Planning

Accreditation period Units 1-4 from 2025

Introduction

The VCE Drama Study Design 2025 Support materials provide teaching and learning advice for Units 1 to 4 and assessment advice for school-based assessment in Units 3 and 4. The program developed and delivered to students must be in accordance with the VCE Drama Study Design 2025.

Developing a program

The VCE Drama Study Design 2025 outlines the nature and sequence of learning and teaching necessary for students to demonstrate achievement of the outcomes for a unit. The areas of study describe the specific knowledge and skills required to demonstrate a specific outcome. Teachers are required to develop a program for their students that meet the requirements of the study design including: areas of study, outcome statements, key knowledge and key skills.

What are Employability skills?

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and the Business Council of Australia (BCA) completed a major exercise to discover what employers really look for in workers to meet their current and future skills needs. All businesses identified the importance of communication, teamwork, problem solving, planning and organising, technology, learning, self-management, initiative and enterprise skills.

Employability skills

The VCE Drama study provides students with the opportunity to engage in a range of learning activities. In addition to demonstrating their understanding and mastery of the content and skills specific to the study, students may also develop employability skills through their learning activities.

The nationally agreed employability skills* are: Communication; Planning and organising; Teamwork; Problem solving; Self-management; Initiative and enterprise; Technology; and Learning.

The table links those facets that may be understood and applied in a school or non-employment related setting, to the types of assessment commonly undertaken within the VCE study.
 

Assessment taskEmployability skills selected facets
Performance Development

Communication:

  • Listening and understanding
  • Speaking clearly and directly
  • Negotiating responsively
  • Reading independently
  • Empathising
  • Persuading effectively
  • Establishing and using networks
  • Being assertive
  • Sharing information
     


 

Teamwork:

  • Working with people of different ages genders, races, religions or political persuasions
  • Working as an individual and as a member of a team
  • Knowing how to define a role as part of the team
  • Applying team work to a range of situations e.g. futures planning, crisis problem solving
  • Identifying the strengths of the members
  • Coaching, mentoring and giving feedback


 

Problem Solving:

  • Developing practical solutions
  • Showing independence and initiative in identifying problems and solving them
  • Solving problems in teams


 

Initiative and enterprise:

  • Adapting to new situations
  • Being creative
  • Identifying opportunities not obvious to others
  • Translating ideas into action
  • Generating a range of options


 

Planning and organising:

  • Managing time and priorities-Being resourceful
  • Adapting resource allocations to cope with contingencies
     
  • Allocating people and other resources to tasks
  • Planning the use of resources including time management
  • Participates in continuous improvement and planning processes
  • Developing a vision and a proactive plan to accompany it
  • Collecting, analysing and organising information


 

Self-management:
 

  • Having a personal vision and goals
  • Evaluating and monitoring own performance
     
  • Having knowledge and confidence in own ideas and visions
  • Articulating own ideas and visions
  • Taking responsibility


 

Learning:
 

  • Applying learning to technical issues and operations (e.g. learning about products) and 'people' issues (e.g. interpersonal and cultural aspects of work)
  • Being open to new ideas and change


 

Technology: 
 

  • Having a range of basic IT skills
  • Applying IT as a management tool
  • Using IT to organise data


 

Oral Presentation
 

Communication:

  • Listening and understanding
  • Sharing information
  • Persuading effectively


 

Self-management:

  • Having knowledge and confidence in own l vision and goals
  • Evaluating and monitoring own performance
  • Articulating own ideas and visions
     


 

Planning and organising:

  • Collecting, analysing and organising information


 

Written responses (essay, report and/or responses to structured questions)

Communication:

  • Persuading effectively
  • Sharing information


 

Initiative and enterprise:

  • Being creative


 

Self-management:

  • Having knowledge and confidence in own l vision and goals 
     
  • Articulating own ideas and visions
     

Implementation videos

VCE Drama (2025) implementation videos
Online video presentations to support the delivery of the new VCE Drama Study Design.

Playlist

Playlist for use in 2025 (DOCX, 228.13 KB)


2025 Playlist for VCE Drama and Theatre Studies (Updated April 2025).

Criteria and guidelines for the 2025 Playlist
This VCE Drama Playlist is for use from 2025 (Updated April 2024).