US Department of Education – Competency-Based Learning, with links to several states' curriculum development
Singapore Ministry of Education:
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority - recent draft of Australian Technologies curriculum (February 2013)
(See especially the rubric on page 32.)
21st Century Schools, a US-based provider of professional development curriculum
Science
The Next Generation Science Standards
Read the USA Today story, about the "next generation" academic standards: National science standards likely to raise 'ruckus'
21st Century Skills Map for Science (The Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the National Science Teachers Association)
Witness student growth across grade levels with new Common Core math videos - Lily Jones, Tchers' Voice blog, 18 July 2013
Math
With Common Core, Fewer Topics but Covered More Rigorously – Kenneth Chang, New York Times (Education Issue), 2 Sept 2013.
American math teacher Dan Meyer's TED talk about math education and curriculum - "Math class needs a makeover"
"New math teaching method coming to Madison schools," 18 April 2013
- Singapore Ministry of Education
21st Century Skills Map for Math (The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the Mathematical Association of America, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
Arts
Australia's draft Arts Curriculum - February 2013
An earlier draft has been criticised by one of Australia’s daily national newspapers. The Australian:
"Design for the arts under fire," by Jared Owens - 10 July 2012
. . . the Visual Arts Consortium, a NSW-based lobby group, doubted whether students would be given enough time to engage with the workload, given the pressure on teachers to produce higher NAPLAN literacy and numeracy results.
The group also said the syllabus was an "incoherently written" document, which lowers standards to appeal to the governments of states that have historically lagged behind in the arts.
Karen Maras, an Australian Catholic University senior lecturer and VAC spokeswoman, said the new curriculum was inferior to the NSW syllabus, focusing too heavily on art-making in the early years.
"It's as if they expect students to understand art purely intuitively by creating it . . . It's not until Year 3 and 4 that students start looking at other people's artworks," said the former classroom teacher.
"It's simply too late. It underestimates the intellectual capacity of children to not only paint pictures but analyse what their work means."
ACARA maintains the draft curriculum "draws on current arts curricula in each state and territory and reflects best practice in arts education across the country".
Federal School Education Minister Peter Garrett said the positive impacts of compulsory classes in the full range of arts subjects would be "huge".
"Learning subject areas like music and drama inspires creativity, encourages young people to think critically, helps develop their sense of identity and can provide great benefits for learning in other core areas," Mr Garrett said.
21st Century Skills Map for the Arts (The Partnership for 21st Century Skills)
Conceptual Framework for Arts Learning (National Coalition for Core Arts Standards)
Social Studies
21st Century Skills Map for Social Studies (The Partnership for 21st Century Skills & the National Council for the Social Studies)
English Language Arts
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment
21st Century Skills Map for English (The Partnership for 21st Century Skills & the National Council of Teachers of English)
Health & Physical Education
The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (2012)
French Immersion
2012 Immersion Conference - The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
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