“That ICPA QLD lobbies the Minister for Education to declutter and realign the Australian Curriculum, with a focus on stronger outcomes in core subjects, having particular emphasis on literacy and numeracy.”
It has been over 10 years since the Australian Curriculum was adopted in Queensland from prep to year 10. Statistics show that rural students results are declining. To assist rural and remote schools to deliver the current version of the national curriculum and ensure they are not disadvantaged further the curriculum needs to be refined to ensure students are concentrating and reinforcing their learning on the core skills, particularly literacy and numeracy. Students and teachers have been overwhelmed by the amount of unnecessary work students are expected to complete outside of basic core skills. This has been particularly evident with students studying via on-air platforms as non-skilled home tutors are often required to cover the whole curriculum.
