Design and Technologies Teaching Ideas by Joanne Villis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://intertecheducation.edublogs.org/. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at [email protected]. This site was created by Joanne Villis (Classroom Teacher, University Tutor, ICT Trainer, founder of Inter-tech Education).
Achievement Standards and Content Descriptors were copied directly from the Australian Curriculum Technologies Website. This is NOT an official site of the Australian Curriculum. Website created April 2014. Last updated 8/11/2014. This site is currently under construction. |
Brief Overview of the Australian Technologies Curriculum
"It is intended that when implementing the curriculum, teachers will select technologies specific content from the Knowledge and understanding strand and ask students to apply the skills in the Processes and production skills strand to that content" (p. 4).
(From my understanding, this means that the topic or focus selected for Design and Technologies would be followed through and complement the Digital Technologies).
(From my understanding, this means that the topic or focus selected for Design and Technologies would be followed through and complement the Digital Technologies).
Bands descriptors:
Band descriptions provide information about the learning contexts that apply to the content descriptions and achievement standards in each Technologies subject in each band.The curriculum for each Technologies subject is written in bands of year levels: • Foundation to Year 2 • Years 3 and 4 • Years 5 and 6 • Years 7 and 8 • Years 9 and 10. |
This site aims to support teachers within each band, by providing resources for each year level which build on the previous year levels knowledge. |
Content descriptors and elaborations:
Content descriptions at each band describe the knowledge, understanding and skills that teachers are expected to teach and students are expected to learn. A concept or skill introduced in one band may be revisited, strengthened and extended in later bands as needed. Content descriptors are intended to help teachers in developing a shared understanding of the content descriptions.
Content descriptions at each band describe the knowledge, understanding and skills that teachers are expected to teach and students are expected to learn. A concept or skill introduced in one band may be revisited, strengthened and extended in later bands as needed. Content descriptors are intended to help teachers in developing a shared understanding of the content descriptions.
Achievement standards:
"An achievement standard describes the quality of learning (the depth of conceptual understanding and the sophistication of skills) that would indicate the student is well-placed to commence the learning required at the next level of achievement" (p.7). Achievement standards have been written for:
"An achievement standard describes the quality of learning (the depth of conceptual understanding and the sophistication of skills) that would indicate the student is well-placed to commence the learning required at the next level of achievement" (p.7). Achievement standards have been written for:
- Foundation to Year 2
- Years 3 and 4
- Years 5 and 6
- Years 7 and 8
- Years 9 and 10