New Syllabus Consultations - Thoughts? (1 Viewer)

[monkeyseemonkeydo]

NESA has released their draft syllabi to be put into place after 2025 - right now is their consultation period, where people (teachers) are allowed to give feedback. The HSC Maths, English and History courses all have new drafted syllabi - sciences aren't touched. What do you all think?

Link: https://www.nsw.gov.au/education-and-training/nesa/news/syllabus-consultations

 

[carrotsss]

From a quick skim it seems pretty similar to the current syllabi at least for maths ext 2 and english adv

 

[its_ace21]

can they make math standard harder

 

[AsuTeksu]

can they make math standard harder

make them suffer

 

[AsuTeksu]

can nesa make all of the syllabi like a milliion times worse, i just wanna see the reactions of the first students who go through it-

 

[Masaken]

idk about ancient or his ext but modern looks like it's being changed slightly more than english and maths. they've changed the core study topic name to 'democracy and dictatorships' and removed japan's ambitions + league of nations and UN (aka the most mid parts of the topic ngl) and have made it way more focused on nazi germany as the primary case study of how democratic govts move towards dictatorship (which makes sense). can't believe they're considering moving the cuba topic to a national study topic (i did it in year 11) and replaced india with it but it would be a cool case study other than the soviet union that would transition well into the cold war topic in peace + conflict....

interesting how they've slightly changed the time periods for some of the topics so that they're more relevant and closer to modern times, like trump and brexit is studied in one of the options for section iv lol. overall i personally didn't think modern needed a change but sure why not

 

[its_ace21]

is the business/legal syllabus ever gonna change theyre so old

 

[Interdice]

Who takes Life Skills courses? Like there are a few life skill students in my school. In year 9 there was a girl who is taking life skills courses now. She could speak with the normal students and didn't seem that dumb.

Like why not take Math Standard 1 or English Studies. I wish I could take English Life Skills.

Also kind of morbid question, but what career do these kids have?

 

[carrotsss]

Who takes Life Skills courses? Like there are a few life skill students in my school. In year 9 there was a girl who is taking life skills courses now. She could speak with the normal students and didn't seem that dumb.

Like why not take Math Standard 1 or English Studies. I wish I could take English Life Skills.

Also kind of morbid question, but what career do these kids have?

They're intended for people with disabilities

 

[Rattlehead15]

is the business/legal syllabus ever gonna change theyre so old

Same as the tas courses they go back decades. English, science and maths get pampered by nesa

 

[mintyoongi]

Same as the tas courses they go back decades. English, science and maths get pampered by nesa

what are tas courses?

 

[Rattlehead15]

what are tas courses?

Technology like food tech, design and tech, industrial tech, IPT/SDD etc. Although IPT and SDD are getting new syllabi which is pretty cool

 

[notme123]

the only major change i can see for maths is introducing 3d vectors in 3u.

in fact most of these syllabi have little to no changes