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Innovating the SACE | Subject renewal | Subject Renewal roadmap | Full Renewal

Full Renewal

Full Subject Renewal involves a comprehensive redesign of a subject guided by the key drivers and our new approach to curriculum and assessment.

This pathway enables deeper changes to subject concepts, learning outcomes, assessment types and their conditions, and performance standards. It provides the opportunity to fully embed approaches such as deep authentic learning, capability development, student agency, metacognition and natural evidence of learning within the subject's design.

Full Renewal is undertaken for subjects where the timing and readiness are appropriate to support significant change, drawing on the expertise of Subject Renewal Groups and broader consultation with educators and stakeholders. The subjects included in the Full Renewal pathway are listed below.

Phases of Full Renewal


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The SACE Board will support all SRGs to work through 4 phases:

Engage & discover 
Subject Renewal Groups (SRGs) develop the subject vision statement that matches the SACE Board’s drivers for thriving learners (Passport to Thrive) and our new curriculum and assessment approach. 

Gather student feedback and review global trends to improve the subject’s vision statement and form learning outcomes that conceptually map to the SACE Board’s drivers.

Develop
Develop the subject vision statement and learning outcomes into prototype Stage 1 assessment types and conditions. Consider assumptions about students and the teaching community, preparing to test these assumptions in a real Stage 1 classroom. 

Test, learn & adapt
Pilot assessment types with students in the classroom. 

SACE evaluation approaches are used to support SRGs to check and learn with students on whether new assessment types and learning design are developing capabilities, creating conditions for student agency, supporting natural evidence of learning, encouraging deep authentic learning and student metacognition. 

Using the pilot evaluation, new assessment types are incorporated into Stage 1 subject outlines. 

Transfer & adapt
The learnings from Stage 1 are transferred and adapted to a Stage 2 context. 

Stage 2 subject outlines are drafted from Stage 1 subject outlines. 

Post-accreditation, the SACE Board will:

Implement & support
The SACE will provide updates throughout the renewal process.   

The SACE Board will continuously evaluate for impact to provide confidence that the renewed subject outlines will help students thrive and are ready for broader use.   

For further information visit Implementation and support. 

Reinforce, monitor & improve 
Following the first year of implementation, professional learning continues through: 

  • PLATO Connect subject communities of practice 
  • new materials for new assessment types on PLATO Calibrate 
  • Face-to-face workshops. 
  • Engaging teachers in quality assurance activities. 

The SACE continues to monitor the impact of subjects and makes yearly refinements to support teachers. 

For further information visit the Implementation and support page.

Support 
If you have any questions or inquiries about our Subject Renewal program, our askSACE team can assist.
Please phone 1300 322 920 or email askSACE@sa.gov.au.