General capabilities
General capabilities are a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum. They emcompass skills, behaviours and dispositions that students develop and apply to content knowledge and that support them in becoming successful learners, confident and creative individuals and active and informed citizens. Throughout their schooling students develop and use these capabilities in their learning across the curriculum, in co-curricular programs and in their lives outside school.
The Australian Curriculum includes seven general capabilities...
Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Personal and Social Competence, Ethical Behaviour, Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding
The General capabilities are represented within and across learning areas to different degrees. Some are best developed within specific learning areas and these are explicitly included in content descriptions, with additional detail provided in content elaborations where appropriate. Others can be developed in any learning area depending on teachers' choices of classroom activities.
General capabilities and the learning areas have a reciprocal relationship. Learning areas provide opportunities for students to develop and use capabilities. Similarly, wherever capabilites are made ecplicit in learning areas they can enrich and deepen learning.
Literacy, Numeracy, ICT and Critical and Creative thinking are essential tools for learning and are evident in the content of all four learning areas, English, Mathematics, Science and History. While the primary development of Literacy and Numeracy will reside in English and Mathematics respectively, the development of these capabilities across the curriculum is essential to effective teaching and learning.
Ethical Behaviour, Personal and Social Competence and Intercultural Understanding, which focus on ways of acting, behaving or learning to live with others, are more strongly represented in some learning areas than others. They are most evident wherever the personal and social dimensions of learning are highlighted.
The Australian Curriculum includes seven general capabilities...
Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Personal and Social Competence, Ethical Behaviour, Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding
The General capabilities are represented within and across learning areas to different degrees. Some are best developed within specific learning areas and these are explicitly included in content descriptions, with additional detail provided in content elaborations where appropriate. Others can be developed in any learning area depending on teachers' choices of classroom activities.
General capabilities and the learning areas have a reciprocal relationship. Learning areas provide opportunities for students to develop and use capabilities. Similarly, wherever capabilites are made ecplicit in learning areas they can enrich and deepen learning.
Literacy, Numeracy, ICT and Critical and Creative thinking are essential tools for learning and are evident in the content of all four learning areas, English, Mathematics, Science and History. While the primary development of Literacy and Numeracy will reside in English and Mathematics respectively, the development of these capabilities across the curriculum is essential to effective teaching and learning.
Ethical Behaviour, Personal and Social Competence and Intercultural Understanding, which focus on ways of acting, behaving or learning to live with others, are more strongly represented in some learning areas than others. They are most evident wherever the personal and social dimensions of learning are highlighted.
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