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Curriculum & Syllabi

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State & Territory Information

Australian Capital Territory

  • ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies [1]
    Senior secondary system.
  • ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies [2]
    [Course Frameworks]
    ‘Course Frameworks are system curriculum documents for Years 11 and 12. They provide the essential basis for the development and accreditation of any course within a designated subject area a common basis for assessment and reporting of student outcomes in courses based on the framework.’ PDF format.
  • ACT Senior Secondary Curriculum
    Covers accreditation, development and more.
  • Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative - ACT
    ‘Sustainability curriculum package.’
  • Curriculum Framework
    ‘The 2007 ACT curriculum framework, Every chance to learn, describes what is essential for ACT students to learn from preschool to year 10.’ Related pages include :
    • Curriculum Design
      Covers both Scope & Sequence, Planning Units of Work and ‘additional [or ‘worthwhile’] learning’.
    • Curriculum Resources
      ‘Resources to support the implementation of the ACT curriculum framework will be progressively published from 2008 as schools work with the framework.’
    • Introduction to the Framework
      A series of downloadable documents [in both .pdf and Word formats] covering the Framework Documents and Framework by bands of Development.
    • Parent Information
      This is a brochure entitled ‘Every Chance to Learn’. Downloadable in .pdf format.
  • Curriculum Programs
    Department of Education & Training.
  • Curriculum Support
    Department of Education & Training. This section of the site is still to be fully developed.

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

  • Curriculum : Assessment
    Curriculum & assessment : Essential Learnings, Learning Areas within Essential Learnings, Kindergarten Development Check [KDC], Learning, Teaching & Assessment Guide.
  • Curriculum Centre
    ‘Curriculum area resources designed specifically for teachers can be accessed at the Curriculum Centre.’
    Department of Education log in required.
  • Curriculum Resources and Support
  • Learning, Teaching and Assessment Guide
    ‘This Learning, Teaching and Assessment Guide is a growing resource that supports educators implementing the Tasmanian Essential Learnings Framework, a curriculum for learners from birth to age 16. The LTAG will cease operation from 16 June 2008. Resources from the LTAG are being enhanced to help teachers implement the Tasmanian Curriculum [see below].’
  • Tasmanian Curriculum
    Provides an Overview and information on standards and implementation.
  • Tasmania Together - Curriculum resources
    ‘These guides provide teachers and students with an introduction and links to Tasmania Together. The ideas given are linked to the areas in the Tasmanian Curriculum. The purpose of these guides is to encourage students to have a say about their future through Tasmania Together [2020].’ You can find a selection of School Case Studies via this site.
  • The Tasmanian Curriculum 2008 …
    [And the Essential Learnings]
    ‘Overview of changes. This chart outlines the main changes from the Essential Learnings Framework to the Tasmanian Curriculum. For further details look at the summary below or access the relevant syllabus and support materials.’
  • TQA
    Syllabi for senior schools.

Victoria

Western Australia

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Commonwealth Information

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General Information

  1. General Sites & Portals :
    • An Action Research Approach to Curriculum Development
      Article with embedded links, references and more. From the University of Sheffield in the UK.
    • ASCD
      [Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development]
      Is ‘a community of educators, advocating sound policies and sharing best practices to achieve the success of each learner.’ Worth joining, while their journal ‘Educational Leadership’ is excellent for this area as well as many others.
    • Australasian Curriculum Assessment Certification Authorities
      ‘ACACA is the national body for the chief executives of the statutory bodies in the Australian States and Territories and in New Zealand responsible for certificates of senior secondary education.’
    • Australian Curriculum Frameworks and Syllabuses [K-10]
      ‘Websites sorted by Curriculum Area’ and listed for each state and territory.
    • Becta
      ‘Becta leads the national drive to improve learning through technology. We also work to support the education workforce to make the best use of technology to improve learning.’ This is a British group that works with schools, school authorities, government and industry. Of particular interest would be the Emerging Technologies for Learning [March 2006] and its follow-up report, the Emerging Technologies for Learning : Volume 2 [2007], both downloadable in .pdf format. Both ‘should open readers up to some of the possibilities that are developing and the potential for technology to transform our ways of working, learning and interacting over the next three to five years.’
    • Curriculum Development
      From the International Bureau of Education of the United Nations [UNESCO]. Covers a range of areas such as Good practices, Action Research, Training Tools and more. Their Resource Bank is well worth visiting, covering research and resources from around the world.
    • Free Curricula Centre
      ‘The Free Curricula Centre helps students worldwide reach their educational potential by producing and distributing university-level curricula that can be copied freely and modified cooperatively. Specifically, FCC serves as a focal point for the development and sharing of textbooks, instructor guides, and other educational materials. These materials, called free curricula, are released at no cost into the public domain or under an “open source” style license.’
    • Good Practice, Curriculum Development
      An interesting site [multiple sections on this], aimed directly at university lecturers. Done by a Canadian university.
    • INCA
      [International Review of Curriculum and Assessment Frameworks Internet Archive]
      ‘INCA provides descriptions of government policy on education in Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland [forthcoming], Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA and Wales. It focuses on curriculum, assessment and initial teacher training frameworks for preschool, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education in schools [3-19 age range].’
    • International Baccalaureate Organization
      Provides information about the structure and content of the three [3] different program levels offered [based on ages]. Find details of all three programs.
    • Journals :
    • National Educational Technology Standards
      ‘The standards, [used in every U.S. state and many countries,] are credited with significantly influencing expectations for students and creating a target of excellence relating to technology - Now, we’re defining what students need to know and be able to do with technology to learn effectively and live productively in a rapidly changing digital world.’
    • National Museum of Australia
      [Curriculum Links]
      Provides a range of these, with an emphasis on Indigenous studies, linked in some detail to specific curriculum areas for each state.
    • Kraus Curriculum Development Library
      ‘This searchable database of curricula brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.’ Take the Free trial to assess its worth.
    • Wilson’s Curriculum Development Index
      A range of topics from defining curriculum through to objectives of various kinds and methods of change. Each topic has information and further related links. His Links is worth visiting as well.
      Well presented.

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