In this episode, we will be discussing five tips to achieve above the state average in Community & Family Studies. If you're a CAFS teacher looking to improve your students' performance and create a strong sense of community in your classroom, then this episode is for you!

I'm sharing five tips that will help you build those critical band four, five, and six results, including:

• Teaching skills explicitly is essential to help students master the content.
• Focusing on the application of content will aid in student understanding and retention.
• Engaging teaching and learning activities can bring your classroom to life, making students excited to learn.
• Building rapport with your students can foster a positive learning environment, which is essential for their success.
• Creating a CAFS community within your class and across other CAFS classes can lead to excellent results.

If you enjoyed these tips and are looking to learn more, I'd love to invite you to join The CAFS Collective, a membership program designed to support CAFS teachers in achieving their teaching goals. Additionally, I will be hosting in-person events called HSC Success Sessions, featuring successful CAFS teachers sharing their strategies for achieving high band results consistently. (Find out more at thelearnnet.com/events) 

So tune in and learn how to create a supportive and engaging learning environment that will help your students achieve above the state average in Community & Family Studies.

In this episode of the CAFS Podcast, I'm joined by Nikki Bignell, a CAFS teacher and member of the CAFS collective. Nikki shares her experience teaching CAFS for the past three years, with a focus on compressed curriculum schools. She also discusses her background in teaching PDHPE for 13 years and how it has helped her transition to senior teaching.

Throughout the episode, Nikki provides valuable insights on how to effectively teach CAFS in a compressed curriculum, including strategies for time management and content delivery. She also shares her approach to preparing her students for the upcoming HSC exams, her favorite topics to teach in CAFS, and the importance of building strong relationships with students.

This episode is a must-listen for any CAFS teacher looking to improve their teaching practices, especially those teaching in a compressed curriculum school. Nikki's expertise and passion for teaching CAFS shines through in this engaging and informative conversation.

In this episode, I'm going to share the five most common mistakes that students make in Community and Family Studies, and what they can do to avoid them.

Having been involved in CAFS for many years, I've worked with lots of CAFS teachers and students, and I've seen these mistakes time and time again. To be honest, I think some teachers may not even be aware of these mistakes, which is why I want to discuss them in this episode.

So, if you're a CAFS teacher or student, I encourage you to grab a pen and paper or use a note-taking app to take notes while listening to this episode. I'm going to share a lot of tips and tricks that will help you improve your understanding of CAFS and avoid these common mistakes.

I've been involved in CAFS for 16 years, and I've seen these mistakes during HSC marking. That's why I want to share them with you so that you can help your students move past them and excel in CAFS.

If you're interested in joining the upcoming CAFS marking experience with me and Marty, head over to thelearnnet.com/markingcafs for more information.

So, tune in and learn how to help your students avoid the mistakes that are holding them back in CAFS.

Looking back and realising that HSC marking gave me more than what I bargained for was very worthwhile... Often we do things and go through the motions until we finally get to stop and take the time digest!!!  This week's Podcast episode unpacks My Top 5 Lessons from Marking HSC Community & Family Studies for 16 years (including 3 years as a HSC marker, one year as a Judge, 10 years as a Senior Marker and 5 years as the NSW Supervisor of Marking in HSC Community and Family Studies). Grab that pen and paper, Google Keep or Notes in your phone... Curious to see what this actually looks like? Join us for Marking Experience in CAFS, an opportunity to experience what it is really like to mark Community & Family Studies so your students are set up for success in your class (year after year!).  Head to thelearnnet.com/markingcafs to sign up, but hurry spots are limited!!! Hit the "Subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.  Love this Podcast? Write a review and give it a 5 star rating. I would love to hear from you.  To support your time, energy & wellbeing grab my Community and Family Studies resources at: https://thelearnnet.com/resources To have ongoing support alongside likeminded Community and Family Studies teachers across NSW, plus the support and mentorship of Kelly Bell join my Community and Family Studies Membership The CAFS Collective!  https://thelearnnet.com/collective For all the show notes and links head to: https://thelearnnet.com/50 Connect with Kelly on Instgram:  https://thelearnnet.com/kellybell.coach

Always cheering & supporting you!  - Kelly

I LOVE data!!! Yep I said it. I love HSC data!!! It enables us to see what the data tells us what our students have done well, improvements to be made, the gaps in their understanding and skills plus specific detail to help us improve OUR practice. Join me as I interview data analysis guru Graham Wright from Edu Consulting. We chat about: * HSC Data * HSC Item Analysis * ATAR and Scaling * How Community and Family Studies teachers can use data * Common myths around Community and Family Studies * How teachers can use data to inform their practice and make decisions Graham was our expert in The CAFS Collective, my Community and Family Studies membership to support teachers no matter where they are in their journey of teaching. To join our membership, head to thelearnnet.com/collective To connect and work with Graham Website: https://www.datainschools.com.au/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nswhscdiscussion

All this talk about HSC, data and results reminds me that rego is now open for Marking Experience in Community and Family Studies! If you are new to seniors, are teaching CAFS for the first time and/or have never done HSC marking in CAFS I would love for you to join is. To check it out and register, head to:

https://thelearnnet.com/markingcafs   Hit the "Subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.  Love this Podcast? Write a review and give it a 5 star rating. I would love to hear from you.  To support your time, energy & wellbeing grab my Community and Family Studies resources at: https://thelearnnet.com/resources To have ongoing support alongside likeminded Community and Family Studies teachers across NSW, plus the support and mentorship of Kelly Bell join my Community and Family Studies Membership The CAFS Collective!  https://thelearnnet.com/collective For all the show notes and links head to: https://thelearnnet.com/50 Connect with Kelly on Instgram:  https://thelearnnet.com/kellybell.coach Always cheering & supporting you!  - Kelly

Are you stuck for ideas to work with your Year 11 Community & Family Studies students? Want to make every lesson count with your Year 11 CAFS Crew? In today's Podcast episode, we chat about what you can do to make meaningful connections from the Year 11 Community & Family Studies course to Year 12 Community & Family Studies content.  I walk you through the Year Community & Family Studies course to show you where you can link to Year 12 content strategically to maximise students' results and success in our course.  Let's face it, we only have seven terms with our CAFS Crew and we want to make EVERY.SINGLE.LESSON count!  Get your pen and paper or laptop handy because we dive right into the Year 11 Community & Family Studies course and I give you countless ideas to implement into your classroom right away.  If you are looking for lesson by lesson ideas, teaching and learning activities, content mapping, learning intentions & success criteria, exam preparation questions and assessment ideas to set your Year 11 Community & Family Studies students for success my. course is jam packed. 

My Year 11 Community & Family Studies Course supports Community and Family Studies teachers with strategic and purposeful ways to teach the Year 11 course so students are set up for success. Join over 160 teachers across NSW who have are working with their Year 11 CAFS Crew in a more engaging, more purposeful & meaningful way! To check it out and register, head to:

https://thelearnnet.com/11cafs   Hit the "Subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.  Love this Podcast? Write a review and give it a 5 star rating. I would love to hear from you.  To support your time, energy & wellbeing grab my Community and Family Studies resources at: https://thelearnnet.com/resources To have ongoing support alongside likeminded Community and Family Studies teachers across NSW, plus the support and mentorship of Kelly Bell join my Community and Family Studies Membership The CAFS Collective!  https://thelearnnet.com/collective For all the show notes and links head to: https://thelearnnet.com/49 Connect with Kelly on Instgram:  https://thelearnnet.com/kellybell.coach Always cheering & supporting you!  - Kelly

Are you sitting there staring at your computer and the syllabus trying to work WHAT & HOW to assess your Year 11 Community & Family Studies class? Look no further, in today's Podcast episode we unpack what you can do to create purposeful and meaningful assessment tasks for your Year 11 Community & Family Studies class (year after year without tearing your hair out!) We unpack what you need to assess knowledge, understanding and skills to set your Year 11 Community & Family Studies class for success (so they are ready and prepped for the HSC).  I share what you can do to assess your students with big picture concepts in the course to test knowledge, through application of understanding via case studies, situations & scenarios as well as assessing their skills in the course.   If you are looking for some ideas, you will find countless assessment ideas and questions inside my Year 11 Community & Family Studies Course. 

My Year 11 Community & Family Studies Course supports Community and Family Studies teachers with strategic and purposeful ways to teach the Year 11 course so students are set up for success. Join over 160 teachers across NSW who have are working with their Year 11 CAFS Crew in a more engaging, more purposeful & meaningful way! To check it out and register, head to:

https://thelearnnet.com/11cafs Hit the "Subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.  Love this Podcast? Write a review and give it a 5 star rating. I would love to hear from you.  To support your time, energy & wellbeing grab my Community and Family Studies resources at: https://thelearnnet.com/resources To have ongoing support alongside likeminded Community and Family Studies teachers across NSW, plus the support and mentorship of Kelly Bell join my Community and Family Studies Membership The CAFS Collective!  https://thelearnnet.com/collective For all the show notes and links head to: https://thelearnnet.com/48 Connect with Kelly on Instgram:  https://thelearnnet.com/kellybell.coach Always cheering & supporting you!  - Kelly

Look, no one has probably told you these things...it is not in the syllabus, I completely get it!

Have you been teaching Community and Family Studies for a while? Are you a Newbie to Community and Family Studies? In today's Podcast episode we unpack the 3 Biggest Mistakes Teachers are Still Making in Community and Family Studies in 2023.  If you want to improve student writing to increase HSC results in Community and Family Studies this Podcast episode is going to be highly valuable to set your students up for success.  The strategies, ideas, resources and templates I share during this Podcast episode are available in my signature program Strive.  Strive supports Community and Family Studies teachers with a skills based approach to improve student writing to increase HSC results. 

This course will give you the templates, resources, strategies & skills for your students to nail every assessment & exam question.  Join over 125 teachers across NSW who have gone from just surviving to thriving inside my Community and Family Studies Strive course.  To check it out and register, head to: https://thelearnnet.com/strive Hurry, rego closes Feb 15 2023 @ Midnight! Hit the "Subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.  Love this Podcast? Write a review and give it a 5 star rating. I would love to hear from you.  To support your time, energy & wellbeing grab my Community and Family Studies resources at: https://thelearnnet.com/resources To have ongoing support alongside likeminded Community and Family Studies teachers across NSW, plus the support and mentorship of Kelly Bell join my Community and Family Studies Membership The CAFS Collective!  https://thelearnnet.com/collective For all the show notes and links head to: https://thelearnnet.com/47 Connect with Kelly on Instgram:  https://thelearnnet.com/kellybell.coach Always cheering & supporting you!  - Kelly 

 

Were you disappointed with your students' HSC results?  Are you being asked to analyse your Community and Family Studies HSC data? It is that time of year when your principal is knocking at your classroom door to get you to analyse results from the 2022 HSC.  Community and Family Studies HSC RAP Data is an essential element of your data analysis where you can work out what was done well, improvements need to be made and necessary actions to improve.  In this episode, we unpack the importance of analysing your Community and Family Studies HSC Results and practical steps you can use to review data from the 2022 HSC.  RAP Data has had the biggest impact on my journey as a HSC Community and Family Studies teacher and I will share with you what I have done to use it to make strategic and purposeful decisions in my CAFS classroom.  The data tells you so much to inform your practice as a teacher and it has certainly had a huge impact on my journey as a Community and Family Studies teacher. So much so, that my signature course Strive has been developed based on the learnings I made in my 16 years in the classroom as a Community and Family Studies teacher.  Doors Open next week for the first time in 2023 and if you would like to grab early access, head to thelearnnet.com/strive Check out the show notes at:

thelearnnet.com/46

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast, a podcast for educators, teachers, entrepreneurs and Community and Family Studies students, I am joined by a very special guest, Megan Durham, who shares with us what we can do to protect our time, our energy and our wellbeing.

If you've followed me for a while you would know that time, energy and wellbeing is the core of The Learning Network, so when Megan I connected, I knew instantly that I wanted her on the podcast.

This episode is really awesome if you're feeling the pinch of this time of the year or you're nervous about the year to come, which I know is the case for many of my Community and Family Studies teachers. If you listen along, you are going to come away from today's episode with so many strategies, tips, hints and wellbeing related things that you can action straight away and I know you're going to really enjoy Meg's analogies!

So listen along and grab the show notes at thelearnnet.com/44 to take the first steps towards unlocking your business potential!