Civics and Citizenship Support
The Civics and Citizenship Domain
Introduction to Civics and Citizenship
Learning focus and standards Levels 1 2 3 4 5 6
The P-10 Curriculum and Standards section of this website introduces the Civics and Citizenship domain including information about its structure, the dimensions, the stages of learning, pathways to VCE, VCE VET and VCAL. It also includes the learning focus statements and standards applicable from Levels 1 to 6.
Teaching and Learning
Approaches to Civics and Citizenship
This advice is designed to support the learning and teaching of Civics and Citizenship. The advice offers a range of activities which provide teachers with examples that inform and elaborate the standards.
Assessment
Standards and Progression points
This resource supports teachers in making on-balance judgments about student achievement for use on reporting software.
Assessment maps (Annotated student work)
The assessment maps are a tool to help teachers assess student work using the VELS. They provide a range of annotated student work samples that can be used by teachers in conjunction with the progression point examples to develop a common understanding of the standards and make consistent, on-balance judgments about student achievement.
Background
Background to the VELS - Civics and Citizenship domain
This information focuses on the relationship between the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and the previous curriculum guidelines for Victorian schools, the Curriculum and Standards Framework (CSF) II.
Discussion paper: Civics and Citizenship Curriculum Area
Civics and Citizenship Curriculum Area (PDF - 130KB)
As part of the preliminary work for the development of the VELS, in 2004 the VCAA commissioned a paper designed to lead discussion on the essential elements of the Civics and Citizenship domain. The discussion paper provided theoretical and historical background for the development of the new standards, including:
- Why should Civics and Citizenship education be included as a cross-curriculum domain in a framework of essential learning?
- What are the key knowledge, skills and behaviours that students need to develop?
- What are learning dispositions of active citizens?
- How should the key knowledge, skills and behaviours be organised to enable the writing of standards?
- At what levels should the key knowledge, skills and behaviours be introduced?
- How will Civics and Citizenship education contribute to the overall development of students in the Early years, Middle years and Later years?
- Issues for consideration in developing performance standards
- References
- Appendix Table 1: Components of Civics and Citizenship
Other Resources
Prep to Year 10 Resources – Civics and Citizenship Domain
Civics and Citizenship domain (www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/civicscitizenship/default.htm)
This Department of Education web page contains links to Civics and Citizenship related learning and teaching support materials and professional learning support, and identifies current research in the area of Civics and Citizenship education.
Statements of Learning – Civics and Citizenship
MCEETYA Statements of Learning (www.mceetya.edu.au/mceetya/statements_of_learning,22835.html)
The Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) requested that National Statements of Learning be developed in English, Mathematics, Science, Information and communication technologies and Civics and citizenship. All states and territories have agreed to incorporate in their curriculum agreed Statements of Learning at Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 by 2008.
