Announcement – National Curriculum September 2009

ACARA welcomes inaugural Chief Executive Officer The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) today welcomed Dr Peter Hill as the authority’s first Chief Executive Officer.  The full press release is available under ‘Latest News’ on the ACARA website – www.acara.edu.au

HTAA August 2009 Update

August 2009 ACARA has recently posted its Senior Secondary Years Curriculum Position Paper and is inviting feedback till September 30th 2009. For more details, please visit www.acara.edu.au/

HTAA June 2009 Update

June 2009 The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has commenced its work. It replaces the National Curriculum Board (NCB) The ACARA website is now live: www.acara.edu.au The new board is listed and a number of new documents have been posted, including a Curriculum Design Paper that sets out hours for history courses.National Curriculum …

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HTAA May 2009 Update

National Curriculum Update – May 2009 The following documents have just been posted on the National Curriculum Board’s website: ‘The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: History’ (revised framing paper) (Link updated 10.09.2015, The Editor) ‘The Shape of the Australian Curriculum (Link updated 10.09.2015, The Editor) For more information please go to: ACARA website

HTAA March 2009 Update

National Curriculum Update – March 2009 The period for consultation on the National Curriculum Board’s (NCB) History Framing Paper concluded at the end of February 2009. At the time of writing the responses to the Framing Paper are being processed and it is expected that a brief for curriculum writing teams will be prepared for …

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Announcement – National Curriculum March 2009

The National Curriculum Board is now seeking expressions of interest for curriculum writers and advisory panel members. The closing date is 13 March 2009. Refer to the NCB’s website: http://www.acara.edu.au/about_us/register_of_interest.html (Link updated 10.09.2015, The Editor)

HTAA February 2009 Update

  HTAA RESPONSE TO THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM BOARD’S HISTORY FRAMING PAPER, 11 February 2009   1. INTRODUCTION   This History Teachers’ Association of Australia (HTAA) is the peak body representing the History Teachers’ Associations of the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. This response to the National …

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HTAA January 2009 Update

HTAA Statement – National Curriculum & Teacher Pre-Service Training The National Curriculum Board recently released its History Curriculum Framing Paper and will soon begin the process of syllabus writing for new national curriculum courses in history. The History Teachers’ Association of Australia (HTAA) has been an enthusiastic supporter of the initiative to develop a national …

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HTAA September Update

Last week The Australian contributed to the national curriculum discussion with a suggestion that Professor Stuart Macintyre’s appointment to oversee the writing of the history framework paper was ill-advised. A headline spoke of a reigniting of the history wars. An editorial concluded that ‘the appointments [of Macintyre (history) and Freebody (English)] reflect poorly on the …

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National Curriculum – July Update

About the recent activity on the national curriculum front. Bby early 2009 the development of national courses in history will become an increasing focus of attention for all of those concerned with the future of our discipline. This update has been divided into two sections, a report and a discussion.