Texts Essential English
Teachers will use an array of material in class. Texts include literary texts, fiction and non-fiction, media texts, everyday texts, and workplace texts, from increasingly complex and unfamiliar settings, ranging from the everyday language of personal …
Texts | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Texts Literature
Texts can be written, spoken or multimodal, and in print or digital/online forms. Texts provide important opportunities for learning about aspects of human experience and about aesthetic appeal. Teachers may select whole texts and/or parts of texts depending …
Texts | Literature | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Essential Mathematics Essential Mathematics
Essential Mathematics has four units each of which contains a number of topics. It is intended that the topics be taught in a context relevant to students’ needs and interests. In Essential Mathematics, students use their knowledge and skills to investigate …
Structure of Essential Mathematics | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of General Mathematics General Mathematics
General Mathematics is organised into four units. The topics in each unit broaden students’ mathematical experience and provide different scenarios for incorporating mathematical arguments and problem solving. The units provide a blending of algebraic, …
Structure of General Mathematics | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Mathematical Methods Mathematical Methods
Mathematical Methods is organised into four units. The topics broaden students’ mathematical experience and provide different scenarios for incorporating mathematical arguments and problem solving. The units provide a blending of algebraic and geometric …
Structure of Mathematical Methods | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
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 English
The study of English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. It helps create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers and informed citizens. It is through the study of English that individuals learn to analyse, understand, …
Rationale | English | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Health and Physical Education
In an increasingly complex, sedentary and rapidly changing world it is critical for every young Australian to not only be able to cope with life’s challenges but also to flourish as healthy, safe and active citizens in the 21st century. This is a strong …
Rationale | Health and Physical Education | F-10 curriculum
Program of research (2017-2020)
One of the strategic directions in ACARA’s Charter is for ACARA to assemble the evidence base required to review, develop and refine curriculum. ACARA’s current work plan includes a program of research into emerging curriculum trends to inform future …
Program of research (2017-2020) | Publications | Resources and publications
Version 3 of National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions
In December 2019, the then Education Council agreed that Version 3 of the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions (NLNLPs) would be used for the alpha phase of the Online Formative Assessment Initiative in 2020. Consistent with that decision, …
Version 3 of National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Senior secondary English subjects
The senior secondary Australian Curriculum for English is presented in four subjects that share common features. These include the continuing development of students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, speaking, reading, viewing and writing. …
Senior secondary English subjects | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Work Studies - Below satisfactory - Year 10
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can explain the importance of growing self-awareness in improving learning, selecting career information and making career-based decisions. The student can align these to their own capacities. They …
Work Studies - Below satisfactory - Year 10 | Portfolios | Work samples | Resources
Structure
Learner background and time-on-task are two major variables that influence language learning and they provide the basis for the structure of the Australian Curriculum: Languages. These variables are addressed through the specification of content and the …
Structure | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Key ideas
Overarching idea: Creating preferred futures The Technologies curriculum provides students with opportunities to consider how solutions that are created now will be used in the future. Students will identify the possible benefits and risks of creating …
Key ideas | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
PDF documents History
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: History are available as PDF documents. History: Sequence of content 7-10 History: Sequence of achievement 7-10
PDF documents | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
PDF documents Civics and Citizenship
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship are available as PDF documents. Civics and Citizenship: Sequence of content 7-10 Civics and Citizenship: Sequence of achievement 7-10
PDF documents | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
PDF documents Economics and Business
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Economics and Business are available as PDF documents. Economics and Business: Sequence of content 7-10 Economics and Business: Sequence of achievement 7-10
PDF documents | Economics and Business | Humanities and Social Sciences | 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
PDF documents
Numeracy learning progression Introduction to the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions National Numeracy Learning Progression Appendices
PDF documents | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Structure
In the Australian Curriculum, the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area comprises five subjects: F–6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences, and Years 7–10 History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship and Economics and Business. In all five subjects, the …
Structure | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum