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How does Start Where You Are link to the Australian Curriculum?
Every Start Where You Are unit is mapped to the Australian Curriculum and the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 for Years 9 and 10, with connections to VCE subjects for Years 11 and 12. Most units link to Health and Physical Education and the Personal and Social Capability.
Australian Curriculum (Years 9 and 10)
- Health and Physical Education: Personal, Social and Community Health in every unit. For example, help-seeking (Chapter 2), respectful relationships and inclusion (Chapter 7), resilience and self-talk (Chapter 8), and identity and planning for the future (Chapter 11). Chapter 5 also links to Movement and Physical Activity.
- General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability in every unit, Ethical Understanding in Chapter 12, and Literacy in the closing letter.
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 (Levels 9 and 10)
Every unit is mapped to Health and Physical Education and the Personal and Social Capability.
VCE (Years 11 and 12)
Units connect to VCE Health and Human Development (Unit 1) and VCE Vocational Major Personal Development Skills.
Registered educators can see the unit-by-unit alignment maps in their dashboard.
Why it matters
Curriculum links make it easier to fit the lessons into existing programs and to explain them to school leaders and parents.
Quick answers
Where do I find the alignment?
In the educator dashboard, under the curriculum.
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Why people trust Start Where You Are
- Written by Ash Manuel, a former PE teacher and founder of Growing With Gratitude, which has reached more than 1 million young people across 1,205 schools in 80 countries.
- Foreword by Dr Phil Cummins of the University of Sydney and the Sydney Character Initiative.
- Shaped by conversations with young people about what they actually wanted from a book like this.
- Published by Amba Press and featured on 9News Adelaide.