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User notes. Preparation for activity on slide 18:

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  1. User notes Preparation for activity on slide 18: Go to the download page on the AC website (www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Download). Select a learning area on the left and tick the box for scope and sequence charts from the right hand list. Print out the scope and sequence charts and glue them to card. Cut the chart into the discrete content descriptions, ready for teachers to sort.

  2. Understanding the Australian Curriculum

  3. The Australian Curriculum (AC) will only be published online The AC website is the official source of information about the AC http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/

  4. http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ • Start by going to the website • Australian Curriculum homepage • Helpful features • The Guided tour of AC website video • Website user guide

  5. Using the ‘Search’ tool Use ‘ Search’ and type in keywordsto locate the partsof the curriculumof interest to you

  6. Process Work in groups. Each choose a different key word and key into the search bar. What results do you get? Share what you find out. Keep a list of words you cannot find and as you become more familiar with the website you will probably come across what you were looking for.

  7. Browsing via the menu bar Browsing linksto the three main parts of the AC: • Curriculum learning areas • General capabilities • Cross-curriculum priorities.

  8. The ‘Curriculum’ button • When you click on the ‘Curriculum’ button, it opensup to look like this • See multiple year levels across one learning area: English, mathematics, science or history • See multiple learning areas across one year level from Foundation to Year 10

  9. Process: exploration Explore the Australian Curriculum website by: using the Search tool browsing via the menu bar using the curriculum button to see multiple year levels and learning areas to find areas of interest

  10. ‘General Capabilities’ button • Click on general capabilities button • Drop downmenu showsthe 7 general capabilities

  11. ‘Cross-curriculum priorities’ button • Click on cross-curriculumpriorities button • This shows an overview aboutthe three cross-curriculum priorities • There are links to more information about each priority

  12. Content of Learning Areas • Click on Science

  13. Sections of learning areas • Each learning areahas three sections: • Rationale/Aims • Organisation • Foundation toYear 10 Curriculum

  14. Rationale/Aims • Useful videos • tour of AC sciencecurriculum • lead writerfor science

  15. Process: identifying priorities Read the Rationale and Aims of one learning area. What priorities do you identify? Work as a group to create a list of priorities for the learning area. What are the five most important points?

  16. Organisation section • The Organisation section contains furtherinformation about: • how learning area is organised • relationship between strands • content structure and achievement standards • Left hand menu – links to other parts of the Organisation section

  17. Process: contrast and compare Work in groups Within your group, look at two or more learning areas Contrast and compare the organisational structure of these learning areas. What is the same? What is different?

  18. Foundation to Year 10 curriculum in more depth Foundation (Reception) to Year 10 Curriculum button gives access to content Contentdescribes a continuum of learning from Foundationto Year 10

  19. Process: curriculum continuum This activity supports an understanding of learning, the increasing sophistication of the concepts and the language, and how the learning builds on prior learning. Ask staff to sort the content description cards into a continuum from F–10. Share the reasons for placing the content descriptions in that order. Refer to the scope and sequence and check their order and that of the actual sequence.

  20. Foundation to Year 10 curriculum in more depth – General capabilities • General capabilities are skills and dispositions that are integrated into all learning areas. They are: • Literacy • Numeracy • ICT capability • Critical and creative thinking • Personal and social capability • Ethical behaviour • Intercultural understanding Click on any of these linksto find out how they can belinked to learning areas

  21. Foundation to Year 10 curriculum in more depth – Cross-curriculum priorities • AC brings special attentionto three priorities: • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders histories and cultures • Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia • Sustainability Examples of thesepriorities can be linkedto learning areas

  22. Foundation to Year 10 curriculum in more depth Use the pull down menus to ‘home in’on content that relates to year level, strand, general capabilityor cross-curriculum priority. Example – Scienceand Critical and creative thinkingcontent for Foundation students.

  23. Process: exploration Choose a learning area. Select one year level and one other filter eg history, Year 2 + personal and social capability mathematics, Year 8 + sustainability. 3. Repeat the activity with other combinations. Explore combinations that are relevant in the context of your school.

  24. Foundation to Year 10 curriculum in more depth – achievement standards • The achievement standards: • describe what students are typically ableto understand and do • comprisea written descriptionand a portfolioof annotated student work samples

  25. Process: clarification Work individually. Choose a learning area and a year level. Select a portfolio of annotated work samples. How does this help you to better understand the year level description? Share your understandings with a partner.

  26. Foundation to Year 10 curriculum in more depth – content elaborations • Content elaborations: • are support material • provide illustrationsand/or examplesof the content descriptions

  27. Other buttons on the AC website homepage menu – Frequently Asked Questions • Provide useful information aboutthe AC • Useful for findinganswers to questions, egHow can I provide feedback on the Australian Curriculum?

  28. Other buttons on the AC website homepage menu – Downloading descriptions • Click on the ‘Download’tab to open theDownload page • Here you can selectthe learning area, year level or component ofthe curriculum you needto download • Files will be downloadedin PDF format • Use your PDF tool(egAdobe Acrobat Reader)to save or print this file

  29. More ideas for exploring the AC website! Take a guided tour through the Australian Curriculum by viewing the video clip on the homepage. Ask staff to spend 10 mins locating the curriculum content for the learning areas that they are responsible for. This can be done by searchingby learning area or by looking at the students’year level. Use the site’s filter capability to look for curriculum relating to a learning area and a general capability, egscience and critical and creative thinking. Use the filters to search for curriculum material relating to a learning area and one of the cross-curriculum priorities, egscience and sustainability.

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