P-10+Curriculum

=What are the key documents that inform P-10 Education?=

If you are a //P-10 teacher//, you can access both Australian and Victorian Curriculum Frameworks and a range of explanatory and Online Support Materials. You can find these materials here:

Australian Curriculum, (which you can navigate according to the curriculum area you want to know more about, or by year level).

The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority website has a comprehensive range of materials covering:
 * Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS)
 * AusVELS - the Victorian adaptation of the Australian Curriculum, (which is the Curriculum for Victorian government and Catholic schools for implementation from 2013)

A series of useful links and resources for planning and implementing AusVELS is available via the VCAA website here, including a range of Domain specific resources such as //scope and sequence scaffolds//.

You can also find examples of [|Units of Work] that have been developed for different levels and domains on this VCAA site.

//**Reflective Prompts for P-10 Teachers:**//
 * 1) After familiarising yourself with the broad scope and structure of the documents, choose one area of the curriculum and one year level which you would like to explore further. What are the most important aspects of students' development that these frameworks are asking you, as a teacher, to attend to?
 * 2) From your experience, what have you always strongly attended to anyway?
 * 3) Choose one key concept from the framework - reflect on the consequences for children if you didn't attend to this area of development.
 * 4) Choose one key concept that offers you something new to think about - what is one idea you have for applying this concept in your teaching with a group of students?