VCE teachers - get the VCE resources you need.

Finally! An on-line resource that provides VCE teachers ways to help VCE student’s prepare for their VCE exams and life beyond the VCE.

Let's share the facts about the pressure faced by VCE teachers, your VCE students and their parents.

Fact 1: Your VCE students & school results are closely scrutinized.

Unfortunately your school (like mine) is compared each and every year with other schools in the state-wide VCE "league tables". At a cursory glance these results provide the measuring stick used to determine a school’s (and it's staff's) ability to produce VCE high achievers and high ENTER results in the 90's.

Your VCE student results, and the publication of this information, does affect your schools marketability and the ability to enrol new students into the school. I don't need to tell you the effect this has on the long term economic viability of a school.

Fact 2: Teaching staff are too busy & can't reach all students.

Teachers are "flat to the boards" just trying to stay afloat during the school year. Sadly many students "fall through the cracks" despite our very best intentions and sometimes these students are the ones that need the
most help.

It's just that, as teachers, we have a limited time to deal with the myriad of student problems and following up on each student's challenges and difficulties.

Fact 3: Teachers have to bear the pressure to do well.

We,
as teachers, are under immense pressure, based on the comparisons to previous years, to improve the "standard" and "scores" of our students.

In the first staff meeting for the year do you get the "run down" about
how you and the school performed? I do! Each year we are told how the school performed, compared to previous years and then issued with the challenge to raise the bar.

It’s important to regularly refine and improve our teaching ability and enhance our student's ability to learn for themselves. Do you have the time, energy and resources to keep up with the steep learning curve of IT in education?

Fact 4: You must educate, evolve and embrace new learning technologies to captivate Generation Y students. 

The way we teach has to evolve with the changing times. Generation Y students (those born between the years of 1980-1994) have highly diverse needs than previous generations and as such require a different way of communicating
and relating.

Generation Y are …

1. More likely to be involved in underage drinking and experimental drug use.
2. The most medicated generation in history with alarming rates of anti-depressant and Ritalin use due to increasing level of ADD, ADHD and mental illnesses such as depression.
3. Developing large waist lines as childhood obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. It is anticipated that by 2050 50% of children will be classified as being overweight.
4. Readily accepting of new multi-media including the internet, mobile phones, music players and other interactive learning mediums.
5. Constantly filtering out information out that doesn’t capture their attention or entertain them.

Web 2.0 and Social Media are dominating our student’s lives. In fact students now have the ability to “rate” your teaching ability in a public and easily accessible manner. Why don’t you have a look at it here: Rate my Teacher .com

Long gone are the days of “chalk and talk”. All teachers need to be able to not only build rapport with their students but do so in ways that connect with them. Often in a classroom that equates to using many such varied strategies as the following:

• Mind Mapping
• Blogging
• Podcasting
• MySpace pages
• iPod’s and Mp3’s

• YouTube Video
• Flikr
• VideoCasting,
• Social Bookmarking

• Wikipedia
• Wiki's
• Rss feeds
• Web 2.0
• and more…

If you don't know how to deal with Generation Y - let us help you!

As a VCE teacher I know how pressed for time you are to find and deliver information in a way that is fresh, engaging and memorable. VCE help has constructed a number of resources for VCE schools including powerful multi-media seminars and resources that are dynamic, educational, empowering and entertaining.  This is precisely what Generation Y students are after… 

Our resources are designed to make the VCE years easier by:

1. Increasing the energy and vitality of VCE students to cope with VCE stress.
2. Enhance their learning and studying capacities, to save them time whilst studying.
3. Empower their self-worth to achieve their own unique goals.
4. Develop a range of other essential life skills needed for life beyond their VCE.
5. …and make it easier for VCE teachers to keep up to date with an ever evolving level of learning technology.

Our VCE resources for schools include:

1. A fortnightly electronic newsletter, called ENTER-Life,
   for students, parents and teachers containing links to articles pertinent to teenage life and VCE tips to fast-track their VCE performance.
2. A whole host of articles and learning resources, subject specific content, health resources and life skills.
3. Specialist articles for parents and teachers on how to improve their relationship with VCE students and encourage higher responsibility and action with less fights and stress.
4. A wide variety of free vce resources and subject specific resources for use in school by VCE students, parents and teachers.
5. In school seminar programs where students refine the practical skills in a range of topic areas required to succeed in the VCE and beyond.
6. Ultimate VCE success toolkit where students get access to quality tips, resources, over 450 subject specific website resources for over 30 VCE subjects, computer learning and studying
   programs plus much more. See the Ultimate VCE Toolkit for more details. (Please note school site licenses for the VCE toolkit is available - please contact us for more information.)

VCE school results won't change unless you are prepared to change. Contact us for all enquiries, questions and suggestions. Testimonials from our pilot programs and seminars can be found here.