Linking the Australian Curriculum and the SACE

1. Linking the Australian Curriculum and the SACE

2. SACE and AustralianCurriculum SACE learning requirements and performance standards capabilities the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, cultures, and perspectives. Australian Curriculum content descriptions and achievement standards general capabilities cross curriculum priorities.

3. SACE Quality Assurance Cycle Planning Improving Clarifying SACE Confirming

4. Elements of Standards, Assessment and Reporting Teachers designing learning Planning Improving Learning-focused reporting Assessment for, of and as learning Australian Curriculum achievement standards Quality and consistency of teacher judgement Confirming Clarifying

5. Understanding by Design Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Wiggins & McTighe (1998)Understanding by Design Determine acceptable evidence Identify desired results Plan learning experiences & activities

6. Understanding by Design Curriculum: Performance Standards Step 1 English Identify desired results

7. Understanding by Design Step 1 continued Identify desired results Who are the learners?

8. Understanding by Design Assessment for, as and of learning Step 2 Determine acceptable evidence Are all of the learning requirements addressed?

9. Understanding by Design Step 3 Assessment for, as and of learning Plan learning experiences & activities Are opportunities provided for all learners?

10. Understanding by Design Step 3 continued Plan learning experiences & activities How does it fit together?

11. Understanding learners Understand me! Do you know how to teach me to extend myself? Do you know how to teach me how to learn? Do you know how I learn? Do you know what I am good at? Do you really believe I can learn? Do you know how to stretch me? Do you know what I think and feel about being in this learning environment? Do you know what makes me persist?

12. Learning Design Learning Design is the ‘glue’ which brings together SA pedagogy with the Australian Curriculum. TfEL and the intended learning of the AC It will help us address our SA research findings about the need to reallychallenge and stretch our kids.

13. Learning Design Bringing together the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of quality teaching and learning to connect the curriculum with our kids The Australian Curriculum in this model provides the frame of reference for what we want our students to learn and the SA TfEL provides the learning principles that inform how we design quality learning.

14. Learning Design involves: thinking deeply about the intended learningfor students as well as recognisingwhat they already bring doing this thinking together finding ways to connect the curriculum with the learners designing learning experiences that are rich in assessment processes which inform the teachingand students’ progress. Learning Design