New Basics 3-Year curriculum plans

The QCAR Essential Learnings are a rich set of knowledge and skills: an agreed core which schools will use to generate a rich, comprehensive school curriculum. The Essential Learnings identify what should be taught and what is important for students to have opportunities to know, understand and do. The Essential Learnings have been written across four year-level junctures - Years 3,5,7 and 9.

Schools may choose to develop curriculum plans in terms of the year levels within a juncture. The New Basics curriculum planning tool is one example of how schools may choose to plan multiple opportunities for learning and demonstrations of student performance.

New Basics schools develop 3-year curriculum plans which demonstrate planning for the successful enactment of the mandated Rich Tasks at years 3, 6 and 9, their targeted repertoires and delivery of the elements of the four New Basics.

To assist with this process, three planning templates have been provided. These contain suggestions only and are in no way prescriptive. Schools may choose their own processes and formats to develop the "what" and the "how" for New Basics implementation.

The templates are provided as Word documents that can be downloaded. When working in table cells, clicking the right button of the mouse will display a menu that allows the titles of relevant Rich Tasks to be easily accessed and entered.

Ideas and information to assist with this process are also available in the New Basic e-Filter - specifically the New Basics section and the Toolkits section. New Basics trial schools have received copies of the e-Filter on CD-ROM.

Year 1 - 3 plans (new window) 647k
Year 4 - 6 plans (new window) 725k
Year 7 - 9 plans (new window) 874k

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