ACARA's implementation of the Australian Curriculum will enable students an equal and enriching education throughout the nation. As a future educator and studying for the past 4 years education, it is enlightening to know that in the near future, Australia as a nation will have one type of education for all states. The Australian Curriculum will enable teachers to travel throughout Australia, be able to provide students with a consistent learning experience, and will endeavor to advance and push students in a positive direction.
I am all for the Australian Curriculum and am excited to know that this is the way that education is heading.
The equality of the Australian Curriculum not only for educators as well as students, but for parents, knowing that their children will benefit from equal learning opportunities.
The Learning Areas for the Australian Curriculum currently include: English, Mathematics, Science and History.
General capabilities, a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum, are addressed explicitly in the content of the learning areas. They play a significant role in realising the goals set out in the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MCEETYA 2008) - that all young people in Australia should be supported to become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens.
The Australian Curriculum includes seven general capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy Information and communication technology (ICT) capability Critical and creative thinking Personal and social capability Ethical understanding Intercultural understanding.
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/File/C26D8605-FAA2-4B40-BE10-A15500EE1EB6.
Accordingly, the Australian Curriculum must be both relevant to the lives of students and address the contempor
If you're contemplating using Project-Based Learning or are already trying out the latest craze to hit the modern classroom, you should know about this checklist. It details if you're actually doing it correctly. For example, does your project focus on significant content, develop 21st century skills, and engage students in in-depth inquirty (just to name a few)?
Universal
Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to teaching that consists of designing
course instruction, materials, and content to benefit a broad range of learners,
including students with disabilities.
There are so many great ways that you can make ICT integral to learning in your Early Phase maths program. To help you get started, we've compiled a collection of resources around the theme 'ICTs You Can Count On'. These resources relate to the concepts covered in the five strands of the Years 1 - 10 Mathematics Syllabus. We encourage you to explore them and to learn more about the applications, websites and learning objects that can be used to engage learners in your Early Phase classroom.
This is a great resource to just read about the implementation of PCK in teacher. It goes through a research project a student conducted about he importance of teachers having PCK before starting teaching and how teachers need experience to implement their own teaching pedagogy into the classroom. I just found the research interesting and encourages me to really focus on my own teaching pedagogy.
This blog is aimed at Early Childhood Teachers in Australia and should be very informative. The post about equity and equality being very different could be interesting for all.
I love the second quote! I find my head hurts if I try too hard to imagine not knowing something.
I find as a teacher it really interesting seeing students going from 'I don't understand this' to 'How did I not see this before?'. I love seeing the flash of understanding so I really love that quote!