Guidelines & Advice

• Curriculum Planning
• Principles of Learning and Teaching (PoLT) P-12
• Student Learning (DEECD)
  
• Assessment (DEECD)
  
• Generic skills and competencies
  
• Student health (PDF - 518Kb)
• Use of mobile phones by students (PDF - 41Kb)
• Student attendance (PDF - 196Kb)
• Student Reports
  
• Student Reports - Sample Report Cards
  
• Duty of Care
  

National Policies

The Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-first Century: Preamble and Goals

Still current today – although established in 1999 – these national goals underpin education in all states and territories in Australia.

Australian Policy Online (APO)

A handy portal to Australian policies.  Easily searchable index by categories such as Disability, Gender and sexuality and Youth.

Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA)

This council is made up of state and territory and national ministers for education – and others – and is responsible for developing national policies.  Has a great index to reports such as those relating to teachers and teaching, ICT, and the National Assessment Program (NAP)

National Report on Schooling in Australia

From this MCEETYA site you can access all national reports on schooling from 2000.

School Education (Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations)

From here you can access national policies relating to Early Childhood Education, School Education and Indigenous Education among others. 

Victorian State Policies

Blueprint for Education and Early Childhood Development

This is Victoria’s education policy that sets out the vision for schooling over the next five years.  A key part of the Blueprint is the Victorian Essential Learning Standards framework.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/ 

This is ‘The Education Department’ portal.  From here you can access quick links to things such as ‘Key Dates’ that house dates such as school terms and ‘Popular Links’ to sites about Jobs in Victorian Government Schools.  The portal has 4 main areas including School Professionals.  From here you can access curriculum resources – housed on Educational channel – including Assessment, PoLT, and curriculum frameworks such as VCAL, VET in schools, and VCE.  A must for all teachers.

Key documents, policies and research (DEECD)

This site is within the DEECD website and provides links to some key reports and research such as The blueprint

Conducting research in Victorian government schools

Gives information about what you need to do in order to conduct research in schools and provides links to relevant documents that you need to complete.