Reading page after page of curriculum documents presented in black and white font can inhibit one from easily understanding what a curriculum framework is about and retaining the information required to plan for effective teaching and learning. Harder yet is the task of committing to memory content descriptions contained within in a certain level description and then quickly trying to ascertain the progression from said content descriptor/standard from one page to another. The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks below are the solution to these problems.
The following Progressive Curriculum Frameworks have been designed for educators, parents and students alike to easily identify and understand progression in the expected skills and abilities of students, that are in essence, the heart of the Victorian Curriulum.
The key ideas behind The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks are:
The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks
The key ideas behind The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks are:
- Progression between the statements contained in each level descriptor and standard is clearly denoted by bold text. Each year level is assigned a specific colour.
- The content descriptors and standards are clearly organised in tabular form to show:
(i) Strands
(ii) Sub-strands, and
(iii) Elaborations. - The content descriptors contain the cross-curriculum priorities as denoted by the relevant icons.
Essentially, reading each 5-8 page Progressive Curriculum Framework PDF reduces the need for teachers to read, re-read and compare each sentence and every word in the Victorian Curriculum documents.
Below: A screenshot of The OUTDATED SINCE 2024 The Progressive Curriculum Framework for the Victorian Curriulum Mathematics - Statistics & Probability (Download this framework here or select/click on the image below). Note the bolded words indicate progression/new statements. Coloured font represents each Year level.
Below: A screenshot of The Progressive Curriculum Framework for the Victorian Curriculum Writing (download this framework here).
Note in Level 2 as denoted by bolded & coloured font: the introduction of four new text types, an additional audience, and that punctuation must now be used accurately.
Note in Level 2 as denoted by bolded & coloured font: the introduction of four new text types, an additional audience, and that punctuation must now be used accurately.
The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks in Planners
The Progressive Frameworks for the Victorian Curriculum can be used for a wide variety of teaching and learning practices, including for clearly demonstrating differentiation in planning documents (as pictured below).
An Array of Applications
Educators can use The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks in a variety of ways. So far the known methods of schools implementing the Progressive Curriculum Frameworks include:
- Curriculum Tracking: Teachers/Coordinators can use the frameworks to track taught content
- Curriculum Queries: Teacher can use the easy reading frameworks to quickly answer student, parent and staff queries about the curriculum
- Curriculum Capital: Principals, Coordinators and Leadership Teams can lead a school-wide approach to have each year level team annotate upon the frameworks to effectively 'map' how each year/grade level within a school meets each of the required curriculum areas, essentially capturing the approaches to curriculum that make school x 'great'
- Curriculum Planning To Show Differentiation: Teachers can copy and paste the colour-coded curriculum into curriculum planners to plan and show differentiation
- Curriculum Delivery: Students can use the frameworks to set/choose the areas of Mathematics they wish to learn about (also applies to 'Flipped' classrooms)
- Curriculum Capital: Teachers and coordinators can hyperlink quality lesson materials that address the areas of the curriculum, essentially creating a school-wide knowledge base containing excellent teaching resources and significantly reducing time spent planning and designing lessons
- Assessment (Teacher-led): Teachers can use the frameworks to track student achievement of the required outcomes/content areas
- Assessment (Student-lead): Students can create hyperlinks within the frameworks to open samples of their work, which can then be used by the teacher to assess student competency/achievement of standards
- Assessment: Teachers can eliminate Pre and Post Tests by using Progressive Capacity Matrices.
- Reporting (Teacher-lead): Teachers can use the frameworks to show student achievement via highlighting and annotating on frameworks during parent/teacher interviews
- Reporting (Student-lead): Students can create their own hyperlinks within the frameworks to open student work samples during student-led conferencing
- Rich Assessment Tasks: Students can prove their ability to meet the Victorian Curriculum standards via the use of the follow example of a create their own hyperlinks within the frameworks to open student work samples during student-led conferencing:
Downloads
The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks
The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks have been designed in two formats:
- PDF: For printing in colour so that educators can highlight and annotate upon
the frameworks (right-click to save). - Excel: For educators who wish to work directly on a computer to hyperlink, highlight, annotate or copy the coloured content into planning documents (email Effective Curriculum Ideas for the Excel files).
Select the links below to view/download the current PDF versions of The Progressive Curriculum Frameworks (or right-click to save).
NOTE:
- It is recommended for printing purposes to print these in A3 colour.
- The documents below comply with the ACARA Copyright Guidelines and the VCAA Copyright statement - see the disclaimer here.
- The frameworks marked F-7 are F-10 learning areas without the progressive analysis applied to Years 8-10.
- The original Victorian Curriculum documents can be viewed and downloaded from the VCAA website.
English
English (The Victorian Curriculum)
English (The Victorian Curriculum compared to AusVELS)
- The Victorian Curriculum - Progressive Framework - English - Reading & Viewing - Strands and Subs w Elaborations (F-7)
- The Victorian Curriculum - Progressive Framework - English - Speaking & Listening - Strands and Subs w Elaborations (F-7)
- The Victorian Curriculum - Progressive Framework - English - Writing - Strands and Subs w Elaborations (F-7)
- Spelling Test Mapped to the Victorian Curriculum
English (The Victorian Curriculum compared to AusVELS)
- The Victorian Curriculum vs AusVELS - Progressive Framework - English - Reading & Viewing - Strands and Substrands with Elaborations (F-7)
- The Victorian Curriculum vs AusVELS - Progressive Framework - English - Speaking & Listening - Strands and Substrands with Elaborations (F-7)
- The Victorian Curriculum vs AusVELS - Progressive Framework - English - Writing - Strands and Substrands with Elaborations (F-7)
Mathematics (Outdated since changes to the Mathematics Curriculum in 2024)
Mathematics (The Victorian Curriculum)
Mathematics (The Victorian Curriculum compared to AusVELS)
- The Victorian Curriculum - Progressive Framework - Mathematics - Measurement & Geometry - Strands and Substrands with Elaborations (F-7)
- The Victorian Curriculum - Progressive Framework - Mathematics - Number & Algebra - Strands and Substrands with Elaborations (F-7)
- The Victorian Curriculum - Progressive Framework - Mathematics - Statistics & Probability - Strands and Substrands with Elaborations (F-7)
- Progressive Planner - The Victorian Curriculum - Mathematics - Time - Year 3 Unit
- Progressive Capacity Matrix - The Victorian Curriculum - Mathematics - Time - Year Levels Identified
Mathematics (The Victorian Curriculum compared to AusVELS)
- The Victorian Curriculum vs AusVELS - Progressive Framework - Mathematics - Measurement & Geometry - Strands and Substrands with Elaborations (F-7)
- The Victorian Curriculum vs AusVELS - Progressive Framework - Mathematics - Number & Algebra - Strands and Substrands with Elaborations (F-7)
- The Victorian Curriculum vs AusVELS - Progressive Framework - Mathematics - Statistics & Probability - Strands and Substrands with Elaborations (F-7)
Technologies
Digital Technologies (The Victorian Curriculum)
Health & Physical Education
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