Welcome to the Introduction to the ACT BSSS Commerce Framework  Workshop.

This workshop is designed to familiarise you with the Commerce Framework  and courses and consider how to implement the Framework and course requirements in your teaching and assessment

If you complete the activities to a satisfactory standard and submit them, then you will be entitled to claim  completion and TQI hours. 

Here is a link to the Commerce Framework 2017

Here is a link to the new Commerce Framework for 2023. 

The Course documents may be found here.

Accounting A/T/M

Business A/T/M

Economics A/T/M

Tourism and Event Management A/T/M/V (From 2022)

The new Courses for 2023 may be found here

Prepare a document with your answers to the questions and when the training is completed, send the document to murray.chisholm@act.gov.au

• There is an ongoing cycle of review in all course areas and Frameworks. 

• Courses and Frameworks needed to be updated to align with Board endorsed policies, student needs and recent research. 

• The Review of BSSS Senior Secondary Curriculum (2015) recommended that frameworks reflect coherence and consistency in design, format and quality.

• The Shape of the ACT Senior Secondary Curriculum (2016) provides guidelines and design specifications, based on ACARA course design, and relevant to ACT context.

• Australian Curriculum courses (P-10) and Senior Secondary courses were adopted by the ACT government for use in ACT schools.

• BSS Senior Secondary courses  are aligned with Australian Curriculum courses P-10, and builds on the learning.

• Commerce Courses build on the National P-10 Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum. 

• A key difference from ACARA that affects our courses, is that units in courses do not have to be delivered sequentially, unlike the Australian Curriculum.

• rationale

• unit specific goals

• content descriptions

• framework Achievement Standards and Task Type Table

Teachers will consider the integration of the different parts of the curriculum in developing a Program of Learning that will engage students in learning in their context. Teachers will choose how to implement the broad goals of the courses in the classroom.