Accreditation period Units 1-4: 2025-2029
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.
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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
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Oral Presentation
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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
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Written responses (essay, report and/or responses to structured questions) |
Communication:
- Persuading effectively
- Sharing information
Initiative and enterprise:
Self-management:
- Having knowledge and confidence in own l vision and goals
- Articulating own ideas and visions
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