This chart outlines key changes from the 18 Essential Learnings key elements to the seven areas of the Tasmanian Curriculum. For more detail, access the syllabus and support material for each syllabus.
| 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 and subjects |
| Part of an Essential Learning (Communication) and a key element (Being Literate) |
English-literacy (including LOTE) |
Stronger focus on English as a subject and literacy; LOTE included |
| Part of an Essential Learning (Communication) and a key element (Being Numerate) |
Mathematics-numeracy |
Stronger focus on Mathematics as a subject and numeracy |
| Part of World Futures (e.g. Understanding the Natural and Constructed World) |
Science |
Stronger focus on Science as a subject |
| Part of Social Responsibility (four key elements) |
Society and History |
Stronger focus on Society and History as subjects and the discipline of history |
| Part of an Essential Learning (Communication) and a key element (Being Arts Literate) |
The Arts |
Stronger focus on the Arts and areas / subjects in the Arts |
| Part of an Essential Learning (Personal Futures) and a key element (Maintaining Wellbeing) |
Health and wellbeing |
Stronger focus on Health and physical education and current understanding of Health and wellbeing |
| (New area for 2008) |
Vocational and Applied Learning |
This area is new for 2008; enables students to personalise and apply their curriculum learning and establish pathways for education, life and work; stronger focus on vocational and technology-related subjects. |
| Focus on ICTs and a specific key element called Being Information Literate |
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) |
Stronger focus on the use and acquisition of ICT skills in all curriculum areas |
| Thinking at the centre of the curriculum – separate elements for Reflective Thinking and Inquiry |
Thinking |
Stronger focus on acquiring and applying thinking skills in all curriculum areas / subjects |
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