Subject News
The Arts
Learn more about Phase 2 and view a draft timeline for the development of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts.
Analysis of public consultation feedback for Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts can now be viewed in the Consultation Feedback Report. The Shape paper can still be viewed on the Australian Curriculum website.
October 2011 will see the commencement of writing for the Australian Curriculum: The Arts.
English
View the Foundation to Year 10 Curriculum for English.
General information about the Australian Curriculum for English can be found on the Australian Curriculum website.
Geography
Draft timeline for the development of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Geography paper is now available on the ACARA website.
The draft Australian Curriculum: Geography is now available for consultation.
This provides stakeholders with the opportunity to provide feedback, which will ultimately shape the Foundation to Year 12 geography curriculum. Submit your comments on the aims, rationale, structure, sequence and key geographical concepts of the draft curriculum, register to do so or log in via the ACARA website.
Health & Physical Education
ACARA is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified individuals to fill the positions of advisory panel members to assist the lead writer in the development of the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education.
To learn more about the role or apply please visit the ACARA website.
History
View the Foundation to Year 10 Curriculum for History.
General information about the Australian Curriculum for History can be found on the Australian Curriculum website.
Professional organisations
HTAA
HTANSW
HTAV
HTAQ
HTAWA
HTA Tas
LOTE
ACARA has announced the release of the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Languages, providing direction for the development of the national languages curriculum. Writing of the curriculum will now commence, starting with F-10 Chinese and Italian as well as a Framework for Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages. Learn more
Weblinks
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations: Languages Education
National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program (NALSSP)
Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (MCEECDYA)
The national plan for languages and education 2009–2012.
Speak, and ye shall find knowledge, The Australian, 2 September 2009
A very interesting article by Kent Anderson, Professor of Asian Studies and Law at the Australian National University and director of the faculty of Asian Studies, and Joseph Lo Bianco, Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne. The article outlines the arguments in favour of teaching a variety of languages and the misconceptions and fallacies often found in the debate about teaching languages. Take a moment to read it and perhaps pass it on to your Principal, school council, curriculum committee etc.
Mathematics
View the Foundation to Year 10 Curriculum for Maths.
General information about the Australian Curriculum for Maths can be found on the Australian Curriculum website.
Professional associations
Australian Association of Mathematics teachers AAMT
Canberra Mathematical Association CMA
Mathematical Association of New South Wales MANSW
Mathematical Association of South Australia MASA
Mathematical Association of Tasmania MAT
Mathematical Association of Victoria MAV
Mathematical Association of Western Australia MAWA
Mathematics Teachers’ Association of the Northern Territory MATANT
Queensland Association of Mathematics teachers QAMT
Science
View the Foundation to Year 10 Curriculum for Science.
General information about the Australian Curriculum for Science can be found on the Australian Curriculum website.
Find out what your colleagues are saying about the Australian Curriculum:
ASTA (Australian Science Teachers’ Association)
SASTA (South Australian Science Teachers’ Association)
SEA*ACT (Science Educators’ Association of the Australian Capital Territory)
STANSW (Science Teachers’ Association of New South Wales)
STANT (Science Teachers’ Association of Northern Territory)
STAQ (Science Teachers’ Association of Queensland)
see also: http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/approach/9200.html
STAT (Science Teachers’ Association of Tasmania)
STAV (Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria)
STAWA (Science Teachers’ Association of Western Australia)
VCAA (Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority)
Vic Physics
Professional Teachers’ Council NSW
Technologies
ACARA has announced Professor Lyndon Anderson as the leader writer for the Initial Advice Paper, and Professor Marilyn Fleer, Associate Professor Howard Middleton and Associate Professor Paul Newhouse as the three co-writers. They will work together with the Technologies Advisory Group to develop the Initial Advice Paper for the Australian Curriculum: Technologies.
A national forum will be convened later in the year to provide feedback on the draft Initial Advice Paper, with this feedback used to form the draft Shape paper in early 2012. Public consultation on the draft Shape paper will then follow, with the writing phase and development of the draft Technologies Curriculum for public consultation set for 2012–2013.
