Curriculum planning guides for teachers

Simple guides to help you plan your teaching. Explore curriculum choices, lessons, assessments, marking guides and coverage.

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Curriculum

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How Content Descriptions Work in the Australian Curriculum v9

A practical guide to reading content descriptions in context, using elaborations carefully and turning AC9S5U03 into coherent teaching and evidence.

Updated 20 October 2026

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What Are Achievement Standards in the Australian Curriculum v9?

Understand what achievement standards describe, how they connect to taught content and evidence, and what Australian teachers need to check locally.

Updated 20 October 2026

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Australian Curriculum v9: What Teachers Need to Know

Understand Version 9.0 nationally, then see how curriculum implementation differs across Australia and what to check before updating plans and resources.

Updated 3 September 2026

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What Changed from Australian Curriculum v8 to v9

See what actually changed in Version 9.0 and how to check old plans, resources, codes and assessment evidence against current requirements.

Updated 3 September 2026

Planning

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Unit plan template and a Year 10 History example

See how selected curriculum connects to an assessment, marking guide, four week unit and lesson plans. Open the original Word examples.

Updated 21 October 2026

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Backward design with a real Year 10 History example

Choose the learning, decide how students will show it, then plan the lessons. Follow a real Year 10 History example with original Word downloads.

Updated 20 October 2026

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How to plan a teaching term

Start with your school calendar, choose the learning and make room for teaching, practice and feedback. See where a real History unit fits.

Published 20 October 2026

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How to plan one unit around several assessments

Give each assessment a clear job. Plan the teaching, practice and feedback around all the tasks, with separate steps for Lite and the Planning Wizard.

Published 20 October 2026

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How to track curriculum coverage across a year

See where learning fits, which assessments check it and what needs attention. Explore a Lite History example and a separate Planning Wizard coverage view.

Updated 20 October 2026

Assessment

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How to write a rubric or marking guide with the 4Cs

Start with the learning. Use the 4Cs to describe student work, review Auto Assign suggestions and see how a real guide links to an assessment.

Updated 21 October 2026

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Understanding the A–E Reporting Scale in Australian Schools

Separate the Commonwealth reporting condition from curriculum standards, task results and the policies used by states, territories, sectors and schools.

Updated 3 September 2026

Teaching

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How to make lesson slides from achievement standards

Follow a real Year 8 History slide example. See the topic, outline, editor and a finished slide, with separate paths for Lite, Quick Lesson and the Planning Wizard.

Updated 21 October 2026

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How to Turn a Content Description into Learning Intentions and Success Criteria

A repeatable method for unpacking curriculum language and writing learning intentions and success criteria that guide teaching and useful evidence.

Published 3 September 2026

Responsible AI

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How to review AI teaching resources for your class

Use five simple checks before teaching. See separate examples of a linked HASS task, a Mathematics guide suggestion and a History slide.

Updated 21 October 2026

Explore the Curriculum

Browse ACARA v9 achievement standards and content descriptions from Foundation to Year 10. Need a state source? Check curriculum availability.

Achievement Standards → Content Descriptors →

Plan with the Australian Curriculum v9

Pick the standards you are teaching, then use TeaCheese to draft lessons, marking guides and assessments you can review and adapt.

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