Standards Publications
- Victorian Essential Learning Standards by Domain
- Victorian Essential Learning Standards by Domain in Word format
- Victorian Essential Learning Standards by Level
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Victorian Essential Learning Standards by Domain
These documents outline the sixteen learning domains in the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. The same information in these documents is available as the web pages in the P–10 Curriculum and Standards section of this website. Each publication includes:
- an introduction to the domain
- a description of the structure of the domain
- the learning focus statements and standards at each level in the relevant domain.
Civics and Citizenship (PDF - 123KB)
Communication (PDF - 222KB)
Design, Creativity and Technology (PDF - 247KB)
English (PDF - 255KB)
Health and Physical Education (PDF - 240KB)
The Humanities – Economics (PDF - 262KB)
The Humanities – Geography (PDF - 126KB)
The Humanities – History (PDF - 131KB)
Information and Communications Technology (PDF - 892KB)
Interpersonal Development (PDF - 115KB)
Languages Other Than English (LOTE) (PDF - 330KB)
Mathematics (PDF - 682KB)
Personal Learning (PDF - 227KB)
Science (PDF - 260KB)
The Arts (PDF - 249KB)
Thinking Processes (PDF - 224KB)
Victorian Essential Learning Standards by Domain in Word format
The Victorian Essential Learning Standards by domain are provided in Word format. Each file contains dimension descriptions and the standards by domain from Level 1 to 6 in tabular format to enable quick teacher reference. They do not include learning focus statements.
- Civics and Citizenship (Doc - 40KB)
- Communication (Doc - 38KB)
- Design, Creativity and Technology (Doc - 47KB)
- English (Doc - 51KB)
- Health and Physical Education (Doc - 42KB)
- The Humanities (Doc - 34KB)
- The Humanities – Economics (Doc - 37KB)
- The Humanities – Geography (Doc - 36KB)
- The Humanities – History (Doc - 40KB)
- Information and Communications Technology (Doc - 49KB)
- Interpersonal Development (Doc - 35KB)
- Languages Other Than English (LOTE) (Doc - 118KB)
- Mathematics (Doc - 118KB)
- Personal Learning (Doc - 40KB)
- Science (Doc - 49KB)
- The Arts (Doc - 41KB)
- Thinking Processes (Doc - 40KB)
Victorian Essential Learning Standards by Level
These documents outline the six levels in the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. The same information in these documents is available as web pages in the P–10 Curriculum and Standards and the Stages of Learning sections of this website. Each publication includes:
- the relevant stage of learning statement
- the relevant level statement
- introductions to each of the three strands
- introductions to each of the sixteen domains
- learning focus statements and standards for each domain.
Level 1 (PDF - 702KB)
Level 2 (PDF - 591KB)
Level 3 (PDF - 649KB)
Level 4 (PDF - 751KB)
Level 5 (PDF - 755KB)
Level 6 (PDF - 788KB)
