AATE response to the draft Australian English Curriculum
(updated 22 August 2012)
Senior Syllabuses: Read the AATE response to ACARA here
(updated 24 June 2010)
Years K-10: Read the AATE response to the draft K-10 Australian Curriculum: English here.
View State and Territory ETA responses here:
ACTATE ETANSW ETAQ ETAWA SAETA TATE
(updated 9 August 2010)
Senior Years: Read the AATE consolidated response to the draft
Senior English courses here.
Letter from AATE President Mark Howie to The Australian re the National Curriculum (27 May 2009)
The Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) is deeply committed to the national goal of providing all young Australians with a solid educational foundation on which further learning and adult life can be built. The idea that the association is somehow out of step with mainstream opinion on the teaching of reading (‘Reading syllabus hijacked by fringe groups as basics ignored’, May 27) is wrong.
The AATE response to the National Curriculum Board’s consultation in fact cited research given credence in the report of the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy in support of its position favouring balanced reading programs. This position is also in accord with what teachers around the country and the results of national literacy testing tell us is working for the very great majority of students. AATE certainly does not, and never has, advocated the position that decoding skills are unnecessary in the process of learning to read.
AATE confirms its commitment to the process of developing the best possible national curriculum for all young Australians.
Mark Howie
President
Australian Association for the Teaching of English
