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Development

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2012

Implementing the Australian Curriculum

Mandurah Region Network Tuesday 14th August 2012

Aims of this Session:

1. To provide participants with some strategies and resources to use in the implementation of the Australian Curriculum at their schools.

2. To provide an opportunity to network and share ideas about AC implementation with colleagues in neighbouring schools.

Outcome Statements VSAustralian Curriculum…..

Some connections …..

Huntingdale Primary School - Teacher Development School

Number & Algebra

Number and Place Value (F – 8)

Fractions & Decimals (1-6)Real Numbers (7-8)

Money & Financial Maths (1-10)

Patterns & Algebra (F – 10)

Linear & non-linear Relationships (7 – 10)

As per Australian Curriculum v3.0

Measurement & Geometry

Using Units of Measurement ( F – 10)

Shape ( F - 7)

Geometric Reasoning (3 – 10)

Location & Transformation (F – 7)

Pythagoras & Trigonometry ( 9 -10)

As per Australian Curriculum v3.0

Statistics and Probability

Chance(1 – 10)

Data Representation & Interpretation

( F – 10)

As per Australian Curriculum v3.0

Proficiency Strands

Understanding FluencyProblem Solving

Reasoning

As per Australian Curriculum v3.0

UNDERSTANDING

Students build a robust knowledge of adaptable and

transferable mathematical concepts. They make

connections between related concepts and

progressively apply the familiar to develop new ideas.

They develop an understanding of the relationship

between the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of mathematics.

Students build understanding when they connect

related ideas, when they represent concepts in

different ways, when they identify commonalities and

differences between aspects of content, when they

describe their thinking mathematically and when they

interpret mathematical information

As per Australian Curriculum v3.0

FLUENCY

Students develop skills in choosing

appropriate procedures, carrying out

procedures flexibly, accurately, efficiently

and appropriately, and recalling factual

knowledge and concepts readily. Students are

fluent when they calculate answers efficiently,

when they recognise robust ways of

answering questions, when they choose

appropriate methods and approximations,

when they recall definitions and regularly use

facts, and when they can manipulate

expressions and equations to find solutions.

As per Australian Curriculum v3.0

Problem Solving

As per Australian Curriculum v3.0

Students develop the ability to make choices,

interpret, formulate, model and investigate

problem situations, and communicate solutions

effectively. Students formulate and solve

problems when they use mathematics to

represent unfamiliar or meaningful situations,

when they design investigations and plan their

approaches, when they apply their existing

strategies to seek solutions, and when they verify

that their answers are reasonable.

Reasoning

As per Australian Curriculum v3.0

Students develop an increasingly sophisticated

capacity for logical thought and actions, such as

analysing, proving, evaluating, explaining,

inferring, justifying and generalising. Students are

reasoning mathematically when they explain their

thinking, when they deduce and justify strategies

used and conclusions reached, when they adapt

the known to the unknown, when they transfer

learning from one context to another, when they

prove that something is true or false and when

they compare and contrast related ideas and

explain their choices.

Activity One : Implementation 101

- A smaller picture for beginners

An ACARA Walk-Thru

•Log on to the Australian

Curriculum website following

the detailed instructions.

•Learn about the Proficiency

Strands and develop a series of

lessons using ACARA and FSiM

materials.

Activity Two : Implementation 102

– The Big Picture for the braver souls

Planning Sheets - a week, a fortnight, a

term or a year……

• Choose a year level of interest

• Plan a series of lessons that

incorporates

1.Proficiency strands

2.Two or more Content

Descriptors

3.Cross-curriculum priorities

4.General Capabilities

5. Another curriculum area??

In Conclusion…..

•Where to from here?

•How will you embed AC into your school plan?

•What problems/ barriers do you anticipate?

•How might you plan to overcome these issues?

•What further resources/PL will you need to provide your staff?

Thank you for attending….hope you

found it useful.

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Huntingdale Primary School Teacher Development School 2012