Prep to Year 10 Resources
Curriculum that is offered to students from Prep to Year 10 is accompanied by a range of teaching and learning aids to ensure teachers and students maximise the opportunity for education.
| Strands | Domains |
|---|---|
| Physical, Personal and Social Learning | Health and Physical Education |
| Interpersonal Development | |
| Personal Learning | |
| Civics and Citizenship | |
| Discipline-based Learning | The Arts |
| English | |
| Languages other than English (LOTE) | |
| The Humanities - Economics (Levels 4-6) | |
| The Humanities - Geography (Levels 4-6) | |
| The Humanities - History (Levels 4-6) | |
| Mathematics | |
| Science | |
| Interdisciplinary Learning | Communication |
| Design, Creativity and Technology | |
| Information and Communications Technology (ICT) | |
| Thinking Processes |
- The ESL Developmental Continuum P–10 provides indicators of progress for each Stage and dimension of the ESL Standards, to support the assessment of students who are learning English as a second language. Teaching strategies are also provided to assist teachers in the development of effective learning programs for their ESL students.
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Literacy to Learn videos – Teaching students to access, comprehend and respond to texts is an essential feature of learning and teaching across the VELS Domains. The Literacy to Learn videos depict secondary teachers explicitly teaching literacy strategies across a range of Domains that can be included in the regular teaching program and be implemented on a whole class basis.
Guided reading: Reciprocal teaching videos – In the following video clips teachers and their students demonstrate the strategies for reciprocal teaching: predicting, clarifying, question generating, and summarising.
Health and Physical Education
Sexuality Education - provides learning and teaching resources, teaching program development resources, professional learning opportunities, policy information, and student support information, for teachers, school leaders and parents in Victoria.
Mathematics
The Teaching Secondary Mathematics resource is for classroom teachers and school leaders of mathematics, especially from Years 7–10. It assists participants to deepen their knowledge and understanding about mathematics and to build their capacity to create the conditions that will improve mathematics learning and teaching in their school. Key ideas ideas are addressed through nine professional learning modules each with downloadable explanations and presentations.
The Fractions and Decimals Online Interview will allow teachers to better understand their students’ knowledge, skills and behaviours with regard to fractions and decimals, a known ‘hot spot’ of difficulty for many students. It will allow comprehensive collated data to be available that can be compared within schools to better understand student achievement and monitor student progress.
Science
Sample Science is a unit planning resource for primary teachers. It provides engaging and challenging activities that encourage students to explore science ideas. Teachers can sample from these activities to develop units that support students to achieve the VELS Science standards.
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Learning Diversity Resources - range of learning and teaching resources available reflect the diversity of the local community and its education needs.
eLearning and ICT - resources available to students and teachers involved in eLearning are constantly evolving and cover various facets of information and communications technology.
Programs - Grants to schools, innovations, Languages and Multicultural Education Resources Centre (LMERC), multicultural education, National Literacy and Numeracy Week, Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge, school sport, Schools for Innovation and Excellence, Strategic Partnerships Program, Student ICT programs, Values education.