Draft Australian Curriculum:

Health and Physical Education

Consultation

December 2012

Learning areas

The Melbourne Declaration identifies eight learning areas including:

Health and Physical Education

Curriculum development phases

Phase 1

English

Mathematics

Science

History

Phase 2

Geography

Languages

The Arts

Phase 3Health and

Physical Education

Technologies

Economics, and Business, Civics and Citizenship

Consultation Timeline

8 December 2012Draft Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education F-10 available for consultation

December– March NSW Department of Education and Communities consultation on draft curriculum. - Focus groups - Video conferences- Online survey

12 April 2013ACARA consultation closes

December 2013Curriculum publication date for the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education

Implementation

NSW syllabus development

Australian curriculum

Implementation

• NSW has made no commitment to implementation of the Australian Curriculum for Phase 2 and Phase 3 subjects.

• The Board of Studies will follow its regular cycle of curriculum evaluation and review which will identify priorities for curriculum renewal. When a current syllabus or learning area is identified for renewal the Board will take the opportunity to incorporate Australian curriculum content.

• In all cases, all schools are required to implement current approved NSW Syllabuses until otherwise advised by the Board.

Organisation of the Australian Curriculum

The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education:

• is being developed for Foundation (Kindergarten) to Year 10

• is described in six band levels not Stages

• has achievement standards

• has content descriptions not outcomes

• has content elaborations not ‘learn to’ and ‘learn about’

General capabilities

Literacy

Numeracy

Information and communication

technology (ICT) capability

Intercultural

understandingPersonal and social

capability

Critical and creative thinking Ethical

behaviour

Cross-curriculum priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia

Sustainability

Rationale and aims

Rationale

• describes the nature of the learning area

• provides an outline of learning

Aims

• identify the major learning that students will be able to demonstrate

Organisation of the Australian Curriculum

The Draft Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education is organised into the following bands of learning:

• Foundation

• Years 1-2

• Years 3-4

• Years 5-6

• Years 7-8

• Years 9-10

Organisation of the Australian Curriculum

The Draft Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education:

has two interrelated strands for F-10• Personal, social and community health• Movement and physical activity

Organisation of the Australian Curriculum

The Draft Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education:

• has six key ideas (three in each strand) which organise and frame the development of knowledge, understanding and skills in the strands

Personal, social and community health

Movement and physical activity

• Being healthy, safe and active• Communicating and

interacting for health and wellbeing

• Contributing to healthy and active communities

• Moving our body• Understanding movement• Learning through movement

Organisation of the Australian Curriculum

The Draft Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education:

• has contexts for learning for each strand

Personal, social and community health

Movement and physical activity

• Alcohol and drugs• Food and nutrition• Health benefits of physical activity• Mental health and wellbeing• Relationships and sexuality• Safety

• Active play and minor games• Challenge and adventure

activities• Fundamental movement skills• Games and sports• Health-related physical activities• Rhythmic and expressive

movement

Curriculum Structure

Content Descriptions:

The Draft Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education is structured around content descriptions.

It includes:• Content descriptions which specify what teachers are

expected to teach (mandatory)• Elaborations which are examples that illustrate each

content description (non-mandatory).

Curriculum Structure

An example of a Content description (mandatory) and its Elaborations (non-mandatory) from Year 7 and 8.

Content description (5.22) Adopt roles and responsibilities that support and enhance team cohesion and lead to successful movement outcomes

Elaborations

• reflecting on their role and articulating how the actions they initiated

in that role lead to the achievement of successful outcomes for the

team/s, player/s or participants

• organising and implementing group warm-up and skill practice

activities

Curriculum Structure

Elaborations (continued)

• undertaking the role of coach, giving feedback to individual players

on their

• performance and the team on overall strategies and tactics

• undertaking various roles in physical activities such as team leader,

official, time keeper, score keeper, and referee/umpire

• undertaking various roles associated with the planning of sporting

events such as timetabling, rostering and creating a draw.

Achievement standards

• Achievement standards are provided at the end of each band of learning and include reference to both strands.

• An achievement standard describes the quality of learning expected of students at the end of each year level. (e.g. the depth of their understanding, the extent of their knowledge and the sophistication of their skills)

• Work samples illustrate achievement of the standard.

Is the curriculum appropriately

sequenced F-10? Is the scope of the

curriculum feasible?

Is there evidence of adequate quality and

rigour in the curriculum?

Will the breadth and depth of the content engage and challenge

students?

Does the curriculum cater for diverse

learners?

Do the two strands allow for balance of the health related

and movement related

understanding and skills?

Key questions for evaluating the draft F-10 curriculum

Department of Education and Communities consultation

http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/secondary/pdhpe/ac.htm

ACARA consultation

http://consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au/

Your feedback is appreciated.

Access the Department’s consultation survey when available at http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/secondary/pdhpe/ac.htm

Please send any further written feedback to the PDHPE team at: pdhpe.unit@det.nsw.edu.au

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