Agriculture Life Skills Stage 6 (2010)
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The new Agriculture Life Skills 11–12 draft syllabus is available for consultation, as part of the NSW Curriculum Reform.
About the course
The Agriculture Life Skills Stage 6 course provides opportunities for students to engage in the study of agricultural enterprises, including the impact of past and current issues, in order to design, produce and evaluate agricultural products.
Study of the Agriculture Life Skills Stage 6 course should contribute to students’ understanding of research, design, systems and environments, as well as their ability to manipulate and produce products.
The structure of the Agriculture Life Skills course allows teachers to provide a broad and balanced program that reflects the needs of individual students within the context of the collaborative curriculum planning process. Students may study selected outcomes and content within the course.
Study of the Agriculture Life Skills course involves:
- knowledge and understanding of a design process
- knowledge and skills of a range of technologies for a variety of purposes in an agricultural enterprise
- production, management and marketing of agricultural products
- an appreciation of past and current issues impacting on Australian agricultural enterprises
Board Developed Course
Course number(s):
- 16681 Agriculture Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary)
- 16681 Agriculture Life Skills (2 units – HSC)
Prerequisites: A student studying any Stage 6 Life Skills course will usually have completed one or more courses based on Life Skills outcomes and content in Years 7–10, except under special circumstances.
Corequisites: Nil
Eligibility: Life Skills Eligibility
Study via self-tuition: No
Exclusions:
- 11010 Agriculture (2 units – Preliminary)
- 15010 Agriculture (2 units – HSC)
- 16686 Technology Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary) (where Agriculture is undertaken within the course)
- 16686 Technology Life Skills (2 units – HSC) (where Agriculture is undertaken within the course)
On entering students for the Agriculture Life Skills Stage 6 course, the principal is certifying that the student is eligible and the decision is the result of the collaborative curriculum planning process.
Students are expected to address or achieve one or more of the Agriculture Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes. They need not address or complete all of the content to demonstrate achievement of an outcome.
The knowledge and skills developed in this course can be applied across a range of career pathways.
Industries related to this course include, but are not limited to, the following outlined on the Your Career website:
What are Life Skills courses
All students are entitled to participate in and progress through the curriculum. Life Skills courses provide course options for students with intellectual disability or imputed intellectual disability in Years 11–12 who cannot access related general education courses.
Students with disability can access syllabus outcomes and content in a range of ways, including through a range of adjustments to teaching, learning and assessment activities. Decisions regarding curriculum options should be made in the context of collaborative curriculum planning.
Assessment support and advice
Teaching and learning support
The Life Skills outcomes worksheet can be used to collect information on the outcomes that a student has achieved before recording them in Schools Online.
Agriculture Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes worksheet (DOCX 16.15KB)
Read more about supporting students with special education needs.