Introduction

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Welcome!

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

This workshop is designed to familiarise you with the Arts Framework and courses and consider how the parameters of the framework and courses will affect the teaching and assessment of your Arts courses.

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

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

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The review of Frameworks and Courses

There is a BSSS cycle of review for all courses and frameworks.
Frameworks can be updated to reflect policy decisions made by the Board of Senior Secondary Studies, or if requests from teachers and schools are accepted by the Board.
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
The Arts is due for review again in 2030.

Context for Frameworks

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 build on the learning. Please review the ACARA F-10 V 9.0 courses in the Arts if you are unfamiliar with them to consider the knowledge and skills base with which students might arrive in your class in year eleven.
A key difference from ACARA that affects our courses, is that units in courses do not have to be delivered sequentially, unlike Australian Curriculum.
Frameworks provide a common reference point for cross-course moderation and task setting.

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What are the key features of the Framework?

Goals
Rationale
Achievement Standards
Task Type Table

What are the key features of a course?

rationale
unit specific goals
content descriptions
framework Achievement Standards and Task Type Table

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How do the parts go together?

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.

A Program of Learning will relate the Content Descriptions to the chosen area of study, such as a particular genre, school, media, or period, e.g. 'Analyse a movement'.. becomes 'Analyse cubism'

Activity: Introduction

How do ACT Senior secondary courses relate to the ACARA national curriculum?

Record a paragraph in response.

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