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Australian Curriculum

Australian Curriculum. http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au. General Capabilities. Background. The Melbourne Declaration identifies eight (8) learning areas and was one of two key documents that guided the development of the Australian Curriculum: English Mathematics Science

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Australian Curriculum

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  1. Australian Curriculum http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au General Capabilities

  2. Background The Melbourne Declaration identifies eight (8) learning areas and was one of two key documents that guided the development of the Australian Curriculum: • English • Mathematics • Science • Languages • The Arts • Technologies • The Humanities • Health and Physical Education

  3. The Australian Curriculum Implementation General Capabilities (7) and Cross Curriculum Priorities (3)

  4. The General Capabilities “are a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum, and are taught and assessed in the content of the learning areas … … they underpinand inform our learning and teaching and should be explicit i.e. clearly Identified within each learning area subject program”…

  5. General Capabilities What are the General Capabilities? The Australian Curriculum is underpinned by seven (7) General Capabilities. These are: • Literacy • Numeracy • Information & communication technology capability • Critical and creative thinking • Ethical behaviour • Personal and social capability • Intercultural understanding.

  6. From a Broader Perspective … the notion of general capabilities are not new! … In Australia, there are a number of existing arrangements to address general capabilities/non-technical skills: • Employability Skills Frameworkused in the Vocational Education and Training sector. • Graduate Attributesdeveloped by universities. • Australian Core Skills Framework, foundation skills for the workforce. • The Australian Blueprint for Career Development, which addresses career management competencies considered essential for life long learning. • The Australian Qualifications Framework, which spans all education and training sectors, also refers to four broad categories of Generic Skills. • The Overarching Outcomes, WA Curriculum Framework, and now the • General Capabilities that form part of the new Australian Curriculum for schools. (Employability Skills Framework Stage 1, Final Report , DEEWR, January 2012).

  7. General Capabilitiesare those capabilities deemed essential to assist students ‘manage their life, learning and work’ throughout their lifespan. They are the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that will assist students to live and work as successful independent learners and as active, confident, creative and informed individuals (Shape of the Australian Curriculum – ACARA, December 2010). IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL TEACHERS TO ASSIST STUDENTS TO DEVELOP THESE GENERAL CAPABILITIES

  8. General Capabilities Where Can I Find More Information About the General Capabilities? • Overviews that describe the nature, scope and significanceof each General Capability are on the General Capabilities section of the Australian Curriculum website.

  9. General Capabilities The Capabilities are Identified by these symbols in the Curriculum:

  10. Capabilities in the Learning Areas The General Capabilities are addressed through the learning areas and are identified where they offer opportunities to add depth and richness to student learningin content elaborations. http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/English/Curriculum/F-10

  11. Resource Support – CNA Scootle Go to http://ims.cathednet.wa.edu.au ID: <surname.firstname> Password: <your CathEdNet email password> Another Resource Foundation - 10 “ICT across four Domains” https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1dA5idOGlWJdOHSgNhhMnNjTJpVtqdLwSLoatFo0vOhk

  12. General Capabilities All of the Seven (7) General Capabilities consist of three sections: • Introduction • Organising elements • A continuum across stages of schooling

  13. General Capabilities EXAMPLE: ICT Capability • Introduction “…The capability involves students in learning to make the most of the digital technologies available to them, adapting to new ways of doing things as technologies evolve and limiting the risks to themselves and others in a digital environment…

  14. General Capabilities • The Organising elements The ICT capability is organised into five (5) interrelated elements: • Investigating with ICT • Creating with ICT • Communicating with ICT • Managing and operating ICT • Applying social and ethical protocols and practices

  15. General Capabilities • ICT Continuum Across Stages of Schooling

  16. General Capabilities A learning progression, showing development across bands of year levels. • For Literacy and Numeracy, this work includes descriptions for the end of Years 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10… by the end of 2012, K will be included. • For the other five capabilities presently the work includes descriptions for the end of Years 2, 6 and 10 … by the end of 2012 it will also include K, 4, and 8.

  17. General Capabilities Teaching and assessment of General Capabilities • Teachers are expected to teach and assess General Capabilities to the extent that they are incorporated and identified within each learning area.

  18. General Capabilities How are the General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum Evident in your Learning Area? • Good teaching in each of the learning areas will always contribute to a student’s development of General Capabilities. How do you presently cover the capabilities? Discuss this in your learning area! • Source: Australian Curriculum Site: http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Overview/General-capabilities-in-the-learning-areas • Source: ACARA: Shaping Papers: Phase 2 and 3 -http://www.acara.edu.au/curriculum/curriculum.html e.g. Languages Shaping Paper Page 35

  19. How are the General Capabilities Evident in the Australian Curriculum? • The Australian Curriculum reinforces this expectation by incorporating these seven (7) General Capabilities into learning area content descriptions in ways appropriate to each learning area. Which of the seven (7) General Capabilities will you incorporate in appropriate ways into your learning area? • Source: Australian Curriculum Site: http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Overview/General-capabilities-in-the-learning-areas • Source: ACARA: Shaping Papers: Phase 2 and 3-http://www.acara.edu.au/curriculum/curriculum.html

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