Moving curriculum forward:
balancing national, state
and local interests
NSWAECG Annual Conference
Friday 15 March 2013
New K-10 syllabuses in
NSW
English
Mathematics
Science
History
Important dates:
2013 – teachers will familiarise
and plan
2014 – implementation schedule
starts
New NSW History Syllabus 7-10
Add screen
shot of
History & url
http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/hsie/history-k10/
New NSW History Syllabus 7-10
In Depth Study 4: Rights and Freedoms, Stage 5
students will:
•explain the purpose and significance of early twentiethcentury Aboriginal activism including the 1938 Day of
Mourning protest for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples
•outline the rights and freedoms denied to Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples before 1965 and the role
and policies of the Aboriginal Protection Board, eg the
control of wages and reserves.
New NSW History Syllabus 7-10
•
using a range of sources, describe the experiences of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were
forcibly removed from their families (Stolen Generations)
•
describe the effects of the assimilation policy for rights
and freedoms of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
New NSW History Syllabus 7-10
•Content in Stage 5 History includes:
-the 1962 right to vote federally;
-1967 Referendum;
-Reconciliation;
-Mabo decision;
-Bringing Them Home Report (the Stolen Generations); and
-the Apology and their significance for the civil rights of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
•Stage 5 students will examine
-the UN declaration of Human Rights; and
-Declaration and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the
'Rights and Freedoms' depth study.
The Review of Languages
Education Policy in NSW
• developing targeted programming support
materials for the K–10 Aboriginal Languages
syllabus. The materials will provide support to
Aboriginal community language teachers to
implement the syllabus in primary and secondary
schools throughout NSW
• establishing, together with the AECG, an online
compendium of Aboriginal Language
resources. The resources will be available on
terms determined by the AECG, in consultation
with communities and the Board
The Review of Languages
Education Policy in NSW
• allowing more than one Aboriginal language
to be taught during the mandatory 100
hours, as the location of some schools are on the
boundaries of Aboriginal groups and more than
one Aboriginal language is used
• developing a languages reclamation and
revitalisation module for delivery within the
HSC Aboriginal Studies course. This module
would teach languages reclamation and
revitalisation from a social science perspective
The Review of Languages
Education Policy in NSW
• developing a Stage 6 Syllabus Framework for
Aboriginal Languages. As a framework, the
syllabus could have national application and be
developed in collaboration and cooperation with
other jurisdictions (as occurs for some
community languages).
In strengthening and extending Aboriginal
languages education in NSW, Aboriginal
custodianship will be acknowledged.
Aboriginal English and
Teaching the School Curriculum
What is it?
Who speaks it?
Why do teachers
need to know
about it?
A Practical Guide to Teaching
Aboriginal Languages
• Suggestions for
teaching a
language in a
reclamation
context
• Digital footage
of effective
lessons
Moving curriculum forward:
balancing national, state
and local interests
NSWAECG Annual Conference
Friday 15 March 2013