Australian Technologies Curriculum Overview
af Jasmine Leuba
1. Achievement Standards
1.1. Defines the quality of learning and Signifies that students are demonstrating the required skills to commence the learning at the next level.
1.2. Provides teachers with a framework of development in each technologies subject and a sequence of expected learning outcomes.
2. Content
2.1. Content Descriptors
2.1.1. Sequences the learning in an appropriate order for the particular band level indicating the knowledge, understanding and skills that students are expected to learn and teachers need to teach.
2.2. Content Elaborations
2.2.1. Expand on the content descriptors and provide teachers with ideas and assistance in what needs to be taught.
3. Cross Curriculum Priorities
3.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
3.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia
3.3. Sustainability
4. Student Diversity
4.1. All students have the right to relevant and rigorous learning opportunities. Teachers need to consider and make adjustments for the range of strengths, interests and abilities of students.
4.1.1. Students with disability
4.1.2. English as an additional language or dialect
4.1.3. Gifted and talented students
5. Links to other learning areas
5.1. English
5.2. Science
5.3. Mathematics
5.4. Geography
5.5. Health and Physical Education
5.6. The Arts
6. General Capabilities
6.1. LIT
6.2. Numeracy
6.3. Information and communication technology capability
6.4. Critical and creative thinking
6.5. Personal and social capability
6.6. Ethical understanding
6.7. Intercultural understanding
7. Teaching Resources
7.1. Digital Technologies Resource
7.1.1. http://dtm4260.edublogs.org/2015/08/07/digital-technologies-classdojos/
7.2. Design and Technology Resource
7.2.1. http://dtm4260.edublogs.org/2015/08/09/foldify/
8. Band Levels
8.1. Foundation to Year 2
8.2. Years 3 and 4
8.3. Years 5 and 6
8.4. Years 7 and 8
8.5. Years 9 and 10
9. Key Ideas
9.1. Creating preferred futures
9.2. Project Management
10. Key Concepts
10.1. Abstraction
10.2. Data
10.3. Specification
10.4. Implementation
10.5. Impacts
10.6. Interactions
10.7. Digital Systems
10.8. Algorithms
11. Subject
11.1. Digital Technologies
11.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding
11.1.2. Process and Production Skills
11.2. Design and Technology
11.2.1. Knowledge and Understanding
11.2.2. Process and Production Skills