Welcome.
Today we are going to take a virtual tour of the Assessment and Moderation Hub, and highlight some key
resources that schools can use to support how and when they provide the eight learning areas of the Australian
Curriculum. The Hub is a one stop shop.
It includes: information, templates and examples that assist schools to meet requirements of the P-12
curriculum, assessment and reporting framework and deliver the curriculum, systematically.
Firstly head to the Curriculum tab and select the ‘Understanding achievement standards’ from the drop
down menu. At the bottom of this page, under ‘Resources and links’, you will find sequence of achievement
documents for all learning areas.
These resources are used in many ways.
For example, they help you develop a deeper knowledge and understanding of the aspects of achievement
standards and how learning ‘steps up’ across the years.
Using them helps when you create or quality assure marking guides and they are invaluable when you are
planning for students who are accessing a different year-level curriculum, other
than that of their chronological age.
The Minimum requirements for providing the Australian Curriculum in Prep to Year 10 from 2021 describes how
to provide all learning areas so that there are real workload reductions.
How a school is going to deliver all learning areas is reflected in their whole school curriculum, assessment
and reporting plan which has three levels of planning: the Provision of whole curriculum plan; Year or Band
plans; and Unit plans.
Each level of planning provides the school with a greater degree of detail.
The Hub will help you monitor and review your three levels of planning, using an inquiry-based approach.
Select ‘Develop three levels of planning’ from the drop down menu to access these resources.
A copy of the Three levels of planning poster, is found at the bottom of the page
under the heading, Resources and links.
The poster will help you review and streamline your planning, it’s not a checklist.
Here you will find all of the planning templates.
These templates align with the Corporate Learning Areas and Subjects found in OneSchool.
And most importantly, they model the minimum requirements.
In Prep to Year 6, using the learning area achievement standards means that schools have more time to focus on
developing students’ understandings and skills.
The planning templates for year and
band plans model how to meet the
requirements for this level of planning.
These templates support workload reduction.
Using them, negates the need for overly complicated documentation.
The pedagogy tab is the one to watch.
Under this tab you’ll be able to access new resources for pedagogy, as they continue to be released.
The resources will support schools to take a whole school approach to pedagogy; and will model
evidence-based best practice about what is effective for the curriculum, the learning and the learner.
They will support you to monitor and
review your pedagogical approaches,
practices and teaching strategies.
The Assessment tab is the gateway to
building an assessment culture and
developing shared assessment literacy.
If you need help with designing or quality assuring marking guides or making standards-based judgments,
then this is where you will find tutorials, flow charts and recordings to help you and your colleagues.
We all know how important it is to make consistent and accurate judgments about student work, against the
relevant achievement standards.
The resources under the Moderation tab assist schools to develop a whole school approach to moderation.
If you are reviewing your whole school approach, you may like to select Develop whole school moderation
processes from the drop down menu.
This is where you will find all the ins and outs of what moderation ideally involves.
If everything is a priority, then nothing is.
You’ll notice that here moderation processes use data to determine the focus of moderation.
We can reduce work load by prioritising which learning areas and year levels need moderation.
The resources on the Moderation Hub are designed to support the middle layer or ‘engine room’ of the school
improvement hierarchy: systematic curriculum delivery; the development of expert teaching teams; and the use
of effective pedagogical practices.
The Hub helps us as we work, learn and improve together and ensure every student is succeeding.