1. Curriculum Planning and the Victorian Essential Learning Standards

2. Why the Victorian Essential Learning Standards?

3. Think of a child who is important to you What knowledge, skills, behaviours, aspirations, outlook on life do you hope for this child? With a partner share your ideas and add to your own Identify what is essential

4. Victorian Essential Learning Standards Refer to the strands, domains and dimensions of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards Compare your list to the essential knowledge, skills and behaviours Note similarities and differences http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/index.html Refer to the strands, domains and dimensions of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards Compare your list to the essential knowledge, skills and behaviours Note similarities and differences http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/index.html

5. Scenario You are leaving school for the day A parent asks you to explain the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and how it is the same and different to what is happening in your school The parent only has two minutes What would you say? With a partner take turns to practise your response

6. Interdisciplinary Learning In your group, read the Learning focus statements and standards for one domain Share main points from each domain What are important messages in this strand? What are curriculum planning considerations?

7. Linking the Interdisciplinary Learning and Discipline-based Learning Strands Read the Learning focus statement and standards for one domain from the Discipline- based Learning Strand Identify the links between the domain you have just read and the Interdisciplinary domains What are the curriculum planning considerations?

8. Physical, Personal and Social Learning Strand Read the Learning focus statements and standards for each of the four domains at one level of this strand. What are the main messages for this level? What are the curriculum planning considerations?

9. Curriculum planning Create a map of the connections between the dimensions in the Victorian Essential Learning Standards using the information in the standards List three ways that you could consider this knowledge in curriculum planning