It seems that Science is the most challenging subject for curriculum officials to agree on as they endeavour to complete the national curriculum. We teachers have been waiting for a while to find out what the completed national curriculum looks like, but at the moment all we have available to us is a rough draft.
The chairman of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, Barry McGaw, said the curriculums for maths, English and history were ”essentially done and dusted” but more work lay ahead to achieve agreement on the science curriculum.
”Comparisons show Australia is in the top five countries in science by the time students are 15. But we’re in the bottom 10 to 20 out of nearly 60 nations in how much our kids like science, how important they think science is for their futures, and how important they think science is for the national future,” he said.
”So we’ve got students who are good at a subject but are not engaged with it and thus not likely to continue to engage with it.”
It sounds like ‘spin’ to me. I’ve heard that the draft science curriculum was panned for being too difficult for teachers to effectively implement. The national curriculum has been marred with bad publicity, and teachers are starting to get a bit edgy.
I just hope the final product is worth the wait.
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