Victorian Curriculum 2.0
The Victorian Curriculum 2.0 sets out what students should learn during their schooling and is designed to prepare them for life in a rapidly changing world. This curriculum integrates essential knowledge, skills, and capabilities across a range of subject areas, ensuring students develop a strong foundation for lifelong learning.
Key Learning Areas – Our curriculum encompasses a broad range of learning areas, including:
- English: Developing literacy skills through reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Mathematics: Fostering numerical and problem-solving abilities.
- Science: Encouraging inquiry and understanding of the natural world.
- Humanities: Exploring history, geography, civics, and citizenship.
- The Arts: Promoting creativity through visual and performing arts.
- Health and Physical Education: Emphasising physical well-being and health education.
- Languages: Offering opportunities to learn additional languages.
- Technologies: Integrating digital technologies and design thinking.
Capabilities – In addition to these learning areas, the curriculum emphasises the development of four key capabilities:
- Critical and Creative Thinking: Enhancing problem-solving and innovative thinking.
- Ethical Understanding: Cultivating moral reasoning and integrity.
- Intercultural Understanding: Promoting appreciation of cultural diversity.
- Personal and Social Capability: Building resilience, empathy, and interpersonal skills.
Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0
The VTLM 2.0 emphasises evidence-based insights into how students learn, forming the foundation for effective teaching. It streamlines the previous model’s five components into two core elements:
- Elements of Learning: Focus on the human learning process, informed by cognitive science, neuroscience, and educational psychology.
- Elements of Teaching: Comprise evidence-based teaching practices that most effectively support learning: Planning, Enabling Learning, Explicit Teaching, and Supported Application.
The four Elements of Learning in the VTLM 2.0 are:
- Attention, Focus, and Regulation: Learning requires students’ active engagement and focused attention to transfer new information from working memory to long-term memory.
- Knowledge and Memory: Learning occurs when new knowledge moves from working memory to long-term memory, where it integrates with existing mental models.
- Retention and Recall: Introducing new information in manageable chunks and practicing retrieval strengthens long-term memory connections.
- Mastery and Application: Spaced, varied, and repeated practice consolidates learning, supporting the application of knowledge in new contexts.
The four Elements of Teaching in the VTLM 2.0 are:
- Planning: Developing structured lesson plans that align with learning objectives and cater to diverse student needs.
- Enabling Learning: Creating an environment that fosters student engagement, minimises distractions, and promotes a sense of belonging.
- Explicit Teaching: Providing clear, direct instruction, including focused learning, explicit explanation and modelling, scaffolded practice, and progress monitoring.
- Supported Application: Guiding students as they apply new knowledge and skills, offering feedback and opportunities for practice in varied contexts.
By integrating these elements, the VTLM 2.0 ensures a structured and effective approach to teaching and learning, enabling our educators to deliver content that is both accessible and challenging for all students.
High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS)
Our teachers use research-based strategies proven to enhance student learning, such as:
- Setting clear learning goals
- Providing explicit instruction
- Using questioning techniques to promote deeper thinking
- Encouraging collaborative learning
- Giving timely feedback to support student growth
At Dederang Primary School, this model ensures that every lesson is purposeful, engaging, and effective, helping students achieve their personal best.