Week 6 - 7 Flashcards
SMCK
Subject matter content knowledge
SCSA
School curriculum standards authority
What is SCSA responsible for?
- setting standards of student achievement and for the assessment and certification
of student achievement according to those standards - developing an outline of curriculum and assessment in schools that sets out the
knowledge, understanding, skills, values and attitudes that students are
expected to acquire - guidelines for the assessment of student achievement
The breath of required SMCK
The SCSA prescribes the topics you are required to teach, but the level of
prescriptiveness differs from subject to subject i.e. music – freedom, but history – very
prescriptive
The depth of SMCK
The SCSA sets out the depth of knowledge required by year group (scope and
sequence docs)
Substantive structures
How the basic concepts and principles of the field are organized to incorporate its fact
Syntactic structures
The language used to describe substantive structures. Language can offer a particular
view of facts, making some knowledge appear invalid or more valid
Conservative view (teacher-centric)
I will choose the SMCK I think my students should know
Progressive view (student-centric)
What SMCK could I choose that will build upon student interest,
and be relevant to them?
Curriculum as a lived experience is
- learning experiences teachers intend and plan for
- actual experiences delivered
- meanings, feelings and understanding the lesson generates
- spontaneous opportunities
- things that don’t go to plan
Aims of Australian Curriculum
- national sharing of ideas resources, frameworks and professional development opportunities
- national collaboration in these efforts
- a single, formal national curriculum at the national level
Mparntwe Declaration goals
- Australian education system promotes excellence and quality
- all young Australians become confident and creative individuals, successful lifelong learners, and active informed members of society
General Capabilities
- literacy
- numeracy
- information and communication
- critical and creative thinking
- personal and social capability
- ethical understanding
- intercultural understanding
Cross curriculum priorities
- aboriginal and torres strait islander histories
- Asia and Australia engagement with Asia
- sustainability
Hidden curriculum
- social structures of classrooms
- teachers use of authority
- how teachers engage with students
- teachers use of language
- how teachers discipline
