Curriculum Planning Guidelines – Phase 1: Understanding the context

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Whole school

This phase involves an audit of the current curriculum provision and includes an analysis of all relevant information to build up an understanding of the learner profile. This sets the context for future curriculum planning that will best support student learning.

Victorian Essential Learning Standards – This link provides professional learning activities to support teachers to deepen their understanding of the domains and dimensions of the VELS.

Principles of Learning and Teaching (PoLT) P-12

Principles of Learning and Teaching – This website provides a range of information, resources and professional learning activities to support schools in planning and implementing effective learning and teaching activities for students.

Assessment

Assessment – Assessment is an essential element of the learning and teaching process. This website provides a range of information, resources and tools to support schools to develop appropriate curriculum and pedagogy to meet students' learning needs.

Curriculum Planning Modules

Curriculum Planning Modules – These professional learning modules support schools to develop a whole school curriculum plan reflects the needs of the school community and best supports student learning.

Student diversity – provides resources to strengthen whole school curriculum planning to ensure the needs of diverse students are met.

Equity guidelines

Equity Guidelines – The Equity component of the Student Resource Package is targeted at schools with a significant number of students from low socio-economic background and with lower than expected outcomes in literacy and numeracy. These guidelines have been prepared to assist schools to most effectively utilise their funding to support these students.

Department of Education requirements (PDF - 28Kb) – will assist schools to identify that their curriculum provision meets Department of Education requirements and key curriculum considerations at all stages of learning.