TOP NINE Your Frequently Asked Questions Sharon Foster

|| TOP NINE || Your Frequently Asked Questions Sharon Foster Manager, Victorian Curriculum F-10

Victorian Curriculum F– 10 in 2017 So, what’s new? Learning Areas Capabilities • • • The Arts • Dance • Drama • Media Arts • Music • Visual Communication Design (7 -10) • Visual Arts English Humanities • Civics and Citizenship • Economics and Business • Geography • History Languages Health and Physical Education Mathematics Science Technologies • Design and Technologies • Digital Technologies * Critical and creative thinking Intercultural* Ethical* Personal and social

Victorian Curriculum F– 10 in 2017 But can I use Aus. VELS?

Victorian Curriculum F– 10 in 2017 Are there Cross-Curriculum Priorities?

Victorian Curriculum F– 10 in 2017 Let’s talk Capabilities Critical and Creative Thinking Ethical Capability Intercultural Capability Personal and Social Capability

There’s only so many hours in a day… How do we indicate a time allocation at each layer of curriculum planning? At each layer of documentation, schools will make decisions about how to represent time allocations. Schools may notice within the examples provided that different units of time have been used in different documents. For example, in the Aus. VELS By School: Primary School Example, the school indicates time in ‘Annual Average Hours’, yet in By School: Secondary School Example, the unit of time represented is by 'Average Sessions per week'. Schools may find it useful to discuss how time allocations have been decided on and whether they reflect school-specific priorities to support and improve student achievement, and also to ensure that these decisions are demonstrated consistently across each layer. It is worth noting that the time allocations in each layer of curriculum planning are not a measure of the quality of the teaching and learning program. Time allocations provide basic structural and organisational information. Robert Marzano points out that students need to be given time to learn, and how much time they are given influences the knowledge and skills that can be addressed. http: //www. acara. edu. au/_resources/Curriculum_Design_Paper_version_3_(March_2012). pdf Victorian Curriculum F– 10 in 2017

Victorian Curriculum F– 10 in 2017 Do I have to teach everything? The Victorian Curriculum F– 10 includes both knowledge and skills. These are defined by learning areas and capabilities. This curriculum design assumes that knowledge and skills are transferrable across the curriculum and therefore are not duplicated. For example, where skills and knowledge such as asking questions, evaluating evidence and drawing conclusions are defined in Critical and Creative Thinking, these are not duplicated in other learning areas such as History or Health and Physical Education. It is expected that the skills and knowledge defined in the capabilities will be developed, practised, deployed and demonstrated by students in and through their learning across the curriculum.

Are there links to Early Years? http: //www. education. vic. gov. au/Documents/childhood/providers/edcare/veyldframework. pdf Victorian Curriculum F– 10 in 2017

Victorian Curriculum F– 10 in 2017 What about Students with Disabilities? http: //victoriancurriculum. vcaa. vic. edu. au/static/docs/VC%20 Towards%20 Foundation%20 Levels%20 A-D%20 guidelines%202017. pdf

Victorian Curriculum F– 10 in 2017 PLEASE help me with reporting These guidelines provide advice for Victorian schools on the development of whole-school curriculum plans and reporting student learning achievement based on the Victorian Curriculum F– 10. Specific sectoral requirements related to curriculum provision and reporting are the responsibility of and published by the relevant sectoral authorities. http: //www. vcaa. vic. edu. au/Documents/viccurric/Revised. F-10 Curriculum. Planning. Reporting. Guidelines. pdf

Victorian Curriculum F– 10 in 2017 VCAA websites Now, where’s the rest? ! Victorian Curriculum F-10 http: //victoriancurriculum. vcaa. vic. edu. au Victorian Curriculum F-10 Resources and Support http: //www. vcaa. vic. edu. au/Pages/foundation 10/viccurriculum/viccurrresources. aspx Curriculum Planning Resources: http: //curriculumplanning. vcaa. vic. edu. au/home Queries General Enquiries vcaa. f 10. curriculum@edumail. vic. gov. au Sharon Foster, Manager Victorian Curriculum F-10