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• VCNRC039

  Convey and present information about aspects of personal world, through prepared texts such as diagrams, dialogues and timelines

  Elaborations

  • constructing a visual, digital or narrative profile of the local community for people arriving from overseas, collecting information from public and community texts, such as fliers, newsletters, advertisements and brochures
  • preparing and giving simple oral presentations on personal world, for example, a timeline of growth and change, family celebrations and other special occasions
  • presenting the results of a class survey about aspects of personal world such as daily routines, for example, by creating a poster or digital presentation using diagrams, charts or timelines
  • conveying information to others using descriptive language, for example, producing a simple brochure or an advertisement about a city or tourist attraction in a country where the language is spoken
  • preparing a dialogue with a partner about self
  • using graphic organisers to convey information in particular ways, for example, to show priorities (list/table), to compare statistics or ideas (Venn diagram), or to highlight frequency (graphs)
  • reporting information based on own or group research, and supporting the information with photos, illustrations, captions or diagrams

  VCNRC039 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Informing

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level B description

  In Level B, the curriculum focuses on developing students understanding of the world around them, how to learn and solve everyday problems. Students become familiar with simple strategies to structure and understand the world and thinking. Students are exposed to thinking processes.

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• VCECD017

  Explore the extent of ethical obligation and the implications for thinking about consequences and duties in decision-making and action

  Elaborations

  • placing a range of acts on a continuum from strictly obligatory to ‘above and beyond the call of duty’, and comparing the reasons for and implications of the placements, for example, giving up a full-time job to help family/friends/strangers, obeying rules/the law, handing in small/large amounts of found money, fighting in a war to protect your own country/a neighbouring or far or poor country/a country that has helped you in the past, volunteering at school/in the community, giving first aid at an accident, rescuing people who have disobeyed safety signs
  • discussing the views of a range of major religious traditions and non-religious world views on ethical obligation, to inform a response to an ethical issue, for example responding to global people movements or armed conflict
  • discussing a philosophical view on ethical obligation, for example those of Peter Singer in relation to poverty, and the kind of community change that would occur if those views were followed

  VCECD017 | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Levels 7 and 8 | Decision Making and Actions

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level A description

  In Level A, the curriculum focuses on exposing students to choice making, reasoning and problem solving. Students encounter vocabulary and simple strategies used to structure and improve thinking. Students are learning how to attend to, explore and experience the world around them.

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Foundation to Level 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students use and give examples of different kinds of questions. Students generate ideas that are new to them and make choices after considering personal preferences.

  Students identify words that indicate components of a point of view. They use reasons and examples for different...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2

• Ethical Capability: Levels 7 and 8 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 8, students explain different ways ethical concepts are represented and analyse their value to society, identifying areas of contestability. They articulate how criteria can be applied to determine the importance of ethical concerns.

  Students analyse the differences in principles...

  Level description | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Levels 7 and 8

• Intercultural Capability: Foundation to Level 2 description

  From Foundation to Level 2, the curriculum focus is on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to enable students to learn about cultures in their immediate world. For students at Foundation to level 2, learning typically focuses on their immediate family, home, school and friends....

  Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability

• 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

• Intercultural Capability: Levels 9 and 10 description

  In Levels 9 and 10, the curriculum focus is on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to engage in complex discussions about interrelationships within and between cultures. This includes the less tangible aspects of culture such as values, attitudes, roles, religious beliefs and ways...

  Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability

• Intercultural Capability: Levels 3 and 4 description

  In Levels 3 and 4, the curriculum focuses is on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to enable students to learn about culture relevant to their social world of family, home, school, friends and neighbourhood. This includes cultural practices such as choice of food, clothing or...

  Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level C achievement standards

  By the end of Level C, students answer simple questions about familiar events and topics. They identify a familiar idea or experience with support and make choices from a range of options.

  Students can identify their own point of view. They use personal experience and examples to explain reasons...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level D achievement standards

  By the end of Level D, students answer simple questions related to their own investigation, their feelings or concept. They identify and describe an event or scientific experiment. They generate ideas based on past experience and make choices based on their personal preferences.

  Students can...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D

• Personal and Social Capability: Levels 1 and 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students show an awareness of the feelings and needs of others. They identify and describe personal interests, skills and achievements and reflect on how these might contribute to school or family life. They recognise the importance of persisting when faced with new and...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 1 and 2

• Capabilities | Intercultural Capability: Rationale and Aims

  Rationale

  Intercultural interactions have become a part of everyday life in our increasingly multicultural and globalised world. Developing intercultural knowledge, skills and understandings is an essential part of living with others in the diverse world of the twenty-first century. The Intercultural...

  Overview material | Intercultural Capability

• VCCCTQ056

  Experience the generating of ideas and routine solutions

  Elaborations

  • encountering routines and becoming aware of their participation in these
  • using their senses to explore the world and developing preferences and ideas
  • reacting when routines are varied

  VCCCTQ056 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Questions and Possibilities

• 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

• Personal and Social Capability: Levels 9 and 10 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 10, students reflect critically on their emotional responses to challenging situations in a wide range of contexts. They demonstrate persistence, motivation, initiative and decision-making through completion of challenging tasks. They evaluate personal characteristics, strategies...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10

• VCCCTR005

  Compare and contrast information and ideas in own and others reasoning

  Elaborations

  • sharing points of view and discussing information and ideas used to help reach each point of view
  • talking about two arguments with similar conclusions and identifying the information or ideas used in each identifying similarities and differences

  VCCCTR005 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Reasoning

• VCCCTR058

  Encounter information and ideas through everyday experiences, problems and exploration

  Elaborations

  • experiences their actions and choices being interpreted by an adult
  • reacting and developing ideas about preferences on objects and people in the world around them
  • exposed to the possibility and connection of ideas by exploring objects and events

  VCCCTR058 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Reasoning

• VCNRU067

  Recognise that the language being studied has evolved, that changes have occurred through the ages, and consider factors that have influenced this change

  Elaborations

  • understanding that there may be different forms of the written language being studied, used in different contexts dating from the ancient world to today
  • recognising that meanings of particular words and expressions can originate from earlier times

  VCNRU067 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Language variation and change