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The Australian Curriculum in NSW –

Ensuring successful implementation

School Development Day April 2013Cathy Brennan, Leader, Curriculum and Leadership Portfolio

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The Australian Curriculum incorporation into 4 new syllabuses:

EnglishMathematicsScience (including Technology K-6)History

Plus aspects that apply to all learning areas

In NSW…

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Kaser and Halbert, 2012

What if learning environments were designed around the needs

of the learnersAND

reflected current knowledge from the learning sciences?

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1.Quality curriculum: learning entitlement for students

2.Professional learning, feedbackand growth: a teaching

entitlement

Beyond Transition to Transformation

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Australian Professional Standards:

Teachers

-Know their students and how they learn;

-Know the content and how to teach it.

Principals, and Executive

-Lead teaching and learning;

-Develop self and others.

What are the imperatives?

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Standard 1: Know students and how they learn

Standard 2: Know the content and how to teach it

Standard 3: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning

Standard 4: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments

Standard 5: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning

Standard 6: Engage in professional learning

Standard 7: Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/ carers and the community

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Australian Professional Standard for Principals

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Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework

Coherence

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Can we afford to have an implementation dip which could be at the expense of

student learning outcomes?

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Change is often much more about individuals. Consider the lesson from psychology: uncertainty and discomfort are actually essential to change. Moving outside the comfort zone, especially when things are going along beautifully, to recognise that there is still room for improvement, innovation and change, is a challenge.

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Quality professional learning processes – systemic actions

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No need to create your own PL programs

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Learning across the curriculum content, including the cross-curriculum priorities and general capabilities, assists students to achieve the broad learning outcomes defined in the Board of Studies K–10 Curriculum Framework and Statement of Equity Principles, and in the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (December 2008).

LEARNING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM in NSW

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Cross-curriculum priorities enable students to develop understanding about and address the contemporary issues they face. The cross-curriculum priorities are:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

Asia and Australia's relationship with Asia

Sustainability

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Cross-curriculum priorities are embedded in all learning areas. They will have a strong but varying presence depending on their relevance to the learning areas.

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General capabilities encompass the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours to assist students to live and work successfully in the 21st century. The general capabilities are:

Critical and creative thinking

Ethical understanding

Information and communication technology capability

Intercultural understanding

Literacy

Numeracy

Personal and social capability

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The Board's syllabuses include other areas identified as important learning for all students:

Civics and citizenship

Difference and diversity

Work and enterprise

Learning across the curriculum content is incorporated, and identified by icons, in the content of each of the new syllabuses. They are equally relevant in all other subjects.

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Numeracy

ICT capability

Critical and creative thinking

Ethical understanding

Intercultural understanding

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• They describe individuals who can manage their own wellbeing, relate well to others, make informed decisions about their lives, become citizens who behave with ethical integrity, relate to and communicate across cultures, work for the common good and act with responsibility at local, regional and global levels.

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•The general capabilities encompass the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that, together with curriculum content in each learning area and the cross-curriculum priorities, will assist students to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century.

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•It is important to recognise that the capabilities are intended to be ‘general’ and operate across the whole curriculum.

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What about inside our schools, too?

Our students are successful learners outside our schools…

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• Board of Studies• ACARA• Education Services Australia (formerly

Curriculum Corporation)

Resources

http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/

https://pb.bos.nsw.edu.au

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The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) released the draft senior secondary Australian curriculum for the English, Mathematics, Science and History learning areas for national consultation in 2012. The Board of Studies consultation on the draft senior secondary Australian curriculum concluded on 27 July 2012.

What’s next?

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Consultation has also occurred for K-12 curriculum:Phase 2 curriculum learning areas:

Geography (2012), The Arts (2012), Languages – Chinese and Italian (April 2013)

Phase 3 curriculum learning areas:Civics and Citizenship (2012), Economics and Business (2012), Health and Physical Education (April 2013), Technologies (closes 10 May 2013)

What’s next?

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The HSC and national assessment

NSW perspective on the HSCNo plans in NSW at this stage to move to

national school leaving credential.

Crystal Ball!

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National Assessment Program:Currently Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) every year.The National Assessment Program is run at the direction of the Standing Council on School Education and Early Childhood (SCSEEC). It includes the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), the three-yearly sample assessments in Science Literacy, Civics and Citizenship, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy, and participation in international sample assessments.

Year NAP Sample Assessment2014 NAP — Information and Communication Literacy2015 NAP — Science Literacy

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Engage with the available support and understand what school changes are required before starting to plan and program the new syllabuses. Review current school practices, considering what is done well and areas for improvement including:- student achievement data and the learning needs of students in your school; - curriculum planning, programming teaching, assessment and reporting practices and how well they meet the learning needs of students.Determine the school’s implementation timeline and plan for action. 2013 has been dedicated to syllabus familiarisation and planning for implementation. In 2014, begin implementation of the NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum.

Suggested school implementation process

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Your mission…

Professional learning starts from teachers identifying what their students need to know and do.

Helen Timperley, 2008We must change our mould to engage students and find their inner resources: we damage students by forcing them to fit a mould that, in the end, distances them from education.

Greg Whitby 2010