Respect matters: Years 7 and 8
Typically, at this stage, students are starting high school years and are presented with new organisational and personal challenges. Relationships with friends and peers become increasingly important as young people face more complex life decisions. Young …
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Creating texts description
The Creating texts sub-element describes how students become increasingly proficient at creating texts for an increasing range of purposes. Students’ writing moves from representing basic concepts and simple ideas to conveying abstract concepts and complex …
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Food and fibre: Geography
The Australian Curriculum: Geography identifies the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change, as integral to the development of geographical understanding. These are high-level ideas or ways of thinking …
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Career education: linking learning and social entrepreneurship
This illustration of practice describes how Rooty Hill High School approaches a year-long strategy for career education and entrepreneurial learning through a Young Entrepreneurs Program (YEP). In Young Entrepreneurs Week at the end of Term 4, students …
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Sadadeen Primary School
Sadadeen Primary School is a small school in Alice Springs. There are 130 children and around 92 per cent of them are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background and 80 per cent for whom EAL/D (English is an Additional Language or Dialect). The school …
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Staff planning: Adapting the Australian Curriculum to meet the needs of all students
The Woden School offers a supported high school and senior secondary school program to eligible students who meet the ACT Disability Criteria, including students with mild to moderate intellectual disability in addition to other medical conditions or …
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Career education: linking primary school to post school through the Pathways program
This illustration of practice describes how a group of schools in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) plans student development and transition through the use of the Pathways website and Pathways Planning tool. The Pathways website supports schools’ …
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Career education: developing general capabilities across the curriculum
This illustration of practice describes how Kings Meadows High School incorporates the Tasmanian Department of Education My Education initiative to provide career education programs for students in Years 7 to 10. Each term, two My Education days are …
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Career education: linking STEM learning with real-world problem solving
This illustration of practice highlights how Norwood Morialta High School designed a career education program that provided students with the opportunity to develop a range of general capabilities. Students engaged in collaborative learning experiences …
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Career education: skills for work and vocational pathways
This illustration of practice demonstrates how Redcliffe State High School incorporates opportunities to develop the Australian Curriculum general capabilities and a Vocational Education and Training (VET) qualification into the school’s career education …
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Career education: a community approach
This illustration of practice highlights how Broome Senior High School and St. Mary’s College collaborate with a range of local agencies to design a Career Expo and career-related learning experience to celebrate National Careers Week. The Career Expo …
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Food and fibre: F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences
The Australian Curriculum: F–6/7 HASS/Geography identifies the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change as integral to the development of geographical understanding. These are high-level ideas or ways of …
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Why were the progressions developed?
Literacy and numeracy are fundamental to a student’s ability to learn at school and to engage productively in society. Improving literacy/numeracy development is a priority for many schools. The development of the Literacy and Numeracy Progressions has …
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Word bingo – AT
Students learnt various sight words in Vietnamese and reviewed the spelling and pronunciation of these words. Students participated in various activities to reinforce their learning and understanding. In this task, students read high-frequency words on …
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Career education: linking learning with local industry
This illustration of practice highlights how Crystal Brook Primary School and Gladstone High School designed a career education program that provided students with the opportunity to develop general capabilities. The schools worked in partnership as they …
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F-6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 7
Analysing Content descriptions with elaborations: Examine primary sources and secondary sources to determine their origin, purpose and reliability (ACHASSI156) differentiating between primary sources in history (those from the time of the event/person/site …
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Mawson Primary School
Mawson Primary School is situated in the suburbs of Canberra. 50 per cent of the student population has EAL/D. The school offers all students the opportunity to learn Mandarin as a second language. There are several bilingual classes, where students learn …
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Picture match – AT
Students learnt the Arabic alphabet and how to recognise and read basic nouns with appropriate pronunciation. In this task, students were asked to read familiar words aloud in a group and then match the written Arabic word to the appropriate picture.
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Lansdowne Crescent Primary School
Lansdowne Crescent Primary is a city school in Hobart. At the time of filming the school had a population of 400 students from Foundation to Year 6. The school has been implementing the Australian Curriculum since 2011 and has embedded the English, mathematics, …
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Brighton Primary School
Brighton Primary School is a large school incorporating a centre for the hearing-impaired. At the time of filming, there were 619 students at the school. The additional language at the school is Auslan. The school’s vision statement is: ‘Engage, imagine, …
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