Australian Curriculum
Australian Curriculum
To make our curriculum and assessment products more accessible to classroom teachers, QSA has made some changes to the way the Australian Curriculum material is being presented on our website. The main change is to the presentation of our curriculum and assessment products for Prep (P) to Year 10. The History learning area is the first to be presented in a new, fully integrated and teacher-friendly format. This new format makes it easy for visitors to navigate the resources for a particular learning area or year level, integrating the curriculum content and achievement standards, and assessment and reporting advice, guidelines and resources.
Current definitions of literacy frequently refer to multimedia and multimodal texts. There are references to such materials throughout the , which defines literacy in the following way: In the 21st century, the definition of literacy has expanded to refer to a flexible, sustainable command of a set of capabilities in the use and production of traditional texts and new communications technologies, using spoken language, print and multimedia.
Curriculum Leadership Journal | Helping teachers to explore multimodal texts