HASS F-6 Content mapped to Achievement Standard Australian Curriculum 9.0

‘Begin with the end in mind’ is one of Stephen Covey’s habits of highly effective people. Many teachers practise this wisdom of beginning with the end in mind as they use the backward design planning model.

Effective teachers think about the end goal and the desired results of the student before anything else.

The Australian Curriculum expresses the end goal in their Achievement Standards. Many schools also have an ‘attributes of our school’ type document, which defines the particular end goals that the school wants to impart to the student during their learning journey.

Once the end goals are established, teachers then clarify what evidence of learning would be necessary for the student to demonstrate they have achieved the goal.

Then teachers get to play, dream, discuss, caffeinate, write and re-write as they plan the teaching and learning activities to take their students on the journey to the end goal.

Effective teachers know that a direct link between what is taught, learned, tested and reported is critical.

Version 9.0 of the Australian Curriculum has a much clearer link (than V8.4) between Content Descriptors and the Achievement Standard.

How to use this document (at least how I imagine it may be helpful)

1. look at the End of Year Achievement Standard Statement column to determine the ‘end goal’
2. develop an assessment task allowing students to demonstrate they have achieved
3. look at the Content Descriptor column to see what should be taught to get students to the endpoint.

Note:

• The wording between Content Descriptor and Achievement Standard is not the same. Spend time looking at where the wording is different. Remember you will be reporting on the End of Year Achievement Standard StatementThe Achievement Standard is written in two paragraphs. The first paragraph draws from the Knowledge and Understanding strand, the second paragraph draws from the Inquiry and Skills strand.

Printing:

• To fit the content into the best format, the font size has been reduced. Either:
• Use this document on the screen and set zoom at 140% (this has the advantage of using the find function to search for key words, or
• Print out and enlarge A4 → A3