Developing teaching and learning Auslan
Sequences of learning The Australian Curriculum: Languages – Auslan has two learning sequences: one from Foundation to Year 10, and another from Year 7 to Year 10 (Year 7 Entry). The curriculum is written in a series of bands, as follows: Foundation …
Developing teaching and learning | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Structure of Literature Literature
Units Unit 1 develops students’ knowledge and understanding of different ways of reading and creating literary texts drawn from a widening range of historical, social, cultural and personal contexts. Students analyse the relationships between language, …
Structure of Literature | Literature | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims Essential English
Rationale Essential English focuses on consolidating and refining the skills and knowledge needed by students to become competent, confident and engaged users of English in many contemporary contexts including everyday, community, social, further education, …
Rationale/Aims | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Geography Geography
Units In Senior Secondary Geography, students develop their understanding about themes of immediate relevance to them and which have scope for application at a variety of scales, from the local to the global. There are four units: Unit 1: Natural and …
Structure of Geography | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
How can the progressions be used?
The progressions do not describe what to teach; they provide a detailed map of how students become increasingly adept in particular aspects of literacy and numeracy development. Learning area content and achievement standards continue to be the focus …
How can the progressions be used? | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Rationale HASS
In a world that is increasingly culturally diverse and dynamically interconnected, it is important that students come to understand their world, past and present, and develop a capacity to respond to challenges, now and in the future, in innovative, informed, …
Rationale | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Aims History
The Australian Curriculum: History aims to ensure that students develop: interest in, and enjoyment of, historical study for lifelong learning and work, including their capacity and willingness to be informed and active citizens knowledge, understanding …
Aims | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Introduction
The Australian Curriculum: Technologies describes two distinct but related subjects: Design and Technologies, in which students use design thinking and technologies to generate and produce designed solutions for authentic needs and opportunities Digital …
Introduction | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Literacy learning area advice
The learning area advice resources can assist teachers in providing an illustration of how the progressions may be used in learning areas, other than Mathematics and English, to support students’ literacy and numeracy development. They provide authentic …
Literacy learning area advice | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Structure of Earth and Environmental Science Earth and Environmental Science
Units In Earth and Environmental Science, students develop their understanding of the ways in which interactions between Earth systems influence Earth processes, environments and resources. There are four units: Unit 1: Introduction to Earth systems Unit …
Structure of Earth and Environmental Science | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims Literature
Rationale Literature focuses on the study of literary texts, developing students as independent, innovative and creative learners and thinkers who appreciate the aesthetic use of language, evaluate perspectives and evidence, and challenge ideas and interpretations. …
Rationale/Aims | Literature | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Representation of General capabilities Geography
The general capabilities encompass the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that, together with the Geography curriculum content and the cross-curriculum priorities, will help students to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century. The …
Representation of General capabilities | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
How is the numeracy progression related to the Australian Curriculum?
Numeracy skills are explicit teaching in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Students need opportunities to recognise that mathematics is constantly used outside the mathematics classroom and that numerate people apply general mathematical skills …
How is the numeracy progression related to the Australian Curriculum? | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Key ideas
Through their learning in each subject or sub-strand, students develop knowledge and understanding relating to broader enduring ideas that underpin the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Australian Curriculum, which are represented in varying ways …
Key ideas | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Visual Arts
This rationale complements and extends the rationale for The Arts learning area. Visual arts includes the fields of art, craft and design. Learning in and through these fields, students create visual representations that communicate, challenge and express …
Rationale | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Key ideas
Language and culture The interrelationship of language, culture and learning provides the foundation for the Australian Curriculum: Languages. In the languages learning area the focus is on both language and culture, as students learn to communicate meaningfully …
Key ideas | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Links to Foundation to Year 10 Essential Mathematics
For all content areas of Essential Mathematics, the proficiency strands of Understanding, Fluency, Problem solving and Reasoning from the F–10 curriculum are still very much applicable and should be inherent in students’ learning of the subject. Each …
Links to Foundation to Year 10 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
What is the focus of the numeracy progression?
Numeracy development influences student success in many areas of learning at school. The progression can be used to support students to successfully engage with the numeracy demands of the Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum. The National Numeracy …
What is the focus of the numeracy progression? | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Aims Mathematics
The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics aims to ensure that students: are confident, creative users and communicators of mathematics, able to investigate, represent and interpret situations in their personal and work lives and as active citizens develop …
Aims | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Aims
The Australian Curriculum: Languages aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure students: communicate in the target language understand language, culture, and learning and their relationship, and thereby develop an intercultural …
Aims | Languages | F-10 curriculum