An Introduction to the Australian Curriculum for Parents Monday 4th March

Our session today will -outline the recommended time provisions for the Australian Curriculum -explain the way the Australian Curriculum is structured -provide some links for more information

The Department of Education is working towards full implementation of the Australian Curriculum by the end of 2020 - Planning, Assessing and Reporting against the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards.

P-12 Curriculum assessment and Reporting Framework -find this information on the Education Queensland Website

How is the Australian Curriculum structured? The three-dimensional design of the Prep– Year 10 Australian Curriculum recognises the importance of disciplinary knowledge, skills and understanding alongside general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities. The Australian Curriculum is designed to help all young Australians to become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens.

How is the Australian Curriculum structured? Eight Leaning Areas English Maths Science HASS Technologies Health and physical Education Languages The Arts

The Learning Areas are either taught, assessed and reported on as a Year Level or Band Year Level Learning Areas are linked to a Year Level -English -Maths -Science -HASS Your child will work towards a Year Level Achievement Standard each year. Banded Learning Areas are linked to a group of year levels Technologies Health and physical Education Languages The Arts Your child will work towards an achievement standard across a band of years.

How is the Australian Curriculum structured? Seven General Capabilities -Literacy -Numeracy -ICT Capabilities -Critical and Creative Thinking -Personal and Social capability -Intercultural understanding -Ethical understanding The general capabilities play a significant role in the Australian Curriculum in equipping young Australians to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century. In the Australian Curriculum, capability encompasses knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions. Students develop capability when they apply knowledge and skills confidently, effectively and appropriately in complex and changing circumstances, in their learning at school and in their lives outside school. addressed through the content of the learning areas

How is the Australian Curriculum structured? Three Cross Curriculum Priorities Sustainability Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures priorities that give students the tools and language to engage with and better understand their world at a range of levels. provide national, regional and global dimensions which will enrich the curriculum through development of considered and focused content that fits naturally within learning areas. addressed through learning areas and do not constitute curriculum on their own, as they do not exist outside of learning areas.

How are the Learning Areas organised? Year Level Description Achievement standard Content Descriptions Presented as a developmental sequence of learning from Prep - Year 10 Year Level Description What are we required to teach in each year level within this learning/subject area? achievement standards describe the depth of understanding and the sophistication of knowledge and skill expected of students at the end of each year level or band of years. What evidence of student achievement does the standard require us to gather? content descriptions specify what Students will learn -seven general capabilities and cross curriculum prioities are identified within the content descriptions General Capabilities and Cross Curriculum priorities

Australian Cuiculum English classes cover: • Maths • Science • Hass • Technologies • The Arts • Health and PE • Language

in English and Japanese Australian Curriculum Bilingual classes cover… In English Bilingual Classes -English in Japanese Bilingual classes - Japanese Literacy - Japanese Numeracy -Health Australian Curriculum in English and Japanese Maths - Science -HASS -Technologies -The Arts - PE

Providing the Australian Curriculum in Prep to Year 10 in Queensland state schools - Recommended guidelines for allocation of time

Australian Curriculum English classes How does this look in the ACE classroom? Learning Area Australian Curriculum English classes English 6 hours Maths 5 hours Science 1 hour 30 mins HASS Technologies 1 hour The Arts Dance, drama or media Health  30 mins Languages 30 mins Teaching Total 22hs 10 mins Allocated time 17 hours + 2hours specialists *These are minimum time allocations - All teachers have discretionary time built into their timetables

How does this look in the Bilingual classroom? Learning Area English Japanese 5 hours 30 mins + 30 mins literacy lesson through NCT   Japanese Literacy 4 hours Maths 2 hours 30 mins 2 hours 30 mins + 1 hour Japanese Science or HASS 1 hour 30 Technologies 30 mins The Arts Dance 30 mins, Drama 30 mins, Media 30 mins Health Health 30 mins Teaching Total 11:00 hrs/ 11:10 hrs 11:00/11:10 Allocated time 10 hours per week

Bilingual classes work on a fortnightly timetable

Where can you see this information?

For more information The Australian Curriculum website for information about the Learning Areas -specific information about achievement standards, content descriptions and year level descriptions for each learning area and each year level or band The Department of Education website for information about P-12 CARF

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