Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet makes comprehensive, up-to-date information accessible to people interested in the health of Indigenous Australians.
Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY)
Presents up to date research and policy development in the field of child, adolescent and family development.
Part of the Centre for Analysis of Educational Futures at Flinders University, KidsMatter aims to strengthen the mental health and wellbeing of children, reduce mental health problems among children, and achieve greater support for children experiencing mental health difficulties, and their families.
Society for Research in Child Development – Child Development journal
The website of the Society for Research in Child Development provides information about this excellent journal.
Democracy in schools
Skwirk Interactive Schooling: Democracy in schools
Democratic classrooms
Education World: Class meetings: A democratic approach to classroom management
Discusses how to conduct democratic class meetings.
The National Safe Schools Framework
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
A teacher discusses how he has moved from an authoritarian to a democratic teaching model.
Australian state and territory curricula
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Education Action Plan 2010–2014
Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented Ltd (AAEGT)
Australian Association for Special Education Inc. (AASE)
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect)
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
Includes ideas, examples and resources for incorporating technology into curriculum to facilitate access for a wide range of learners, guided by the 'Universal Design for Learning' (UDL) framework.
This website – based on the work of Carol Tomlinson and colleagues – was developed at the University of Virginia (USA). It is a good source of articles, examples and ideas regarding differentiation across a range of year levels and subject areas.
Paula Kluth's blog includes many practical ideas and suggested resources related to differentiation across curriculum areas.
Disability Standards for Education 2005
'The Standards clarify the obligations of education and training providers to ensure that students with disabilities are able to access and participate in education and training on the same basis as those without disability' under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DEEWR).
Learning Difficulties Australia
Information, resources and links to state associations.
Information and tips for teachers and parents.
Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians Mindset
More about Carol Dweck's work on mindsets.
Students with Disabilities in Mainstream Classrooms. A Resource for Teachers.
This Australian resource provides background information and practical ideas related to working effectively with students with disabilities in inclusive general classrooms.
The UNESCO Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
This website allows users to upload videos. Videos can be embedded in blog tools.
This site lists a variety of tools and links described by different areas of learning.
A site to create and host posters online.
News media unit of work and activities linked to the Australian English curriculum.
National Digital Learning Resources Network (NDLRN)
Australian repository of digital learning resources for all stages of schooling.
An online presentation editor.
Website for stop-motion animation examples and teaching resources.
Examples of, and instructions for creating web-based inquiry activities.
A free wiki hosting website.
Australian Curriculum: English
Australian Curriculum: Literacy: Organising elements
Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA)
Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation
International Reading Association
Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA)
United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA)
Australian Curriculum: Mathematics Illuminations: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (USA)
Contains lesson plans, teaching ideas, assessment ideas and other resources for mathematics curriculum topics.
Contains free online resource material, in the form of interactive multimedia resources, that support learning of concepts and skills in a range of curriculum areas in the P–12 years), including video clips, audio clips and assessment resources.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) (USA)
A National Science Federation (NSF) supported project. As stated on the home page of this website, NVLM is a virtual library of 'uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K–12 emphasis)'.
Queensland Studies Authority (QSA)
Rubrics
The following websites enable you to create your own rubrics.
Australian Academy of Science: Primary Connections
Australian Curriculum: Science
BBC Schools: Grouping and changing materials
Resources for teachers – science ages 6–7.
Games, activities, quizzes, experiments and videos/media associated with specific a topic.
Includes topics such as sound, collision, Sun, Earth, moon, atoms, speed and acceleration. All the topics include animations that will particularly assist visual learners.
Fear of Physics: An introduction to what sound is
What is sound? A great website explaining what sound is though the use of animation. This site also contains some quiz under the homework help section
Allows students to create weather conditions by moving temperature and humidity bars.
The Museum Network: Material World
An interactive site explaining how light and colour and laptops works in TV screens. Probably better suited to upper primary or lower secondary levels.
Take a closer look at the different states of matter with a virtual microscope. You can actually see the molecules and differences between a solid, liquid and gas.
A program that challenges students and educators at all levels to develop educational websites. There is a huge library of interactive sites built by kids for kids.
Allows you to change the size of a tornado and then predict what type of damage it may cause.
Video The Magic School Bus: Water Cycle
ACARA: Cross-curriculum priorities
Australian Electoral Commission
This site provides information about electorates throughout Australia
Australian Electoral Commission (AEC): Education services
Australian Geography Teachers Association (AGTA)
Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative (AuSSI)
Particularly useful for the Civics and Citizenship domain. A wide range of teacher notes, key terms and downloads about democracy for both primary and secondary teachers.
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA): Civic Education Study
Information on a variety of legal topics, such as legal careers, as well as information about a human rights charter in Victoria.
National Centre for History Education (NCHE)
Parliamentary Education Office (PEO)
Parliamentary Education Office: Resources
An interactive website, which includes a range of fact sheets and units of work for teaching students about Australia's parliament and the Commonwealth. There are activities such as role plays, as well as a useful glossary.
This site is a who's who of federal parliament. There are a number of fact sheets that can be printed off on topics such as making laws and a typical sitting day.
A comprehensive website containing lots of information about the Parliament of Victoria. Particularly useful for students if you plan an excursion to Parliament House in Melbourne.
Yarra Healing: Stories and voices
Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER)
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
ACARA: Health and Physical Education
Australian Institute of Family Studies: Mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect factsheet
Australian Sports Commission: Australian Sport: The pathway to success
Catching on Early: Sexuality education for Victorian Primary Schools
Department of Health and Ageing: Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
Department of Health and Ageing: Physical Activity Guidelines
Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians
World Health Organization: The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
Ausdance: More than words can say: a view of literacy through the arts
Aussie Educator: Arts resources
Call to embed the arts in all curriculum areas
Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA)
Early Years Learning Framework
Video Professor Elliot W. Eisner 'What Do the Arts Teach?'
Video YouTube: The importance of art education
Dialogue about Religion: Some findings of the REDCo Project
Religious Diversity and Intercultural Education: A reference book for schools
UNESCO:
Culture and religion for a sustainable future
UNESCO:
Declaration on the Role of Religion in the Promotion of a Culture of Peace
Aboriginal Art Culture and Tourism Australia
Australian Curriculum Studies Association: Swan View Senior High School
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Coalition of Australian Governments (COAG): Closing the Gap for Indigenous Australians
Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages and Culture (FATSILC)
Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Schools
A history of Aboriginal Sydney
New South Wales Board of Studies: Aboriginal Educational Contexts
Prime Minister's apology to the Stolen Generations (speech)
Queensland Studies Authority: Indigenous perspectives
What Works: Improving outcomes for Indigenous students
What Works: Stepping up: What works in pre-service teacher education
Protocols
Mina Mir Lo Ailan Mun: Proper communication with Torres Strait Islander people
Protocols for consultation and negotiation with Aboriginal people
Respecting Cultures: Working with the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community and Aboriginal Artists
Language resources
New South Wales Board of Studies: Aboriginal languages
A website developed by ESL staff with FNQ ISSU
Education Queensland: Guidelines for students with English as a Second Language (ESL)
Western Australian Department of Education: Understanding stories my way
Brainpop: Learn about skeleton
Math and science teaching strategies (Teacher Vision)
Planet Friendly: Sustainable living guide
Professional learning and leadership development
Video You Tube: The Solar System
Video YouTube: Solar System animation
Strategies for Science Teaching and Assessment
The Tasmanian Curriculum: English–literacy
New South Wales Board of Studies: Curriculum Integration
New South Wales Board of Studies: Guiding Statement
Some education departments have established a rationale, principles and guidelines for planning and implementing curricula integration.
Models for curricula integration
Case study St Joseph's Primary School, Collingwood: Integrated
Curriculum Overview
Models of curriculum integration
PBL Approach: A model for integrated curriculum
Ten ways to integrate curriculum
Primary Connections: Linking science with literacy
Presents strong links between literacy and science.
Integrating subjects with mathematics
Google Images search: Mathematics and art
Google images can help students to see the possibilities for creating
mathematical art.
Mathematics and art – so many connections
A brief paper about mathematics and art, how one can inspire the other.
Mathematics, art and architecture
The integration of mathematics and music in the primary school classroom
Vassar Colllege: Earth Science and Geography
Curricula integration and cross-curricula perspectives
ACARA: The Australian Curriculum Cross-curriculum priorities
There are ample opportunities for teachers to integrate curricula.
State or national curriculum documents provide guidance along these avenues with further opportunities for cross-curricula perspectives.
Primary School: Lessons, links and resources
Matching curriculum documents with ideas that are readily available via the internet can help to facilitate engaging curricula integrated lessons for primary students.
Documents to assist with planning for teaching.
AITSL: Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
AITSL: Australian Professional Standards for Teachers – The 7
Standards
New South Wales: Professional Teaching Standards
Northern Territory: Professional standards and ethics
Queensland: Professional Standards for Queensland Teachers
(graduate level)
South Australia: Professional Standards
Tasmania: Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
Victoria: Standards and Learning
Western Australia: Professional Standards for Teachers in WA
Student teaching tips
TEDD: Mentoring for effective teaching
Suggested formats for gaining feedback and observing mentor teachers.
AITSL: Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
Australian Curriculum: General capabilities
Encyclopaedia of Informal Education: Reflection
QUT: Developing Reflective Approaches to Writing
Video The Social Media Revolution 2012
A recent variation of 'Did You Know?' fact video.