Back to VCAA Bulletin No. 53 - October 2019
Online language assessments
The VCAA continues to offer a suite of free, online language assessments in Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek and Spanish. Teachers can use these language assessments to quickly and accurately test students' additional language reading and listening skills, while collecting valid diagnostic information they can use to better target individual students' areas of need.
Developed with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), teachers can register and access the language assessments directly through the VCAA Language Assessment webpage on the ACER website.
Redevelopment of the Bushfire Education website
The VCAA has been redeveloping and updating teaching resources on the Bushfire Education website, with the new resources to be uploaded by mid-October 2019. These resources are structured around the four themes of 'Learning about bushfires', 'Preparing for bushfires', 'Responding to bushfires' and 'Recovering from bushfires'. Each theme is explored through a series of sequenced lesson plans suitable for primary and secondary schools up to Year 8. All lesson plans have specific learning intentions that link to the relevant curriculum area content descriptions, and include suggestions of additional quality resources that teachers can access.
For more information, go to the Bushfire Education website or contact the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Unit: vcaa.f10.curriculum@edumail.vic.gov.au.
Download new Digital Technologies posters
These two downloadable resources illustrate the difference between Digital Technologies in the Victorian Curriculum F–10 and ICT, providing visual representations and examples of the components of the Digital Technologies curriculum and elements of ICT.
Teachers and schools are encouraged to download, print and display the A3 posters.
Access world views and religions resources
The Victorian Curriculum F–10 includes multiple opportunities for students to learn about world views and religions. This enables students to be more engaged at both a local and global level, understanding the perspectives of diverse local communities and being better informed about the beliefs and practices of traditions other than their own.
To support this learning, the VCAA has produced four sample units of work for Years 3–10. Each sample unit of work is linked to a different curriculum area: Civics and Citizenship, Geography, History and Intercultural Capability.
Find more curriculum implementation resources
The VCAA continues to develop and provide teachers with resources to support the implementation of the Victorian Curriculum F–10. New resources recently published include:
To find out when new resources become available, read the VCAA Bulletin or sign up for the F–10 Curriculum Update.