Back to VCAA Bulletin No. 51 - August 2019
New resource to support teachers implementing the Victorian Curriculum F–10
The VCAA continues to develop and provide teachers with resources to support the implementation of the Victorian Curriculum. The following resource is now available:
- Home Economics sample units of work – Food-labelling practices (Levels 7 and 8) and Influences on food choices (Levels 9 and 10).
To find out when new resources become available, visit the
Victorian Curriculum F–10 section of the VCAA website, read the
VCAA Bulletin or sign up for the F–10 Curriculum Update.
For previously published resources, search the
Curriculum Area Advice webpage.
Register now for webinars
The 2019 Professional Learning Program has been designed to support teachers in implementing the Victorian Curriculum F–10. Delivered through a series of webinars, the program covers a range of curriculum areas and topics, including:
- Science: Using picture stories to distinguish scientific fact from fiction (F–8), Thursday 15 August 2019
- Introducing the new EAL curriculum (F–10), Tuesday 20 August 2019
- Mathematics: Differentiating the Mathematics curriculum (F–6), Wednesday 21 August 2019
- Critical and Creative Thinking: Focus on metacognition (F–6), Thursday 22 August 2019
- Health and Physical Education: Who is teaching Health in your school? Strategies for delivering a comprehensive Health education program (F–6), Thursday 29 August 2019
- Health and Physical Education: Assessment in Health and Physical Education (F–6), Thursday 5 September 2019
- Science: Deepening students understanding of the science curriculum through meaningful and authentic direct experiences (F–10), Thursday 12 September 2019.
The above webinars will run between 3.45–4.45pm. To register, go to the
2019 Professional Learning Program webpage and, under the curriculum area, select the session you wish to attend.
Using online language assessment resources to assess language learners in your classroom
To support Language teachers implementing the Victorian Curriculum, the VCAA continues to offer free, online language assessments in eight languages. These online assessments have been developed with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), and offer language assessments in Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek and Spanish.
The online language assessments are:
- a free resource schools may choose to use to support their teaching of Languages, from levels 5–6 onward
- a useful diagnostic tool of student progress in listening and reading
- an online bank of test items that are available at any time
- capable of providing results immediately.
Results are only for teacher use.
For more information and to register and access the language assessments directly, go to the
VCAA Language Assessment webpage on the ACER website.
Introducing the draft English as an Additional Language curriculum
The VCAA has released a draft of the F–10
English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum and supporting resources for familiarisation, feedback and optional implementation. The new curriculum has been written to reflect the different English language starting points of EAL students and is intended to be used by all teachers with EAL students in their classrooms.
To assist teachers to become familiar with the new curriculum, the VCAA is continuing a series of introductory sessions with support from VicTESOL, and EAL staff from the Department of Education and Training and Catholic education offices. These sessions will be based on the sessions run in May and June this year. Details for these sessions are as follows:
- introductory webinar – 3.45–4.45pm Tuesday 20 August 2019
- face-to-face presentation – 4.30–6pm Tuesday 27 August 2019, Gorman Room, 50 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.
Register via the
EAL Professional Learning webpage. Places for the face-to-face presentation are limited to the first 60 registrations.
Teachers are reminded to provide feedback on the draft curriculum by Thursday 29 August 2019.
For further information, contact Kellie Heintz, EAL Curriculum Manager:
heintz.kellie.a@edumail.vic.gov.au or (03) 9603 7953.