| The Essential Learnings Framework |
The Tasmanian Curriculum |
Comment |
| Five Essential Learnings and 18 key elements |
7 curriculum areas |
Feedback suggested a focus on more familiar curriculum areas |
| Values, Purposes and Goals |
Refined through consultation |
The values, purposes and goals continue to guide the curriculum |
| Learning, teaching and assessment principles |
Refined through consultation |
The learning, teaching and assessment principles continue to guide the curriculum |
| Thinking at the centre of the curriculum – separate key elements for Reflective Thinking and Inquiry |
Thinking at the centre of the curriculum; thinking skills developed in all curriculum areas |
Feedback suggested retaining a focus on thinking but developing thinking skills in all areas not separately |
| Focus on ICTs and a specific key element (Being Information Literate) |
Focus on ICTs; ICT skills developed in all curriculum areas |
Feedback suggested an ICTs skills checklist, supported by other resources |
| Outcomes, Standards and progressions for 18 key elements, from pre-Standard 1 to 5 |
Standards and Stages in all curriculum areas, from standards 1 to 5 incorporating stages 1-15
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The reporting to parents task force recommended clarity, consistency and more progression points in reporting in all areas |
| Teaching for understanding |
Focus on understanding in all curriculum areas |
Feedback suggested that the focus on understanding should be retained in all curriculum areas |
| Online support through The Learning, Teaching and Assessment Guide (LTAG) |
Online support through the Tasmanian Curriculum Library |
Resources to support the refined curriculum are being progressively added and updated in response to school need |
| (New area for 2008) |
Vocational and Applied Learning |
Enables students and apply their curriculum learning and establish personal pathways for education, life and work |
