Exploring the Victorian Curriculum for History Education
The Victorian Curriculum F-10 for History aims to foster lifelong interest in historical study, develop critical thinking skills, and enable students to become informed citizens. The curriculum structure includes strands, achievement standards, and a focus on historical concepts and skills. Key messages highlight the program's flexibility and changes in reporting progress. Teachers can access detailed resources and exemplars to support their teaching of History under this curriculum.
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Victorian Curriculum F10 Released in September 2015 as a central component of the Education State Provides a stable foundation for the development and implementation of whole-school teaching and learning programs The Victorian Curriculum F 10 incorporates the Australian Curriculum and reflects Victorian priorities and standards http://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/
Aims History aims to ensure that students develop: interest in, and enjoyment of, historical study for lifelong learning and work, including their capacity and willingness to be informed and active citizens knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the past and the forces that shape societies, including Australian society understanding and use of historical concepts and skills, including sequencing chronology, using historical sources as evidence, identifying continuity and change, analysing cause and effect and determining historical significance capacity to undertake historical inquiry, including skills in the analysis and use of sources, and in explanation and communication of arguments.
Structure Structure: Strands and sub-strands Achievement standards The first achievement standard at Foundation Level 2 and then at Levels 4, 6, 8 and 10. A curriculum for students with disabilities is provided in this learning area.
Key messages The curriculum is designed in two level bands of learning, not single levels as in AusVELS. This provides more flexibility when designing the teaching and learning programs. The historical concepts and skills have been refined and been made more specific. The first achievement standard is at Level 2. New content description display for Levels 7 10 In the Historical Knowledge strand levels 7-8 and 9-10, teachers will find a set of common content descriptions that apply to a range of context choices. Displaying elaborations for Levels 7 10 In the Historical Knowledge strand in levels 7-8 and 9-10, teachers will elect to show or hide elaborations related to their context choice. An annotated example is available here: http://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/static/docs/History%20structure%20annotat ion.pdf Reporting progress in History These changes do cause a break in reporting data and student progress as the teaching program moves from AusVELS History to the Victorian Curriculum F 10 History
