Report Findings: Qualitative Data
Participating schools were asked to report against the project aims as part of their evaluation. This section provides a summary of their responses and outlines additional benefits of the project.
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Health and Physical Education - Foundation Year
Understanding emotions Identify and describe emotional responses people may experience in different situations (ACPPS005)
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Health and Physical Education - Years 1 and 2
Understanding emotions Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings (ACPPS020)
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Health and Physical Education - Years 7 and 8
Understanding emotions Analyse factors that influence emotions, and develop strategies to demonstrate empathy and sensitivity (ACPPS075)
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Health and Physical Education - Years 9 and 10
Understanding emotions Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses (ACPPS094)
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Advice for Implementation
Advice School reports and surveys for students and staff members provided valuable insight into what contributes to a successful project. Schools Strong commitment from the school as a whole is vital for the success of such a project. Key to project success …
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Introduction
Science, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and STEM education have become the focus of considerable political, industry and media commentary. Widespread concern about Australia’s performance in STEM disciplines and take-up of STEM careers …
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Report Findings: Benefits & Challenges
Many teachers commented on the unanticipated benefits for their students from their involvement in the STEM Connections project. The development of general capabilities, such as Critical and Creative Thinking, and Personal and Social Capability, was overwhelmingly …
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Fluency description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly faster, smoother, more accurate and expressive in their reading aloud of progressively complex print texts. At higher levels of the progression, students demonstrate comprehension of a text …
Fluency | Reading and viewing | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Online safety: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability
Students develop knowledge, skills and dispositions around ICT and its use, and the ability to transfer these across environments and applications. They learn to use ICT with confidence, care and consideration, understanding its possibilities, limitations …
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Online safety: Personal and Social Capability
Students recognise the unique features of different types of online interactions and mediums, and how these impact on our own emotional responses and those of others. They consider the impact of past and present decisions on people, communities and environments, …
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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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Respect matters: 7-10 History
In History, students gain an understanding of human experience and learn to appreciate the perspectives, beliefs and values of people in the past and present. They develop empathy, communication, team work, and advocacy skills. Students develop an understanding …
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Operating with decimals description
This sub-element focuses on understanding the use of place value in operating with decimals. Decimals are better suited to estimating magnitude than fractions because decimals use the base-ten system to record quantity and fractions do not. However, the …
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Interpreting fractions description
This sub-element emphasises the development of the fraction concept and the size of fractions rather than the development of procedures or algorithmic skills. Understanding the size of a fraction is an indicator of the depth of a student’s understanding …
Interpreting fractions | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Cultural competencies and business acumen through Aboriginal Business Enterprise
Balga Senior High School is a government school located 20km north of the Perth CBD on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk People. The School has a total enrolment of 525 students, of whom 24% are Aboriginal. This illustration of practice highlights …
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How are the progressions and the Australian Curriculum related?
In the Australian Curriculum, learning area content describes the knowledge, understanding and skills that are to be taught in each year or band of years. Achievement standards describe the learning expected of students at each year level or band of years. …
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Outdoor learning: Information and Communication Technology Capability
Outdoor learning can enhance ICT learning by helping students to effectively and safely access online information and services to manage their learning and experiences outdoors. Students can also develop their understanding of the role ICT plays in their …
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Interacting description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at active listening, strategic and respectful questioning and using language to share information and negotiate meaning and outcomes. Students interact across an increasing range …
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Speaking description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at selecting language to express and share ideas, appropriate to audience, purpose and task – in planned speaking situations. This sub-element includes the development of skills …
Speaking | Speaking and listening | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources