The ACT Education and Training Directorate are responsible for the decision to implement the Australian Curriculum, whilst reserving the right to retain their own territory's priorities and approaches when it comes to curriculum provision and teaching and learning.
Phase 1
The ACT Education and Training Directorate's website states that:
Phase 1
The ACT Education and Training Directorate's website states that:
'The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has finalised the English, Mathematics, Science and History strands as the first of three phases of the Australian Curriculum will be implemented in years K-10 schools between 2011 and 2013.
Other learning areas still being developed in the Australian Curriculum will continue to be taught from the ACT Curriculum Framework Every Chance To Learn until the Australian Curriculum for these learning areas is progressively completed.1'
Other learning areas still being developed in the Australian Curriculum will continue to be taught from the ACT Curriculum Framework Every Chance To Learn until the Australian Curriculum for these learning areas is progressively completed.1'
Phase 2 2
Arts (K - 10)
Geography (K - 10)
Languages (K-10) Italian & Chinese
Phase 3
Health and Physical Education (K-10)
Civics and Citizenship (3- 10)
Economics and Business (5 – 10)
Technologies (K – 10)
Languages (K – 10) Framework for Aboriginal Languages, Framework for Torres Strait Islander Languages, Arabic, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek, Spanish, Vietnamese
Work Studies (9 – 10)
Arts (K - 10)
- Familiarisation and engagement 2014, 2015
- Consolidation 2015
- Implementation 2015, 2016
- Reporting 2016
- Australian Curriculum core content 2017 onwards
Geography (K - 10)
- Familiarisation and engagement 2013, 2014
- Consolidation 2014, 2015
- Implementation 2015, 2016
- Reporting 2016
- Australian Curriculum core content 2017 onwards
Languages (K-10) Italian & Chinese
- Familiarisation and engagement 2015
- Consolidation 2015, 2016
- Implementation 2016, 2017
- Reporting 2017
- Australian Curriculum core content 2018 onwards
Phase 3
Health and Physical Education (K-10)
- Familiarisation and engagement 2015
- Consolidation 2015, 2016
- Implementation 2016, 2017
- Reporting 2017
- Australian Curriculum core content 2018 onwards
Civics and Citizenship (3- 10)
- Familiarisation and engagement 2015
- Consolidation 2015, 2016
- Implementation 2016, 2017
- Reporting 2017
- Australian Curriculum core content 2018 onwards
Economics and Business (5 – 10)
- Familiarisation and engagement 2015
- Consolidation 2015, 2016
- Implementation 2016, 2017
- Reporting 2017
- Australian Curriculum core content 2017 onwards
Technologies (K – 10)
- Familiarisation and engagement 2015
- Consolidation 2015, 2016
- Implementation 2016, 2017
- Reporting 2017
- Australian Curriculum core content 2018 onwards
Languages (K – 10) Framework for Aboriginal Languages, Framework for Torres Strait Islander Languages, Arabic, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek, Spanish, Vietnamese
- Familiarisation and engagement 2015
- Consolidation 2015, 2016
- Implementation 2016, 2017
- Reporting 2017
- Australian Curriculum core content 2018 onwards
Work Studies (9 – 10)
- Familiarisation and engagement 2015
- Consolidation 2015, 2016
- Implementation 2016, 2017
- Reporting 2017
- Australian Curriculum core content 2018 onwards
Downloading the Curriculum
The curriculum can be separated into two sections: (i) The Australian Curriculum and (ii) ACT Curriculum Framework Every Chance To Learn.
(i) The Australian Curriculum
The ACT Education and Training Directorate recommends that all teachers regularly visit the the Australian Curriculum (ACARA) website to ensure that they are using the current version, new work samples and other resources and supporting information that are regularly uploaded to the site. The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks for the Australian Curriculum (developed by Anton Reiter of Effective Curriculum Ideas), which are a more user-friendly version of the Australian Curriculum (that clearly identifies progression between each year level and is presented in tabular form) can be downloaded from here.
(ii) The ACT Curriculum Framework: Every Chance To Learn
The ACT Curriculum Framework Every Chance To Learn can be downloaded from the ACT Education and Training Directorate's Every Chance To Learn website.
(i) The Australian Curriculum
The ACT Education and Training Directorate recommends that all teachers regularly visit the the Australian Curriculum (ACARA) website to ensure that they are using the current version, new work samples and other resources and supporting information that are regularly uploaded to the site. The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks for the Australian Curriculum (developed by Anton Reiter of Effective Curriculum Ideas), which are a more user-friendly version of the Australian Curriculum (that clearly identifies progression between each year level and is presented in tabular form) can be downloaded from here.
(ii) The ACT Curriculum Framework: Every Chance To Learn
The ACT Curriculum Framework Every Chance To Learn can be downloaded from the ACT Education and Training Directorate's Every Chance To Learn website.