Welcome to curriculum initiatives
Curriculum initiatives focus on a range of syllabuses and Key Learning Areas (KLAs). They can cover a number of stages or the whole school.
Australian government Quality Teacher Programme(AGQTP):
Funded by the Australian Government, AGQTP aims to improve teacher quality and increase the number of highly effective Australian schools in order to maximise student learning outcomes.
The Australian Curriculum:
The Commonwealth, State and Territory governments agreed in 2008 that an Australian curriculum should be developed. The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is managing the development of the Australian curriculum. NSW DET has responded to the proposed changes.
Best Start:
Best Start is a new government initiative to increase support for the teaching and learning of literacy and numeracy for our youngest students.
Civics in Practice
The Civics and Citizenship Education program helps young Australians to become active and informed citizens by supporting civics and citizenship education in schools. In 2009, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations provided a grant to the NSW Department of Education and Training, the Catholic Education Commission NSW, and the NSW Association of Independent Schools to foster and document good practice models in teaching civics and citizenship education. This website promotes examples of unit/s of work in civics and citizenship education from schools throughout NSW.
Consistent Teacher Judgement:
A resource for schools that has been revised to reflect the Curriculum Programming and Planning, Assessing and Reporting K-12 policy. Its aim is to help establish the understandings necessary to ensure that consistent teacher judgements about student achievement can occur across all key learning areas.
Curriculum Planning, Programming, Assessing & Reporting to parents K-12:
This satellite website provides information to support parents, teachers and school leaders in understanding the requirements of new policy in curriculum planning and programming, assessing and reporting to parents and in planning for implementation.
HSC Online:
NSW HSC Online is a web site focuses curriculum support on the Higher School Certificate. Forty-six syllabuses are supported on this site as well as professional learning for teacher of Stage 6.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) and curriculum:
These pages capture existing, new and emerging information to support the connected learning - the use of interactive technologies in teaching and learning – from various areas across the NSW Department of Education and Training, research, reports and initiatives from overseas that might motivate and inform our practice.
Integrated Learning in Stage 4: Secondary COGs:
The Integrated Learning initiative being developed by Curriculum K-12 Directorate is part of the 2006-2009 Middle Years Strategy. New materials are now available that will assist schools to design integrated, cross-curriculum units of work for Stage 4 students.
K-4 Initiatives:
Focuses on the early years of schooling from Kindergarten to Year 4. Information is divided into reading recovery, literacy and class size reduction program.
National Asian Languages and Studies in School Program (NALSSP):
This is the internet site of the NALSSP Studies of Asia program for the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education and Training (DET), Australia. The site is primarily designed to support primary and secondary teachers in government schools throughout NSW.The NALSSP Studies of Asia program supports the infusion of studies of Asia in all areas of the school curriculum by providing professional learning, curriculum materials, partnerships and other forms of support.
National Partnership on Literacy and Numeracy:
The National Partnership on Literacy and Numeracy is a joint initiative between the Australian and NSW Governments.It is a state-wide program managed by individual NSW education sectors. Participation in this National Partnership will give teachers and school executive opportunities to embed improvement practices that will further develop their teaching of reading or numeracy.
Quality Teaching:
Developed through Curriculum K-12 Directorate Quality Teaching provides a range of information, school ideas, research and resources to support the implementation of the NSW Quality Teaching model in government schools.
School Libraries and Information Literacy:
School Libraries promotes a range of support services including state-wide policy advice, teaching and learning ideas which integrate technology for teacher-librarians and teachers, resource reviews, professional development opportunities, SCIS, Scan and The School Magazine.
NSW Premier’s Student Volunteering and Service learning:
The NSW Premier’s Student Volunteering Awards program encourages all students to undertake a minimum of 20 hours of volunteering during the time they are enrolled in Years 9 and 10. In appreciation of this contribution to the community, students will receive Premier’s Certificates (Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond respectively) for completing 20, 40, 60 and 80 hours of volunteering.
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