Respect matters: Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia
Education about how and why Respect Mattes offers opportunities to include a focus on Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia. For example: Understanding and respecting ourselves and one another Through HPE students can explore and appreciate the diverse …
Respect matters: Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia | Cross-curriculum priorities | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Respect matters: Critical and Creative Thinking
Young people develop critical and creative thinking to respond to complex relationship challenges and pressures of the 21st century. Students develop this capability as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, …
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Online safety: Critical and Creative Thinking
Students identify, explore and clarify online information and use that knowledge in a range of situations. They think broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as critical reasoning, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation …
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Outdoor learning: Critical and Creative Thinking
Outdoor learning can develop students’ ability to think logically, critically and creatively in response to a range of issues, ideas and challenges in relation to nature. Students can learn how to critically evaluate evidence related to the outdoors and …
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Consumer and financial literacy: Critical and Creative thinking
The Critical and Creative Thinking capability is key to the development of consumer and financial literacy. Responding to the ever-changing consumer and financial landscape requires young people to be creative, innovative, enterprising and adaptable, …
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Outdoor learning: Intercultural Understanding
Outdoor learning can give students opportunities to recognise and respect different ways of thinking about outdoor issues. Students also learn about different individual, group and intergroup participation in learning outdoors. They learn to appreciate …
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What do a humanoid robot and the recently awakened Narungga language have in common?
Maitland Lutheran School is an independent, co-educational primary and middle school located in the farming district of Maitland, Yorke Peninsula in South Australia on the traditional lands of the Narungga People. The school has an enrolment of 237 students, …
What do a humanoid robot and the recently awakened Narungga language have in common? | Illustrations of practice | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Resources
Hale School
The Hale School took an initiative to assist students to develop strategies to ingrain ways of thinking mathematically into their learning. They took on a focus of problem-based learning and realised, with the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: …
Hale School | Illustrations of practice | Mathematics proficiencies | Resources
Science - Energy transfer
At St Mary MacKillop College, a Year 8 Science teacher/Sustainability co-ordinator ensured that all students were engaged, supported and challenged during a practical investigation about the transference and transformation of energy and wind turbines. …
Science - Energy transfer | Illustrations of practice | Student diversity | Resources
What happens when cultures collide?
Margate Primary School is a government school located south of Hobart on the traditional lands of the Palawa People. The school has an enrolment of 490 students, of whom 7% are Aboriginal. This HASS illustration of practice shows how staff and Grades …
What happens when cultures collide? | Illustrations of practice | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Resources
Career education: linking learning with local industry
This illustration of practice highlights how Crystal Brook Primary School and Gladstone High School designed a career education program that provided students with the opportunity to develop general capabilities. The schools worked in partnership as they …
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Career education: Career Week, linking learning to real life opportunities
This illustration of practice highlights how Hillman Primary School developed a career education program to assist students to make informed decisions about their study and career options and set goals for the future. Students develop Personal and Social, …
Career education: Career Week, linking learning to real life opportunities | Illustrations of practice | General capabilities and career education | Resources
Mathematics: Money and financial literacy
Inverloch Primary School provides cohesive learning, engagement and wellbeing programs. The ‘Challenging Learning and Growth Mindset’ helps provide a rich theoretical and practical approach to learning. The school caters for the diversity of students …
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Career Education: developing entrepreneurial skills through social enterprise
This Illustration of practice demonstrates how Myrrhee School and Cathedral College Wangaratta incorporate career education in social enterprise programs. In 2015 both schools introduced social enterprise learning through the ACRE Social Enterprise Schools …
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Expressing culture and learning through narrative
Worawa Aboriginal College is an independent middle-years boarding school for Aboriginal girls. It is located in the town of Healesville 52km north-east of Melbourne on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri People. The school has an enrolment of 69 students. …
Expressing culture and learning through narrative | Illustrations of practice | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Resources
English: Creating stories
This Illustration of Practice takes place in a classroom at Emmanuel Christian Community School where a teacher of a class of 27 students, of whom 18 are learning English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D), selects age-appropriate content from …
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Cultural competencies and business acumen through Aboriginal Business Enterprise
Balga Senior High School is a government school located 20km north of the Perth CBD on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk People. The School has a total enrolment of 525 students, of whom 24% are Aboriginal. This illustration of practice highlights …
Cultural competencies and business acumen through Aboriginal Business Enterprise | Illustrations of practice | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Resources
Fire: a burning question
Gordonvale State High School is a government school located south of Cairns in Queensland on the traditional lands of the Malanbarra Yidinji people. It has an enrolment of 862 students, of whom 29% are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. The school …
Fire: a burning question | Illustrations of practice | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Resources
The impact of contact and migration on South Australian language groups
Woodville High School is a government school located in the western suburbs of Adelaide, 10km from the CBD on the traditional lands of the Kaurna People. The school has a total enrolment of 971 students, of whom 15% are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait …
The impact of contact and migration on South Australian language groups | Illustrations of practice | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Resources
Career education: linking STEM learning with real-world problem solving
This illustration of practice highlights how Norwood Morialta High School designed a career education program that provided students with the opportunity to develop a range of general capabilities. Students engaged in collaborative learning experiences …
Career education: linking STEM learning with real-world problem solving | Illustrations of practice | General capabilities and career education | Resources