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• VCPSCSE010

  Explain how being prepared to try new things can help identify strategies when faced with unfamiliar or challenging situations

  Elaborations

  • introducing the topics, such as fear, unfamiliar situations, change and challenge, and discussing how these situations make them feel and respond
  • interviewing family members, peers and others about ‘their first day of school,’ or other unfamiliar situations and acknowledging that everyone has fears
  • understanding that giving it a go and trying new things is important and can result in positive experiences and growth, and establishing when this has happened in the past

  VCPSCSE010 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 1 and 2 | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCCCTM071

  Encounter everyday problems and learn how to solve them

  Elaborations

  • exploring objects and their appropriate use in structured situations
  • learning how to solve everyday problems through a set routine or process
  • learning to communicate their needs and request help

  VCCCTM071 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCPSCSE018

  Identify how persistence and adaptability can be used when faced with challenging situations and change

  Elaborations

  • identifying ways to manage potentially difficult or harmful situations by considering possible actions or choices
  • listing a range of help-seeking strategies to assist them to cope with challenge and change
  • discussing the saying ‘If at first you do not succeed try try again’

  VCPSCSE018 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSO011

  Identify how families can have a range of relationships

  Elaborations

  • exploring the features of their family including who lives at home and name their relationships to each of these people
  • brainstorming what is a family’s role, such as providing love, support and food, and identify the family members who undertake these tasks
  • graphing class results showing the number of students who have brothers, sisters and pets

  VCPSCSO011 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 1 and 2 | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCICCD015

  Identify the challenges and benefits of living and working in a culturally diverse society

  Elaborations

  • asking students to imagine themselves in the future or in another country and provide a range of prompts for them to address, such as ‘What does society look like?’, ‘How important is it that society is inclusive?’ or ‘If you could live in another country, where would you go and why?’ and ‘What skills might you need?’
  • identifying attributes that help people forge positive intercultural relationships, such as curiosity, sensitivity, empathy and kindness
  • holding a student-led discussion or role-play about the social challenges that arise from cultural diversity, for example, how people from different backgrounds with different levels of attainment in English experience contemporary Australian society, such as at the local supermarket, when applying for a job, or watching the news
  • creating a portfolio that identifies the characteristics of a ‘monocultural’ society and those of a ‘multicultural’ society , and using reflective prompts to challenge students assumptions, such as by identifying various sub-cultures within each type of society
  • prompting students to identify the criteria they would use to help decide where to live if they were migrating to another country, and extend advanced students by introducing challenges into the scenario, such as linguistic or economic restrictions

  VCICCD015 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 7 and 8 | Cultural Diversity

• VCPSCSE046

  Evaluate behaviours and protective factors that contribute to the development of confidence, adaptability and self-reflection

  Elaborations

  • defining the concept of protective behaviours and give examples
  • identifying factors that lead to improved confidence, adaptability and self-reflection
  • assessing a range of behaviours and the effect these have on their ability to adapt to challenges
  • identifying a challenging situation or task and analyse the factors that contribute to managing the situation or completing the task
  • developing questions to support self-reflection in relation to confidence and adaptability

  VCPSCSE046 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCCCTQ032

  Consider how to approach and use questions that have different elements, including factual, temporal and conceptual elements

  Elaborations

  • identifying whether questions about a prequel or main film or written text should be answered first and explaining why
  • discussing the importance of defining key terms in a question, identifying them and explaining which should be defined first, for example when investigating daily lives of people in Ancient Greece
  • using the purpose of an inquiry to consider choices that can be made when constructing questions about it, for example, sustainable food production techniques in Australia

  VCCCTQ032 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 7 and 8 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ012

  Investigate different techniques to sort facts and extend known ideas to generate novel and imaginative ideas

  Elaborations

  • using a table to compare observable features of living, non-living and once living things; creating a checklist of what makes something living; and using the table and checklist to imagine a new living creature
  • using a technique such as ‘SCAMPER’ to generate novel ideas for the use of particular objects, for example adapting an object originally intended for cooking to be a musical instrument
  • exploring the technique of breaking down a movement sequence into its smaller parts and then rethinking the combination of those parts when creating a new movement sequence
  • exploring strategies to determine the strength of rules to explain patterns of numbers or shapes

  VCCCTQ012 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCPSCSE075

  Identify situations that could be a problem or challenge and discuss relevant self-help skills

  Elaborations

  • expressing and communicating their feelings, needs and choices in increasingly appropriate ways
  • showing a readiness and willingness to be taught how to do some things not yet learned or tried
  • seeking help when they cannot solve a problem or challenge, or when a peer needs help

  VCPSCSE075 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level D | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCNRU017

  Recognise that the languages people use reflect their culture, such as who they are, where and how they live, and find examples of similarities and differences between the language being studied and their own ways of communicating

  Elaborations

  • exploring the meaning of ‘culture’, considering different lifestyles and symbols such as flags, including the Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait Islander flag
  • exploring the significance of different cultural practices, activities and games
  • recognising words that reflect aspects of the culture of the language
  • understanding that particular Australian English terms and expressions have no equivalent in the language, for example, billabong, corroboree, the bush
  • recognising features of the target language interactions which may be similar or different to own ways of communicating

  VCNRU017 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Role of language and culture

• VCCCTQ063

  Explore questions about the world around them

  Elaborations

  • experiencing the sensory characteristics of familiar objects and exploring what is the same and different
  • actively exploring objects and materials in a wide variety of familiar contexts and structured environments
  • exploring the answer to questions related to their feelings and preferences in structured experiences and situations
  • answering questions by making choices and experiencing the consequences

  VCCCTQ063 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities

• VCICCD019

  Identify and analyse the challenges and benefits of living and working in an interconnected and culturally diverse world

  Elaborations

  • creating a portfolio of job advertisements that seek to recruit candidates that can speak a second language or for overseas positions, for example, from the Australian Volunteers for International Development website, and prompt students to identify complementary intercultural skills necessary for these roles
  • evaluating how cross-cultural or intercultural events may help to foster inclusiveness or contribute to division, for example, meetings of the United Nations, international sporting events or trade deals, and relationships between developed and developing nations
  • holding a student-led discussion exploring a complex intercultural topic, such as food security or an international diplomatic issue, and identify the key issues or events and the people and perspectives involved
  • comparing or tracking changing information on the Australian Government’s Smart Traveller website in response to a significant real-time event, such as the Zika virus outbreak or a volcanic eruption
  • exploring the aims of UNESCO, and investigate and discuss the notion of World Heritage Sites, such as the criteria used to confer the status

  VCICCD019 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Cultural Diversity

• VCNRU099

  Recognise and understand characteristic features of common types of text, comparing them with equivalent texts in English

  Elaborations

  • comparing texts in the language with English versions and identifying similarities and differences, for example, postcards, diary entries, emails or a note to a friend
  • identifying characteristic features of familiar text types such as signs, instructions, songs, advertisements and invitations, and noting differences in expression and levels of formality, for example, a wedding invitation or a clothing sale at a store
  • transforming a simple text, such as a short song, into another text type, for example, a conversation or cartoon, applying the key features of the second text type and making comparisons with transforming a similar text in English

  VCNRU099 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCNRU031

  Recognise the linguistic features and structures of different texts used in familiar contexts

  Elaborations

  • identifying the main features of a short narrative, for example, a song, rhyme or poem, a simple description or procedure, for example, a recipe, or a conversation
  • noticing the differences between texts within the same mode, for example, a birthday card and an email, and between multimodal texts, for example, reading the lyrics of a song, and hearing it being sung, or reading a dialogue and acting it out
  • recognising how different textual elements combine to make meaning, for example, how the images, font, script and layout of different texts combine to create a whole advertisement, web-page, or picture book

  VCNRU031 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCPSCSO013

  Describe ways of making and keeping friends, including how actions and words can help or hurt others, and the effects of modifying their behaviour

  Elaborations

  • creating a list of strategies, including words and actions, which students have used to make friends in their life
  • discussing what friendships require to be maintained such as kindness, support, acceptance, respect
  • providing examples of respect to one another showing both words and actions and discussing how negative words and actions can hurt and making suggestions about how to modify behaviours

  VCPSCSO013 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 1 and 2 | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCICCD012

  Examine and discuss the variety of ways in which people understand and appreciate differing cultural values and perspectives, and the things which promote or inhibit effective engagement with diverse cultural groups

  Elaborations

  • examining laws that help to ensure that cultural difference is not a barrier to inclusion in society, for example, the Racial Discrimination Act 1975
  • discussing ways in which the school incorporates multicultural, anti-racism, and human rights perspectives into school practices, for example through inclusive classroom practices
  • exploring ways that people can gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of other cultural customs, for example, through historical sources, language learning, travelling abroad, art works or music
  • using a peer-to-peer interview to explore student understandings about how cultural institutions, such as museums or galleries, present different cultural perspectives
  • providing opportunities for students to explore and reflect on their learning about different cultural groups through journal prompts, such as ‘One interesting thing I now know is that…’ and ‘I am still curious about…’ and ‘One way I could satisfy my curiosity would be to…’

  VCICCD012 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 5 and 6 | Cultural Diversity

• VCPSCSE067

  Change, accept and reject things based on their personal preference

  Elaborations

  • producing responses to specific people and objects based on experience and preference
  • trying a variety of learning activities and developing personal preferences
  • expressing feelings about learning activities

  VCPSCSE067 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level C | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSO012

  Listen to others’ ideas, and recognise that others may see things differently

  Elaborations

  • sharing with a partner things that they like to do and partner then retells the whole class comparing what is similar and what is different
  • providing students with a series of statements, such as cats are better than dogs or chocolate ice-cream is better than vanilla, ask students to share their opinion and provide a reason
  • discussing how opinions and thoughts may change after hearing others’ ideas, and that different views are not better or worse, just different

  VCPSCSO012 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 1 and 2 | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCNRU064

  Apply knowledge of grammatical features and construct compound and complex sentences

  Elaborations

  • using a range of tenses and voices to describe routines and actions
  • using a range of regular and irregular verbs to develop sentence structures
  • creating compound and complex sentences

  VCNRU064 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCICCB006

  Describe what they have learnt about themselves and others from intercultural experiences including a critical perspective on and respect for their own and others cultures

  Elaborations

  • examining the similarities and differences between their cultural practices and those of young people in a place outside Australia and discussing what it would be like to live in these places
  • asking students to describe an intercultural experience or event and prompting students to explore an intercultural experience or event from different perspectives
  • questioning students about their experience in a role-play, modelled or real-life situation which included an intercultural experience: were they excited, challenged, comfortable, curious?
  • exploring the different meanings of the national anthem, Waltzing Matilda and I am Australian or comparing the meanings associated with a range of national anthems from different countries
  • comparing different cultural norms that demonstrate respect, such as when using public transport, at religious events or in relation to grandparents

  VCICCB006 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Cultural Practices