decisions/programming
(actioned)
FIA1 Marking Charlotte Marissa Assessment item viewed (actioned)
Walkthrough Marking guide viewed and discussed (actioned)
FIA2 Charlotte Marissa Assessment discussed (actioned)
Expectations and Processes discussed – incl. backward mapping
Processes and explicit teaching of skills required for
assessment (actioned)
Marking criteria briefly discussed (more in-
depth conversations to be had in future)
(actioned)

Will sit down and thoroughly go through marking

prior to T2
FIA3 Charlotte Marissa Assessment discussed (actioned)
Expectations and Processes discussed – incl. backward mapping
Processes and explicit teaching of skills required for
assessment (actioned)
Marking criteria briefly discussed (more in-
depth conversations to be had in future)
(actioned)

Will sit down and thoroughly go through marking

prior to T3
Reading Guide Charlotte Marissa Purpose of reading guide discussed
Processes and College calendar accessed to mark out missed
Expectations lessons for T2 for WLC and PRM classes
Draft reading guide for WLC by WLC
Draft reading guide for PRM by PRM

Key notes for Term 2 RG:

- Charlotte to do WLC reading guide first to
outline general progression of
content/skills
- PRM to do PRM reading guide based on
WLC
- Missed lessons (class specific dependent
on College calendar)
- None-negotiables include:
1. Intro to topic/general assessment/sleep
diary expectations – first lesson back
 2. Double to unpack and annotate
mandatory experiment
3. Content prior to draft: arousal, selective
vs divided attention, role of brain
structures and hormones, measuring
consciousness, sleep-wake cycle,
restoration/evolutionary theories/sleep-
wake cycle changes, sleep deprivation
4. Skills prior to draft: Scaffolding + ethics +
mandatory prac + task sheet
release/breakdown + processing and
presenting data + annotation of exemplar
5. Skills after draft: APA 7 Formatting and
Consults
6. Move onto Unit 2 after drafts

Discussed and decided to cut Intelligence (Topic

2, Unit 2) for time

WLC Reading Guide has been uploaded

Refreshing of Charlotte Marissa Year 11 Term 2 unit plan updated

Unit Plans
Refreshing of Marissa Charlotte Year 11 Term 2 content (PPTs) to be updated
Term 2 Content and amended to suit weekly structure