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
The Ethical Capability curriculum explores what it means for both an individual and society to live well. Students examine what we ought to do, how we ought to live, what kind of society we should have and what kind of person one should be. These questions concern individuals alone and...
Overview material | Ethical Capability
From Foundation to Level 2, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge, skills and understanding to express reasoning and to problem solve and learn more effectively. Students become familiar with key vocabulary and simple strategies to structure and improve thinking. Students develop...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking
From Foundation to Level 2, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to approach ethical problems and evaluate outcomes. Students develop a vocabulary to engage with ethical problems and an understanding that personal feelings can effect decision-making and actions.
Level description | Capabilities | Ethical Capability
The Personal and Social Capability curriculum is organised into two interrelated strands: Self-Awareness and Management and Social Awareness and Management.
Each strand contains content descriptions that are organised in sub-strands.
| Strands | Self-Awareness and Management | Social Awareness... |
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Overview material | Personal and Social Capability
Critical and Creative Thinking is organised into three interrelated strands: Questions and Possibilities, Reasoning and Meta-Cognition.
| Strands | Questions and Possibilities | Reasoning | Meta-Cognition |
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| Explore the nature of questioning and a range of processes and techniques to develop ideas | Explore... |
Overview material | Critical and Creative Thinking
The curriculum consists of two strands: Understanding Concepts and Decision Making and Actions.
| Strands | Understanding Concepts | Decision Making and Actions |
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Students explore:
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Overview material | Ethical Capability
Responding effectively to environmental, social and economic challenges requires young people to be creative, innovative, enterprising and adaptable, with the motivation, confidence and skills to use critical and creative thinking purposefully. Explicit attention to and application of...
Overview material | Critical and Creative Thinking
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
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
By the end of Level 2, students identify and describe ethical concepts using illustrative examples from familiar situations and a basic vocabulary about ethical problems and their outcomes.
Students identify and explain acts and situations that have ethical dimensions, using illustrative examples...
Level description | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Foundation to Level 2
By the end of Level 2, students begin to distinguish what is familiar and different in the ways culturally diverse individuals and families live. They describe their experiences of intercultural encounters, and identify cultural diversity in their school and/or community.
Students explain how they...
Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Foundation to Level 2
The Personal and Social Capability is essential in enabling students to understand themselves and others, and manage their relationships, lives, work and learning more effectively. The capability involves students learning to recognise and regulate emotions, develop empathy for others...
Overview material | Personal and Social Capability
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
In Levels 1 and 2, the curriculum focuses on enabling students to learn about making and keeping friends and understanding the effects that their actions have on others. Students extend their vocabulary to describe the emotions they experience when interacting with others. Students develop an...
Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability
Intercultural Capability is organised into two interrelated strands: Cultural Practices and Cultural Diversity.
| Strands | Cultural Practices | Cultural Diversity |
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| This strand involves students in describing, observing and analysing characteristics of their own cultural identities and those... |
Overview material | Intercultural Capability
The Intercultural capability curriculum focuses on learning about cultural understandings and practices. Students examine, reflect on and challenge assumptions, stereotypes and prejudices and explore how intercultural experiences can influence and change attitudes and beliefs.
Students apply...
Overview material | Intercultural Capability
VCCCTM018 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Meta-Cognition
VCPSCSO011 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 1 and 2 | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity
VCICCD016 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 7 and 8 | Cultural Diversity