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SEA Assessment Framework 2019-2023

The Ministry of Education of Trinidad and Tobago has submitted the guidelines for SEA the period 2019-2023.

Assessment Framework for SEA 2019-2023

The Secondary Entrance Assessment 2019 -2023 framework is intended for use by all stakeholders with candidates who are expected to sit the assessment for the period 2019 – 2023. It is based on the English Language Arts and Mathematics Curriculum Guides 2013. This document clearly identifies the: · purpose of the SEA · subjects to be tested · duration of the different papers · objectives that are related to each subject · thinking processes that underlie each objective · distribution of marks by test items

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WHAT WILL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT SUBJICT MATHS ELA AND SPELLING

Each area has a different weighting Math is 50% ELA is 30% Creative writing is 20%. Spelling is not weighted separately it would be part of ELA and creative writing.

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SEA Mathematics Tutorials

The SEA exam assesses mathematical thinking processes such as knowing, applying and reasoning within each of four strands of the MOE’s 2019 – 2023 framework.

Our SEA mathematics video tutorials cover these four strands which are Number, Measurement, Geometry and Statistics.

Our approach to teaching these concepts is through microlearning which allows the child to learn step by step, leading them to the correct answer.

These tutorials go hand in hand with the SEA Mathematics textbook.

The use of technology allows for the endless replay of each lesson which empowers learners to grasp the concept at their own pace.

Mathematics Book

The SEA Success Series Mathematics book works along with the JJ and Friends SEA Mathematics tutorials.

The book covers the four strands of the 2019-2023 syllabus which are Number, Measurement, Geometry and Statistics.

Our approach to teaching these concepts is through micro-learning which allows the child to learn step by step, leading them to the correct answer.

English Language Arts Video Tutorials

Our tutorials provide clear understandable lessons to improve your child’s English writing skills.

Students will learn the proper use of parts of speech, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions.

The use of spelling rules when writing, the making of new words by prefixes and suffixes and the correct use of punctuation and capitalization are explored.

Our tutorials provide SEA type evaluation exercises used as teaching manipulatives to ensure your child achieves their highest possible mark in the SEA exam.

These tutorials work hand in hand with our SEA English Language Arts textbook.

SEA Creative Writing Tutorials

The JJ and Friends SEA creative writing video tutorials contain detailed step by step lessons that highlight the criteria of the SEA ELA writing paper.

The video tutorials guide your child through the necessary steps for report writing, reflective writing, descriptive/narrative descriptive writing and expository writing.

These tutorials go hand in hand with the SEA creative writing textbook, the JJ and Friends checklist, the MAP DOTS chart and the learn chart.

Our Creative writing checklist allows the child to be aware of what is required for a complete, well-written essay.

Within the tutorials, are essays that have been analysed and scored for illustrative purposes.

Creative Writing Book

The JJ and Friends SEA Success Series Creative Writing book goes along with the JJ and Friends SEA Success Series Creative Writing tutorials and teaches your child how to successfully write these essay types through detailed step by step instruction.

Children are taught how to effectively organise ideas, express written ideas clearly and coherently generate a variety of sentence types and demonstrate the accurate use of grammar, spelling and mechanics.

This book is also accompanied by the JJ and friends checklist, the MAP DOTS chart and learn chart.

The book contains a checklist per writing style, written in line with the ELA writing rubric, 2019-2023, that allows the child to become familiar with the requirements needed for achieving a complete, well-written essay.

Learn Chart

The JJ and Friends Learn Chart presents a description of various writing styles.

Knowing the difference between the various writing styles allows your child to effectively execute the requirements for each.

Wall Charts are a great way of helping your child grasp key concepts and encourage learning beyond the classroom.

The fascinating designs on our educational poster are guaranteed to brighten up any space, presenting easily digestible information for our children.

Most effective when used with the JJ and Friends creative writing textbook.

M.A.P.D.O.T.S Chart

Map Dots is a mnemonic device created by JJ and Friends to aid in remembering various literary devices.

The use of literary devices are required for ELA writing, narrative writing according to the MOE’S 2019-2023 rubric.

The use of a wall chart provides information in a concise, easily digestible manner.

Most effective when used with the JJ and Friends creative writing textbook, the JJ and Friends checklist and our learn chart.

SEA Comprehension Tutorials

Our SEA comprehension tutorials were written with the exact specificity towards the thinking processes assessed in the SEA exam.

These tutorials go hand in hand with our SEA comprehension textbooks 1 & 2, the main idea chart and finding answers chart.

Our tutorial videos contain a wide variety of these excerpts; non-fiction and fiction texts, poems and graphic material.

The passage is read to your child with details highlighted, then each question is read and broken down.

Your child is then guided on how to locate the correct answer within the passage.

Comprehension Book 1 & 2

Our comprehension passages, questions and answers are written with the same percentage specificity towards each thinking process of the MOE 2019-2023 framework

Our SEA Comprehension text contains nonfiction and fiction texts, poems and graphic material to help your children develop complete correct answers to comprehension questions.

Important information in excerpts is highlighted so that they can be easily recognised by the child.

Your child is guided on how to locate the correct answer within the passage.

This book is accompanied by the main idea and finding answers chart.

Main Idea Chart

The JJ and Friends Comprehension chart 1 addresses two main components of Comprehension, finding the main idea and inferential questions.

In the SEA exam, the main idea question is always given and inferential type questions are one of the reading comprehension thinking processes tested.

Finding Answers Chart

Breaks down the process of finding answers to comprehension question in an excerpt

Directions are written according to the MOE 2019-2023.

Creative Writing Syllabus & Rubric (for Writers and Tutors)

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Creative Writing Syllabus & Rubric (PDF for viewing) Creative Writing Syllabus & Rubric (PDF for printing)

This is the syllabus I was never given in my university course. After meditating on my own slow and sporadic epiphanies on the subject of writing, I created this giant list of skills and criteria to get a better sense of where I am as a writer, and what I can try to teach my students.

Obviously, this curriculum can’t guarantee that you will become a successful writer. These are just some guidelines that you might consider following if you feel as if you’ve been blundering around aimlessly for a while and not progressing in your craft, or even if you’re not sure whether you want to make writing your career. In case you do, this is the framework I will be referencing when I develop courses and ebooks for The Lady Writers League .

PREPARATION is anything that precedes writing, whether it relates to your warm-up routine, your reading and influences, or your worldbuilding notes, plot outlines, etc.

WRITING is anything that takes place while you’re writing, whether it relates to the actual time you spend putting words on a page, or the months or years of writing and erasing that go into creating a manuscript.

FINISHING is anything that takes places after you’ve finished writing, whether it relates to the revision, the subsequent drafts, the conversations with early readers or editors, or the formatting, packaging and promotion of a finished piece of work.

The Masterpiece

In medieval guilds, the “masterpiece” was the piece of work that a journeyman submitted to the guild for acceptance as a master. This piece would showcase all the techniques they had learnt throughout their studies and travels, and would represent the best work they were (and possibly ever would be) capable of producing. If the journeyman was accepted into the guild as a master, the guild would keep the masterpiece.

Some Observations

• Despite my adoption of the medieval craft hierarchy, I don’t mean to imply that a progression is necessary, or that a lifelong neophyte can’t be as good a writer as a master.▼
• In this sense, it doesn’t matter which level you feel you fall into. What differentiates the levels is your focus and purpose for writing.
• I want to distance the rubric as much as possible from a subjective consideration of “good” and “bad” writing. Quality must follow quantity, in my experience, and developing “good” taste is not nearly as difficult as demonstrating it in your writing.
• Another criteria I’ve used to determine the levels is “earning a living”. In spite of the age-old conflict between art and business, I think (especially in this internet era), the craftsman must be someone who can meet their physical as well as their intellectual and spiritual needs through their work.
• Hopefully this will also help teachers (and writing “gurus”) in deciding what guidance to provide their students, but please remember that the levels are merely conveniences. No matter how neophytic your pupils seem, I recommend following the advice given me by my own writing guru : include something for all learner levels (and a little extra for yourself).
• Each row deals roughly with the same concept, but each cell should nevertheless be considered on its own.
• You can use the rectangles to the left of each cell to mark completion, partial completion or topics that need extra attention.
• Don’t hesitate to add items to the syllabus (I’ve left a blank row for each level for this purpose), but think long and hard about your reasons before you remove anything.
• Practice and contemplate in equal parts.
• To be clear, this isn’t a syllabus for a university course, not even a four-year one. The best a university course can do is guide students in moving from Neophyte to Apprentice, and then give them as much information (and I stress information over feedback) as possible for the work ahead of them.
• Be patient. Some of the individual items on the syllabus are deceptively short – in practice, they can take years to learn.
• I plan on extending and improving this syllabus; currently the bias is towards self-published fiction writing. Extra apologies to poets for the word count-based pass criteria.
• Use this syllabus for good! Feel proud of how far you’ve come, and inspired by the opportunities for learning that still lie before you.  Compile a study list of subjects you feel you need to consciously improve.

▼ The exception might be the final row of the ‘Neophyte’ level – once you come alive to language, I fear you’re a lost cause. You will have to become a writer whether you like it or not.

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