ABCDiamond

The draft K-10 Australian Curriculum in English, mathematics, science and history is now being finalised for uploading to the Australian Curriculum Consultation Portal.

In the week of 22 February 2010 this consultation website will be available for everyone to read, review, download or print the draft K-10 curriculum.
It will also be the place where members of the education community can provide feedback and where the on-line feedback survey can be completed.

asprilla

cheers.

itigo

Great heads up - thanks!

Gems

Thanks for the info. Fingers crossed its actually ok as its certainly needed in WA.

Gems

quoll

Good Lord, will wonders never cease! Will bet the ACT will be fighting down to the last tooth and claw. They dont even have a territory wide curriculum, it's all school based!

ABCDiamond

Once we have a National Curriculum, then the NAPLAN results might actually mean something.

Vash the Stampede

I remember the first time they tried this. It was scuppered by WA and TAS.

Hope it gets through!

Mochinbach

*sigh*

I hope this isn't like the UK curriculum.
Here's a box. jump in. Don't fit? Never mind.... if you're not getting a C or above just move aside...

*sigh*

Sorry that's a tad miserable!

NKSK version 2

A national curriculum is critical in this day and age. Just with regard to student mobility, having a number of different state-based curricula does them absoltely no favours.

Plus, in my view, the states (certainly WA) don't have the talent or the drive to create truly excellent courses.

ABCDiamond

Hopefully this will change things like handwriting styles in primary. eg; A QLD child with excellent handwriting who moves to NSW is currently classed as poor in handwriting as they don't use the correct style !

Also they will follow a similar learning process in the same years, instead of one state learning something a year later or earlier. This should really have been implemented before the national NAPLAN tests.

MartinLuther

It probably will be. Lowest common denominator wins.

hoveactually

It looks like some things never change.
The draft Australian curriculum for the key subjects of English, history, science and maths from pre-primary to Year 10 was released for public comment on Monday. It is meant to be phased into schools across the nation by 2013.

Dr Constable said WA needed more time because it had more work to do to overcome the "sizeable difference" between its system and that used in NSW and Victoria, which appeared to be the model on which the new curriculum was based.


http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...get-constable/

NKSK version 2

And that 'sizeable difference' is one of the reasons why WA seems to score so poorly in national results.