The draft Australian Curriculum for English, mathematics, science and history (K–10) will be available for consultation from 1 March 2010 to the end of May 2010.

You will be able to read, review and/or download the drafts from a dedicated consultation website. On this site you can complete an online survey to annotate the curriculum materials, pose questions and provide written comments.

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) invites teachers and all other stakeholders in the broader education community to get involved in the consultation process and will carefully consider all feedback received. For further details, please visit the ACARA website or view this short video.

This summer 2010 edition of EQ Australia - A national curriculum: Looking forward is the final edition and celebrates what has been, as well as what is yet to come in the Australian education landscape. It heralds Australia’s move toward a national curriculum both in the development of the Australian Curriculum through the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and also in recognising perspectives and elements that underpin curriculum nationally.

The articles draw on the work of key contributors, offering insight, leadership and advocacy. Read online the article by Peter Hill, the first chief executive officer at ACARA, who gives us a succinct overview of curriculum, what it is and what it is not. Dr Hill outlines the development, conceptualisation and structure, use and accessibility, and support for an Australian curriculum in preparation. Order your print copy here, or contact our sales team.

Note: EQ Australia will live on through the archive at eqa.edu.au.

Available now, Thinking Tools for the Inquiry Classroom is a practical resource for engaging inquiry learning in the middle years. This is a highly effective, broad collection of tools for motivating students to take an active role in their own learning, by, for example, asking questions, seeking information, making connections, reflecting and building on their own understandings. The guidance on inquiry stages, multiple intelligences and the critical and creative thinking approaches students use, scaffolds your ability to adapt and extend these thinking tools in your own classroom. More...

Have you got this yet? Thinking Tools has a companion title, Thinking Strategies for the Inquiry Classroom. Thought-provoking strategies link inquiry to thinking skills to help stimulate inquiry learning in your classroom.

Be inspired to create your own classroom of critical thinkers with this new book by Vivian Vasquez.

Getting Beyond "I Like the Book" is driven by the premise that local and global issues capturing students’ interest should be used to build a curriculum that has significance in their lives. It goes on to demonstrate how books and everyday texts can be used to achieve this.

This expanded second edition includes new chapters focused on critical literacy in Science and SOSE, and a fresh focus on multimedia literacy and using multimedia text. More…

Our primary and secondary catalogues for 2010 are now available. Click here to request a print copy or click on a cover below to view an interactive online version.