Capabilities - Year 9

Mandatory: Yes

Duration: Full year

Description

The General Capabilities play a significant role in the Australian Curriculum in equipping young people to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century. Students develop a capability when they apply knowledge and skills confidently, effectively, and appropriately in complex and changing circumstances, in their learning at school and in their lives outside school.

The general capabilities are:

• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Personal and Social
• Information, Communication and Technology
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Personal and Social Capability
• Ethical Understanding
• Intercultural Understanding

The Capability Connections Subject is a 1 lesson per week, term based, subject which focuses on developing the general capabilities. In developing these capabilities provide evidence for students towards completing their compulsory EIF & AIF subjects.

Each term, new Capability Connections subjects are offered to enable opportunities for personal growth in chosen area. The Capabilities offered are developed through an informed survey process with students and teachers. Capability connections aims to links students with community organisations and local industries to promote future pathways.