Victorian Essential Learning Standards

Strand:	Physical Personal and Social Learning
Domain:	Interpersonal Development
Dimension:	Working and Learning in teams
Syllabus link:	http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/personal/development/index.html*

Students accept responsibility as part of a team by:

• Encouraging and supporting others
• Working co-operatively to achieve a shared purpose
• Sharing the responsibilities
• Working collaboratively to allocate tasks and develop timelines
• Providing feedback to others and valuing their input
• Reflect on their contributions and group outcomes
• Use feedback for their own improvement

Strand:	Physical Personal and Social Learning
Domain:	Civics and Citizenship
Dimension:	Civic Knowledge and Understanding
Syllabus link:	http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/personal/civics/index.html*

• Students explore key events which contributed to the development of the Australian nation
• They can sequence and describe contributions of events in the course of Australia’s democratic history.
• They begin to understand the contribution made by various people through the years to many aspects of the Australian way of life.

Strand:	Discipline based Learning
Domain:	Humanities
Dimension:	Historical Knowledge and Understanding
Syllabus link:	http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/discipline/humanities/history/index.html*

• Students demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of Australian History
• Use a range of resources to investigate the past
• They present their understandings in a variety of formats

Strand:	Discipline based Learning
Domain:	English
Dimension:	Writing, Speaking and listening
Syllabus link:	http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/discipline/english/index.html*

• Students produce in print and electronic forms, a variety of texts for different purposes using structures and language appropriate to the purpose, audience and context of the writing.
• Plan, rehearse and make presentations for different purposes, adjusting their speaking as appropriate to the task.

Strand:	Discipline based Learning
Domain:	The Arts
Dimension:	Creating and Making
Syllabus link:	http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/discipline/arts/index.html*

• Students communicate their ideas and understandings about themselves and others, incorporating influences from their own and other cultures and times.

Strand:	Interdisciplinary Learning
Domain:	Communication
Dimension:	Presenting
Syllabus link:	http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/interdisciplinary/communication/index.html*

• Students organise and summarise ideas and information logically and clearly in a range of presentations.
• Identify features of an effective presentation and adapt elements of their own presentation to reflect them.

Strand:	Interdisciplinary Learning
Domain:	Thinking
Dimension:	Reasoning, Processing and Inquiry
Syllabus link:	http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/interdisciplinary/thinking/index.html*

• Students increasingly consider texts and information that lie beyond their immediate experience
• Develop their skills in making accurate observations about people and events and record these in a variety of formats.
• Provide their own explanations for these observations.
• Develop their own questions for investigation.
• Collect relevant information from a range of sources and make judgement about its worth.
• Order and sequence their own ideas.
• Given criteria - children compare and contrast classification of concepts, objects and ideas.
• Describe, compare and contrast these classifications.

Strand:	Interdisciplinary Learning
Domain:	Thinking
Dimension:	Reflection, Evaluation and Meta-cognition
Syllabus link:	http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/interdisciplinary/thinking/index.html*

• Use a variety of thinking skills and processes and tools and evaluate their effectiveness
• Reflect on their thinking