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About Areas of focus
Areas of focus allows teachers to create and save a customised set of syllabus outcomes and progression indicators for a select group of students, to use for explicit teaching of literacy and numeracy across the curriculum and to monitor students’ learning in PLAN2.
With Areas of focus teachers can:
- Select and maintain a focus on any syllabus outcome(s) from any key learning area K-10
- Be guided by NESA mapping of the learning progressions to English and Mathematics syllabus outcomes
- Generate Class observations or Student indicator progress analysis for your Areas of focus without the need to reselect indicators or students
- Create Areas of focus templates that may be shared and used by other teachers in the school.
How to access Areas of focus
Prior to creating an area of focus, it is recommended that you create your small group tuition group first.
From 'PLAN2 - Small group tuition admin'
- Log in to the ALAN homepage.
- Click the PLAN2 - Small group tuition admin link.
- In PLAN2 - Small group tuition admin page, select Area of focus.
From 'PLAN2'
- Select PLAN2 link from the ALAN homepage to open the PLAN2 application.
- From the PLAN2 menu (three horizontal lines in the top right corner), select Areas of focus.
- The Areas of focus screen will open.
How make observations from an Area of focus
1. From the Areas of focus page select the Year level and Class or group to view an existing Area of Focus.
2. To create an area of focus, you can:
- Select a New area of focus
- Create a new focus from a template
- Make a copy of an existing AoF template
- Use a DoE Areas of focus template
2. Once you have selected the Area of focus template, click Observe > Class observations to start your observation.
3. You will be navigated to the Class observations screen.
4. Select the Year level, Class or group and View observations recorded by values then click Generate observations.
5. From this screen you can view, edit and create new class observations.
6. To navigate to the Class observations analysis for the selected Areas of focus group, click on Analyse > Class observations analysis.