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• 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

• 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

• VCNRC073

  Adapt and present information, ideas and opinions on a range of issues in a variety of text types and modes selected to suit audience and purpose

  Elaborations

  • presenting texts on a range of topics to inform others, for example, a weather report, a magazine article about an event, a travel brochure promoting a local region or product
  • designing texts such as an advertisement or magazine cover for a particular audience, explaining cultural references and using techniques and effects such as images, music and colour
  • conveying own ideas and information in a range of texts for different audiences, using examples of media texts such as television reports, video clips or social media
  • presenting ideas and information selected from samples of spoken, written and digital texts which convey cultural as well as content information, for example, newspaper headlines, advertisements, notices in public places or graffiti
  • creating informative texts for a range of audiences, such as posters, brochures and web pages promoting new music releases, a favourite holiday destination, a healthy lifestyle

  VCNRC073 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Informing

• VCNRU082

  Discuss the interrelationship between linguistic elements, context, purpose, audience and structure of a wide range of text types and identify how cultural elements are incorporated

  Elaborations

  • recognising main features of a range of text types in the language, for example, plays, songs, poetry, and discussing how they are used and how they add to the richness of the text
  • analysing texts, such as advertisements and magazine articles, and discussing linguistic and cultural elements
  • reading, viewing and listening to different texts in the language, paying attention to how messages can be expressed for different audiences and purposes, for example, reading messages on social media sites, emails, blogs
  • discussing language appropriate to particular text types, such as descriptive language in documentaries and persuasive language in advertisements
  • explaining form, features and purposes of texts, such as how they are organised in terms of layout, headings, sequencing of ideas and stylistic devices, for example, informative language in documentaries and persuasive language in advertisements

  VCNRU082 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCICCB018

  Analyse the ways in which intercultural relationships and experiences have contributed to the development of attitudes, beliefs and behaviours, and how they are manifested in various contexts

  Elaborations

  • using a range of scenarios to hold a student-led discussion about factors that may impact intercultural experiences, for example, welcoming visitors to your home, international adoption, or international aide relations between countries
  • comparing the underpinning assumptions of different national migration policies, for example, by contrasting the White Australia Policy with multicultural policy settings
  • exploring whether there are similarities in the experiences of successive waves of migrants to Australia
  • unpacking the different perspectives cultural groups may hold, for example, the contested usage of ‘Australian/UnAustralian’
  • using episodes of a television show to explore differences in attitudes, such as the SBS show ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’

  VCICCB018 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Cultural Practices

• VCCCTR048

  Investigate the nature and use of counter examples structured as arguments

  Elaborations

  • using a clearly absurd case to construct a counterexample that shows the faulty form of an argument, for example criticising an argument by showing that it is of a similar form to ‘if cats are amphibians, then cats are animals; cats are animals, therefore cats are amphibians.’
  • using ‘if…then’ reasoning to construct a counterexample, for example ‘But if this (other industry) tried this innovation strategy, it would be much more expensive and so not all industries could do it so easily’

  VCCCTR048 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10 | Reasoning

• VCNRU081

  Understand and apply grammatical structures recognising that they serve particular functions and that grammatical choices shape meaning

  Elaborations

  • choosing appropriate terms to describe events across time (present, past and future) and choosing appropriate tense
  • using a range of adverbs and adjectives to modify and intensify meaning
  • using cohesive devices such as conjunctions to link, clarify and sequence ideas and modify meaning in written and spoken texts
  • seeking information using a range of questions
  • continuing to build a metalanguage to describe grammatical concepts and develop learning resources for example, verb charts, vocabulary lists, groups of pronouns, adverbs or adjectives

  VCNRU081 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCICCB017

  Analyse the complex and dynamic interrelationships between and within cultures in a range of contexts and the impact of these interrelationships on their own and others cultural practices

  Elaborations

  • discussing how student’s own expression of cultural practices may be complicated, for example, individuals may share the same nationality but have parents with different cultural heritages and/or linguistic backgrounds
  • analysing multifaceted and complex cultural practices, for example, how religion intersects with and diverges from culture or cultural practices
  • analysing and describing how culture and language use are interrelated and reflect and shape relationships, practices and attitudes between and within cultural communities
  • investigating the context and significant factors that contribute to a current global issue that includes an intercultural dimension, such as people movement, and prompt students to propose actions that may help improve or alleviate contributing factors

  VCICCB017 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Cultural Practices

• Intercultural Capability: Levels 9 and 10 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 10, students critically analyse the complex and dynamic interrelationship between and within cultures and the challenges and benefits of living in an interconnected and culturally diverse world. They evaluate how intercultural relationships and experiences influence attitudes...

  Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 9 and 10

• VCCCTQ045

  Challenge previously held assumptions and create new links, proposals and artefacts by investigating ideas that provoke shifts in perspectives and cross boundaries to generate ideas and solutions

  Elaborations

  • investigating changes to scientific understanding over time, including how new discoveries helped to shift understandings and considering how existing understandings might be shifted in the future
  • discussing how challenging assumptions and being open-minded can assist in developing enterprising behaviours, supported by research on specific entrepreneurs
  • investigating how food myths and fads have been challenged and community perspectives shifted, when planning a community health initiative
  • exploring change in scale as a way to shift perspective, for example beginning with asking ‘what if we could only buy and eat food grown locally’ and then asking ‘what if we could only buy and eat food grown regionally/nationally’ as part of a process for generating suggested responses to improve food security or mitigate an environmental challenge

  VCCCTQ045 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCNRU080

  Use pronunciation rules and apply features of the spoken language being studied such as intonation, stress and rhythm and extend to more advanced spelling and punctuation rules

  Elaborations

  • recognising that pronunciation, rhythm and tempo assist in making meaning in interactions and applying this knowledge to own communication
  • comparing English and sounds and spelling with the language being studied in order to support pronunciation of familiar and unfamiliar words and expressions
  • using accentuation, if applicable, in the language correctly and with appropriate pronunciation
  • building phonic awareness by using and experimenting with sounds and rhythms
  • reinforcing pronunciation, phrasing and intonation skills by reciting and repeating words and phrases in context
  • recognising the role of stress and rhythm in creating emphasis
  • using appropriate spelling and punctuation in a range of written texts

  VCNRU080 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Systems of language

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Levels 9 and 10 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 10, students construct and evaluate questions, including their own, for their effectiveness. They demonstrate a willingness to shift their perspective when generating ideas, resulting in new ways of perceiving solutions.

  Students structure complex valid arguments. They explain...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10

• VCECU019

  Investigate the connections and distinctions between and the relative value of concepts including fairness and equality, and respect and tolerance

  Elaborations

  • discussing whether fairness and equality are the same thing, and if not, which is more important, using examples such as affirmative action, concessions for those with special needs, or differences in tax rates
  • discussing whether there are distinctions in attitudes of respect and tolerance, in relation to, for example, different views on child vaccination
  • discussing why punishments may be unequal and whether this is fair, for example, if applied to the same case in court or in a sporting tribunal

  VCECU019 | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding Concepts

• VCNRC079

  Engage in intercultural experiences, reflecting on own cultural identity and how this shapes personal ways of communicating and thinking

  Elaborations

  • monitoring, evaluating and recording own experiences and reactions when communicating in the language, for example by keeping a diary or journal and considering how perspectives may have changed over time
  • reflecting on and discussing own ways of communicating and behaving and how these may be interpreted by speakers of the language, considering concepts such as ‘culture’, ‘attitudes’, ‘assumptions’ and ‘values’
  • reflecting on the experiences of migrants who speak the language being studied, for example discussing when they came to Australia, the impact they have made on Australian society, and issues of cultural identity

  VCNRC079 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Reflecting

• VCCCTR050

  Investigate use of additional or refined criteria when application of original criteria does not produce a clear conclusion

  Elaborations

  • discussing characteristics of criteria such as specific, measurable, agreed, time-bound and how refining original criteria based on these characteristics can make them more precise
  • using a range of examples to test the strength of given criteria, such as what counts as sustainable and justifying refinements or additions to criteria
  • evaluating the clarity of a proposed conclusion, discussing what role criteria played in reaching that clarity

  VCCCTR050 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10 | Reasoning

• VCNRC076

  Translate and analyse a range of texts comparing interpretations and explaining differences in meaning

  Elaborations

  • exchanging translations of familiar texts with peers, through email or shared spaces such as ePals, and discussing different versions in order to develop a whole-class translation
  • translating, analysing and explaining expressions and idioms encountered in texts, finding ways to convey the meaning and cultural significance
  • translating stories for others, analysing how words can have different meanings when used in different ways in a sentence and explaining the differences to others
  • translating texts to identify and evaluate cultural elements and influences, for example, proverbs and sayings

  VCNRC076 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Translating

• VCPSCSO049

  Investigate personal, social and cultural factors that influence the ability to experience positive and respectful relationships and explore the rights and responsibilities of individuals in relationships

  Elaborations

  • imagining the effect that saying ‘no’ to a request would have on a relationship and how personal, social and cultural factors could influence the outcome
  • using a range of scenarios students develop a list of rights and responsibilities to support respectful relationships
  • outlining how questions such as ‘How does that make you feel?’ or statements such as ‘that must be hard’ can foster respectful relationships

  VCPSCSO049 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCNRC072

  Obtain, analyse and evaluate information and ideas from multiple spoken, written, print or digital sources on a range of issues

  Elaborations

  • gathering information from different sources and reporting to others, for example, interpreting a weather report
  • extracting information, discussing gist and evaluating main ideas of texts, such as a conversation, film or music review, advertisement or article
  • analysing reports of an event from a range of sources, and comparing different perspectives
  • listening to, reading and viewing informational texts such as news reports or feature articles, noting key words, specialised terms or points of information to be used in own news report
  • researching aspects of culture and choosing and explaining a particular course of action, for example, a suitable time to visit countries where the language is spoken, or a suitable holiday for visitors to Australia, for example, designing a poster in the language for visitors to Australia

  VCNRC072 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Informing

• VCECU021

  Distinguish between the ethical and non-ethical dimensions of complex issues, including the distinction between ethical and legal issues

  Elaborations

  • assessing a complex ethical issue that is, one, such as euthanasia, that involves more than one question and area of contestability, a range of diverse people, and/or is part of a wider problem or historical context, to discriminate and explain those features that are of ethical significance, using these questions: who is involved, what are their intentions and what gave rise to the intention (including relevant dispositions)?, Is there something inherently right or wrong in the act itself or interpretation of the issue?, Is there a duty at stake (for example arising out of a perceived right or a particular relationship such as friend to friend, parent to child or doctor to patient)?, What are the possible consequences?, Who is likely to be affected?
  • examining and comparing the ethical significance of codes of conduct, protocols, and legal responsibilities as preparation for undertaking research or working collaboratively
  • exploring a response to an issue such as the use of someone else’s ideas, conditions of factory workers overseas, or the rescuing of adventurers, to identify if there is no legal, but arguably an ethical, obligation

  VCECU021 | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding Concepts