MAPPING OF NATIONAL CURRICULUM GENERAL CAPABILITIES TO
THE CORE SKILLS FOR WORK DEVELOPMENTAL FRAMEWORK AND
THE AUSTRALIAN CORE SKILLS FRAMEWORK
This resource provides an example of how the Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework (CSfW) can be used as a theoretical underpinning from which
resources and tools can be developed. This resource should be read in conjunction with the CSfW.
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Australian National Curriculum General Capabilities
General
Capability
Organising Elements
Other relevant details
Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework
Skill Area or Influencing
Factors
Focus Areas or Influencing
Factors
Literacy
Predominantly two
domains :
Personal/ community;
education /training
Communicate for work
(Focused on application of
literacy skills in the work
domain only)
Numeracy
Predominantly two
domains:
personal/community,
education/training
Not directly addressed
ICT capability
Applying social and
ethical practices when
using ICT
Develop understanding of:
Benefits /consequences of ICT
Intellectual Property
Digital information security
Work in a digital world
Use digitally based
technologies and systems
Connect with others
Manage risk
Investigating with ICT
Define and plan information
searches
Locate and access data and
information
Use navigation tools
Organise data and information
using ICT tools
Work in a digital world
Access, organise and
present information
Plan and organise
Plan and implement tasks
Work in a digital world
Access, organise and
present information
Create and innovate
Recognise opportunities to
develop and apply new ideas
Generate ideas
Select ideas for
implementation
Creating with ICT
Use ICT to:
Generate ideas, plans, processes
and solutions;
Clarify task/steps required;
Generate products/solutions to
develop, refine, present new
understandings in digital form;
Respond to communication
systems, practices and
protocols
Speak and listen
Understand, interpret and
act
Get the message across
Australian Core Skills Framework
(2012 revised edition)
Core Skill
Focus Areas
Reading, Writing,
Oral communication
(Focused on three
domains :
personal /community;
education/ training; work)
Throughout
Numeracy
(Focused on three
domains:
personal/community;
education/training; work)
Throughout
Learning
Locating, evaluating
and organising
information
Planning & organising
References throughout 5
Core Skills and Sample
Activities
Create digital input or create a
process to transform digital data.
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Australian National Curriculum General Capabilities
General
Capability
ICT capability
(continued)
Organising Elements
Communicating
with ICT
Other relevant details
Exchange information through
digital communication
Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework
General Capability
Understand & apply social
protocols
Use ICT to investigate, create
and communicate
Use digital technologies
efficiently
General Capability
Connect with others
Access, organise and present
information
References throughout 5
Core Skills and Sample
Activities
Connect and work with
others
Cooperate and collaborate
Learning
Work in a digital world
Use digitally based
technologies and systems
Work in a digital world
Access, organise and present
information
Manage risk
References throughout 5
Core Skills and Sample
Activities
Communicate for work
Get the message across
Create and innovate
Recognise opportunities to
develop and apply new ideas
References throughout 5
Core Skills and Sample
Activities
Work in a digital world
Connect with others
Work in a digital world
Use digitally based
technologies and systems
Learning
Using prior knowledge
and scaffolding
Work in a digital world
Access, organise and present
information
Learning
Locating, evaluating
and organising
information
Apply techniques, strategies to
ensure security of digital
information, control access,
protect files, report abuse
Managing and operating
with ICT
Other relevant details
Work in a digital world
Share, exchange, collaborate to
enhance learning by sharing
information in digital forms
Collaborate and contribute to a
digital product
Organising Elements
Australian Core Skills Framework
(2012 revised edition)
Learning with and from
others
Select appropriate
combinations of digital
hardware/software to match
user needs and task
Understand transferability of
knowledge and skills between
systems and applications
Use software to manage and
maintain information in digital
files
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Australian National Curriculum General Capabilities
General
Capability
Critical and
creative
thinking
Organising Elements
Inquiring – identifying,
exploring & clarifying
information
Other relevant details
Identify, explore and clarify
questions and issues
Gather, organise and process
information
Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework
Skill Area or Influencing
Factors
Generating innovative
ideas and possibilities
Imagine possibilities and
consider alternatives
Focus Areas or Influencing
Factors
Identify and solve problems
Identify problems
Apply problem-solving
processes
Create and innovate
Recognise opportunities to
develop and apply new ideas
Plan and organise
Plan and implement tasks
Create and innovate
Recognise opportunities to
develop and apply new ideas
Transfer knowledge into new
contexts
Create and innovate
Recognise opportunities to
develop and apply new ideas
Generate ideas
Reflect on thinking
(metacognition)
Create and innovate
Select ideas for
implementation
Reflect on procedures and
products
Make decisions
Review impact
Identify and solve problems
Review outcomes
Apply logical and inventive
reasoning
Make decisions
Establish decision making
scope
Apply decision making
processes
Seek and create innovative
pathways and solutions
Australian Core Skills Framework
(2012 revised edition)
Core Skill
Focus Areas
Reading
Critical reading and text
analysis
Oral Communication
Audience and purpose
Comprehension
Reading
Prediction and prior
knowledge
Text navigation
Learning
Planning & organising
Locating, evaluating &
organising information
Using prior knowledge
and scaffolding
Learning
Learner identity
Suspend judgment to visualise
possibilities
Reflecting on thinking,
actions and processes
Analysing, synthesising &
evaluating information
Draw conclusions and design a
course of action
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Plan and organise
Plan and implement tasks
Identify and solve problems
Apply problem solving
processes
Create and innovate
Select ideas for
implementation
Planning and organising
Reading
Critical reading and text
analysis
Writing
Structure and cohesion
Numeracy
Explicitness and
complexity of
mathematical
information
Written and oral
mathematical language
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Australian National Curriculum General Capabilities
General
Capability
Personal and
social
capability
Organising Elements
Self awareness
Other relevant details
Recognition of emotions
Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework
Skill Area or Influencing
Factors
Australian Core Skills Framework
(2012 revised edition)
Focus Areas or Influencing
Factors
Understand self
Self knowledge
Connect and work with
others
Self perception
Influencing factors
Self-belief and resilience
Connect and work with
others
Understand self
Communicate for work
Understand, interpret and act
Identify and solve problems
Make decisions
Review outcomes
Review impact
Work with roles, rights and
protocols
Recognise and respond to
protocols
Connect and work with
others
Understand self
Connect and work with
others
Understand self
Influencing factors
Self-belief and resilience
Work with roles, rights and
protocols
Work with roles and
responsibilities
Identify and solve problems
Identify problems
Make decisions
Establish decision making
scope
Core Skill
Focus Areas
Learning
Learner identity
Learning
Learner identity
Learning with and from
others
Oral communication
Audience and purpose
Register
Learning
Learner identity
Self-worth
Reflective practice
Self-management
Appropriate expression of
emotions
Self-discipline, confidence,
resilience and adaptability
Work independently and show
initiative
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Degree of support required
is a Performance Variable
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Australian National Curriculum General Capabilities
General
Capability
Personal and
social
capability
(continued)
Organising Elements
Social awareness
Other relevant details
Empathy
Understand relationships
Appreciate diverse
perspectives
Social management
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Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework
Skill Area or Influencing
Factors
Australian Core Skills Framework
(2012 revised edition)
Focus Areas or Influencing
Factors
Connect and work with
others
Understand self
Build rapport
Cooperate and collaborate
Recognise and utilise diverse
perspectives
Recognise different
perspectives
Respond to and utilise
diverse perspectives
Recognise and utilise diverse
perspectives
Recognise different
perspectives
Respond to and utilise
diverse perspectives
Core Skill
Focus Areas
Learning
Learning with and from
others
Reading
Critical reading and text
analysis
Oral Communication
Range and context
Audience and purpose
Using Core skills in Personal
and Community domain
Sample activities
Contribute to civil society,
advocacy and service to others
Not directly addressed
Communication
Communicate for work
Respond to communication
systems, practices and
protocols
Speak and listen
Understand, interpret and act
Get the message across
All 5 Core Skills
Throughout
Work collaboratively
Build and maintain
relationships
Connect and work with
others
Build rapport
Cooperate and collaborate
Learning
Learning with and from
others
Leadership
Connect and work with
others
Cooperate and collaborate
Conflict resolution and
negotiation
Recognise and utilise diverse
perspectives
Manage conflict
Oral communication
Range and context
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Australian National Curriculum General Capabilities
General
Capability
Ethical
behaviour
Organising Elements
Skill Area or Influencing
Factors
Identify, clarify and explore
ethical concepts
Work with roles, rights and
protocols
Operate within legal rights
and responsibilities
Reflecting on personal
ethics in experiences and
decision making
Reflect on character traits such
as honesty, integrity
Work with roles, rights and
protocols
Recognise and respond to
protocols
Explore role of feelings,
conscience and self interest
Recognise and utilise diverse
perspectives
Recognise different
perspectives
Reflect on ethical concerns and
dilemmas
Connect and work with
others
Understand self
Make decisions
Review impact
Explore values, beliefs,
principles used in making
ethical judgements, acting
responsibly and with integrity
Work with roles, rights and
protocols
Operate within legal rights
and responsibilities
Recognise and utilise diverse
perspectives
Recognise different
perspectives
Identify and explain own
cultural beliefs, practices,
values traditions
Connect and work with
others
Recognising
Australian Core Skills Framework
(2012 revised edition)
Focus Areas or Influencing
Factors
Understanding ethical
concepts and issues
Exploring values, rights and
ethical principles
Intercultural
understanding
Other relevant details
Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework
Core Skill
Focus Areas
Learning
Learner identity
Reading
Critical reading and text
analysis
Understand self
Reading
Critical reading and text
analysis
Recognise and utilise diverse
perspectives
Recognise different
perspectives
Respond to and utilise
diverse perspectives
Learning
Learning with and from
others
Influencing Factors
Cultural and value-based
factors
Influencing Factors
Cultural and value-based
factors
Learning
Learning with and from
others
Connect and work with
others
Build rapport
Cooperate and collaborate
Reading
Recognise multiple views
Critical reading & text
analysis
Act positively in unfamiliar
contexts
Recognise and utilise diverse
perspectives
Recognise different
perspectives
Respond to and utilise
diverse perspectives
Recognise culture is dynamic
and complex and varies across
groups
Compare own and others’
experiences
Recognise people have many
ways of knowing and being
Interacting
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View aspects of own language
and culture from other cultural
perspectives
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Australian National Curriculum General Capabilities
General
Capability
Intercultural
understanding
(continued)
Organising Elements
Reflecting
Other relevant details
Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework
Skill Area or Influencing
Factors
Empathy
Connect and work with
others
Consider how affected by
intercultural thoughts, feelings
and actions
Understand self
Build rapport
Cooperate and collaborate
Recognise and utilise diverse
perspectives
Recognise how own actions,
mediated by culture, have
affected others
Recognise different
perspectives
Respond to and utilise
diverse perspectives
Influencing Factors
Cultural and value-based
factors
Self-belief and resilience
Imagine what own feelings and
responses would be in
situations of others
Connect and work with
others
Understand self
Build rapport
Cooperate and collaborate
Seek to understand how others
might feel
Influencing Factors
Cultural and value-based
factors
Self-belief and resilience
Demonstrate respect for self
and others
Connect and work with
others
Understand self
Build rapport
Understand and acknowledge
value of distinctive cultures
within nations
Recognise and utilise diverse
perspectives
Recognise different
perspectives
Respond to and utilise
diverse perspectives
Influencing Factors
Cultural and value-based
factors
Consider impact of own
behaviour on others
Respect
Understand that ways of
demonstrating respect vary
between cultural groups
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Focus Areas or Influencing
Factors
Think critically to see own
viewpoint as one of many
Recognise influence of
increased intercultural
interaction on own personal
identity and nature of
communities
Australian Core Skills Framework
(2012 revised edition)
Core Skill
Focus Areas
Learning
Learning with and from
others
Reading
Critical reading & text
analysis
Learning
Learning with and from
others
Reading
Critical reading & text
analysis
Learning
Learning with and from
others
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Australian National Curriculum General Capabilities
General
Capability
Organising Elements
Responsibility
Other relevant details
Skill Area or Influencing
Factors
Australian Core Skills Framework
(2012 revised edition)
Focus Areas or Influencing
Factors
Demonstrate commitment to
reconciliation
Recognise and utilise diverse
perspectives
Take responsibility for own
understanding of, and
behaviour towards, different
cultural groups
Recognise different
perspectives
Respond to and utilise
diverse perspectives
Manage conflict
Influencing Factors
Cultural and value-based
factors
Understand reciprocal roles
and shared responsibilities as
local and global citizens
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Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework
Core Skill
Learning
Focus Areas
Learning with and from
others
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