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Designing the Classroom Curriculum
Table 11.1: Important NAPLAN documents and sites to Review
Document / Site
Location (See Book Resource
Centre for clickable link)
Purpose
NAPLAN Site
On this website you will find more
information about NAPLAN and NAP
Sample Assessments. This information is
useful for parents and carers, schools,
state and territory authorities and the
wider community.
Information about  General Information
NAPLAN
for  NAPLAN Test administration
NSW schools
 NAPLAN test timetable
 NAPLAN Publications www.nap.edu.au
Teaching
Strategies
Mathematics http://www.schools.
nsw.edu.au/learning/
7-
12assessments/napla
n/teachstrategies/yr2
012/index.php?id=n
umeracy/nn_over
http://www.schools.
nsw.edu.au/learning/
7-
12assessments/napla
n/teachstrategies/yr2
011/index.php?id=lit
eracy/ll_over
Teaching
Strategies
English
The Numeracy and Literacy Teaching
for Strategies documents provide teachers
with strategies and activities which will
assist students to:
 access the knowledge they need
using strategies that are explicit
and relevant
 develop their understanding of
concepts
for
 transfer the skills they have
developed using the strategies in
new, contextual and varied
situations.
http://www.boardof
studies.nsw.edu.au/n
aplan/info-for-
schools.html
To enable comparisons to be made through NAPLAN, but chiefly to enable more consistency in curriculum
across Australia, ‘Statements of Learning’ have been developed. These statements “set out the knowledge, skills,
understandings and capacities that students across Australia should have the opportunity to learn and
develop in each learning domain” (Curriculum Corporation, 2005, p1). These statements have been
developed for English, mathematics, science, civics and citizenship and information communication
technologies. The premise of statements of learning is not to create a curriculum for teachers to follow but
to enable the developers of curriculum in each jurisdiction a standard developmental framework. The
important point to note is that these statements of learning also create the assessment framework for
NAPLAN and thus determines what is tested. They also have the consequence of creating the reporting
frameworks and thus learning domains such as ‘reading and viewing’, ‘writing’ and ‘speaking and listening’
in English (for example) are now common organisers in school programming. See Table 11.1 for reference
documents associated with understanding NAPLAN.
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