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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Today the Education Council has endorsed Australian Curriculum in eight learning areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The Australian Curriculum that was endorsed includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>•</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The revised Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum for English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, The Arts, </span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Technologies </span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>and Health and Physical Education.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>•</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum: Languages for Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek, Spanish and Vietnamese.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>•</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Australian Curriculum: Work Studies Years 9-10 (an elective subject designed to ready young people for work).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Revisions to previously available Australian Curriculum have been made to make the curriculum, easier to manage, particularly for primary schools, simplify the curriculum’s presentation, and strengthen the focus on literacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>For Australian Curriculum: Technologies (Design and Technologies, and Digital Technologies)</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>The volume of content in learning areas has been reduced by deleting and clarifying content descriptions. We have introduced optional, single learning area achievement standards for Technologies. The existing subject specific achievement standards will also be available as an alternative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Specific changes:</span></i></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Change to Design and Technologies Scope and Sequence </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Changes to thread ‘Technologies and Society’ (5-8)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Changes to thread ‘Engineering principles and systems’ (5-6)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Changes to thread ‘Food and Fibre’ (5-6)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Changes to thread ‘Food Specialisations’ (5-6) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to name of thread ‘Investigating and Defining’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to name / content of thread ‘Generating and Designing’ (F-2, 5-6, 9-10)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to name / content of thread ‘Producing and Implementing’ (3-10)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to thread ‘Evaluating’ (5-8) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Changes to Digital Technologies Scope and Sequence </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to thread ‘Digital systems’ (F-8)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to thread ‘Representation of Data’ (5-6) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to thread ‘collecting, managing and analysing data’ (5-6)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to thread ‘creating digital solutions by investigating and defining’ (5-6; 9-10)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to thread ‘generating and defining’ (5-6; 9-10)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to thread ‘evaluating’ (3-10) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Change to thread ‘collaborating and managing’ (F-10)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>For over two decades Australia has been moving towards a national approach to schooling, including a national curriculum. After all this time, and through collaborative efforts led by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and involving all Australian states and territories, the first truly Australian Curriculum is now available for use in Australian schools.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>It is a national curriculum built on the best state and territory curricula and shaped by comparison with the best from overseas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>But curriculum is only one part of the story of school learning. The Australian Curriculum does not specify how the content must be taught. Schools and teachers have the flexibility l to make decisions about how they teach the curriculum in accordance with the needs of their students, the requirements of their school and local curriculum authorities. Robert Randall, ACARA CEO, said today, “I welcome today’s endorsement of the Australian Curriculum by the Education Council. It is too early yet to see the true benefits of the national curriculum, but I am confident that young people and the nation are better off as a result of the work done by tens of thousands of people during the last few years. The Australian Curriculum, along with ACARA’s national assessment and reporting programs, are foundations for improving learning outcomes for all young Australians, regardless of where they live or the socio-educational advantages or disadvantage they may have.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>From 18 October, the newly endorsed Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum for English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, The Arts, Technologies, Health and Physical Education; the eleven Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum for Languages and the Australian Curriculum: Work Studies Years 9-10 will be made available on the Australian Curriculum website as version 8.0. Further information will be provided at that time. </span></i></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Larry Spry <br>Lecturer –Teaching Academic <br>University of South Australia <br>School of Education <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Mawson Lakes Campus<br>G2-24 <br>Ph: 8302 5403<br>Mob; 0407103421 <br><a href="mailto:Larry.spry@unisa.edu.au">Larry.spry@unisa.edu.au</a><br>President DATTA Australia & DATTA SA</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>