Relevant Websites

Victorian Curriculum: the Victorian approach to Australian Curriculum implementation

VCAA Victorian Curriculum Resources and Support: progression point examples, scope and sequence, planning templates and professional learning support

The VCAA Bulletin is an official VCAA publication for Early Years, Foundation–10, VCE, VCAL and VET. It is available by email subscription or can be downloaded as a PDF from the Bulletin page

ACARA: the background to the development of the Australian Curriculum 

ACARA Australian Curriculum: the Australian Curriculum online, including video introductions for all learning areas

 

Catholic Education Melbourne Policies and Strategies

Learning and Teaching: information about current Catholic Education Melbourne strategy areas, including the Student Wellbeing Strategy

RESource: online educational support for teachers of Religious Education

Catholic Network Australia (CNA) Education Services: access to Scootle and other online resources supporting curriculum implementation (access instructions)

Learning Areas and Capabilities

 The Victorian Curriculum F - 10 learning areas are a clear and deliberate affirmation of the importance of a discipline-based approach to learning, where learning areas are regarded as both enduring and dynamic. The Victorian Curriculum F–10 includes both knowledge and skills. These are defined by learning areas and capabilities. This curriculum design assumes that knowledge and skills are transferable across the curriculum. (VCAA, 2015)

Religious Education is promoted as a specific learning area with its own integrity. It is also acknowledged as a cross curricular dimension of learning where aspects of a Catholic worldview most relevant to education such as Truth, Meaning, Sacramentality and Human Dignity are brought into dialogue with other learning domains to impact the whole of school life, enhancing the Catholic identity of the school. (Religious Education Curriculum Framework draft for consultation, Catholic Education Melbourne 2016 p.5)

 

Learning Areas

• Religious Education
• The Humanities
• Civics and Citizenship
• Economics and Business
• Geography
• History
• English
• Health and Physical Education
• Languages
• Mathematics
• Science
• Technologies
• Design and Technologies
• Digital Technologies
• The Arts
• Dance
• Drama
• Media Arts
• Music
• Visual Arts
• Visual Communication Design

Capabilities

The Victorian Curriculum F-10 includes capabilities, which are a set of discrete knowledge and skills that can and should be taught explicitly in and through the learning areas, but are not fully defined by any of the learning areas or disciplines. A key distinction between the Australian Curriculum F - 10 and the Victorian Curriculum F - 10 is the provision of content descriptions and achievement standards in the four capabilities. ( VCAA, 2015)

• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Ethical Capability
• Intercultural Capability
• Personal and Social Capability

The Australian Curriculum F - 10 includes three additional general capabilities:

• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

The Victorian Curriculum F - 10 design does not include these three general capabilities as separate learning areas or capabilities with discrete knowledge and skills. Given the inclusion of a Literacy strand in English, and the proficiencies of understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning in Mathematics, the VCAA have deemed it unnecessary to define Literacy and Numeracy as a distinct curriculum. The learning of the skills and knowledge defined by the ICT general capability are now embedded in student learning across the curriculum.

For further information visit - The Victorian Curriculum Learning areas and Capabilities page

For learning area focused professional learning visit - The Victorian Curriculum F-10 Resources and Support page 

For assessment and reporting advice visit - Victorian Curriculum F-10 curriculum planning, assessment and reporting page