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Languages in the Victorian curriculum

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Languages in the Victorian curriculum

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  1. Languages in AusVELS: Victoria’s approach to Languages in the Australian Curriculum AFMLTA National Conference 2013 Saturday 6 July 2013 Presenter: Maree Dellora

  2. Languages in the Victorian curriculum “You cannot say you have mastered a new language if you have not discovered a brand new world, and your new self in it, through the experience of learning it." Associate Professor Ariel Heryanto Indonesian Studies, ANU

  3. What is AusVELS? AusVELSis the F -10 curriculum that all Victorian government and Catholic schools use for planning, assessment and reporting. AusVELSis available to all Independent schools as a model for the effective implementation of the Australian Curriculum (AC)

  4. AusVELS - Australian Curriculum and VELS • is a framework that incorporates • the Australian Curriculum as it is • progressively developed • (Languages curriculum is not yet • ready for implementation) • aims to ensure that teachers do not • have to manage two • different curriculum frameworks • during the development of the AC

  5. From VELS to AusVELS to the AC AusVELS 2015 A double helix model VELS - introduced 2006 A triple helix model Physical, Personal & Social Learning Domains/subjects Discipline-based Learning General Capabilities Cross-curriculum priorities Interdisciplinary Learning

  6. In 2013… In 2013 AusVELS curriculum is comprised of: • four Australian Curriculum subjects (MESH) • the remaining 12 VELS domains • three embedded cross • curriculum priorities

  7. Australian Curriculum

  8. Cross curriculum priorities • Three priorities: • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories • and cultures • Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia • Sustainability • About the cross curriculum priorities: • embedded in domains, but with varying presence • not treated as separate areas of learning • no curriculum content located, rather illustrate how learning can be integrated across the domains

  9. Learning areas still in development: Geography Languages The Arts Health and Physical Education Technologies: inc. ICT and Design and Technology Humanities and Social Sciences: Economics, Business and Civics and Citizenship

  10. General capabilities • Literacy • Numeracy • ICT • Personal and social capability • Critical and creative thinking • Intercultural understanding • Ethical understanding General capabilities underpin flexible and critical thinking, a capacity to work with others and an ability to move across subject disciplines to develop new expertise.

  11. Developing Languages in the Australian curriculum

  12. Structural comparison AC and AusVELS

  13. AusVELS is based on 11 levels http://ausvels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/

  14. How Languages are organised in the AC http://ausvels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/

  15. ACARA consultations on Languages in the Australian curriculum

  16. Languages in the Australian curriculum Innovative aspects of Australian Curriculum for Victorian teachers: language specific approach focus on concepts and processes huge number of valuable teaching ideas in the elaborations intercultural understanding has greater focus and also cross curricular ethical understanding has more status 3 cross curriculum priorities

  17. Languages in the Australian curriculum Possible issues: time allocation role of English status of general capabilities organising strands and sub-strands smaller candidature languages languages at senior secondary level

  18. Intercultural Understanding in the Australian curriculum • Intercultural understanding assumes an integral connection between language and culture, acknowledging language as the primary means through which people establish and exchange shared meaning and ways of seeing the world (Scarino, Dellitt and Vale 2007).

  19. Intercultural Understanding • The learning continuum is organised into these three interrelated organising elements: • Recognising culture and • developing respect • Interacting and empathising with others • Reflecting on intercultural experiences and taking responsibility

  20. Scope of Intercultural Understanding capability “Intercultural understanding combines personal, interpersonal and social knowledge and skills. ….students learn to value and view critically their own cultural perspectives and practices and those of others through their interactions with people, texts and contexts across the curriculum.”

  21. Intercultural Understanding –Values and Dispositions • Intercultural Understanding aims to cultivate in students: • curiosity • care • empathy • reciprocity • respect • responsibility • open-mindedness • critical mindedness

  22. Intercultural Understanding across the curriculum ……….taught explicitly in the Languages learning area and applied, adapted, strengthened and extended in other learning areas

  23. History in the Australian curriculum

  24. Contact Details: • Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) • Maree Dellora • dellora.maree.r@edumail.vic.gov.au • Tel: 9032 1692

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