The Australian Curriculum has seven general capabilities:
- Critical and creative thinking
- Digital literacy
- Ethical understanding
- Intercultural understanding
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Personal and social capability.
The general capabilities play a significant role in the Australian Curriculum in equipping young Australians to live and work successfully in the 21st century.
Advice
The following resources support schools to embed the general capabilities in their teaching, learning and assessment programs.
General capabilities mapping
The following resources map the alignment between content descriptions and general capabilities within phases of learning.
Phases
- Mapping the general capabilities: Prep–Year 2 (PDF, 187.4 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 3–4 (PDF, 186.6 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 3–6 (PDF, 187.8 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 5–6 (PDF, 181.7 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 (PDF, 210.6 KB)
Primary
- Mapping the general capabilities: Prep (PDF, 205.0 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Year 1 (PDF, 195.1 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Year 2 (PDF, 190.5 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Year 3 (PDF, 202.5 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Year 4 (PDF, 201.4 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Year 5 (PDF, 202.5 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Year 6 (PDF, 202.5 KB)
Secondary
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Chinese (PDF, 221.6 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Civics and Citizenship (PDF, 219.3 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Dance (PDF, 198.0 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Design and Technologies (PDF, 198.3 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Digital Technologies (PDF, 197.8 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Drama (PDF, 198.7 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Economics and Business (PDF, 215.8 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — English (PDF, 217.1 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — French (PDF, 220.3 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Geography (PDF, 215.4 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Health and Physical Education (PDF, 202.8 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — History (PDF, 229.9 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Italian (PDF, 219.3 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Japanese (PDF, 220.6 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Mathematics (PDF, 227.0 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Media Arts (PDF, 198.2 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Music (PDF, 199.2 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Science (PDF, 217.7 KB)
- Mapping the general capabilities: Years 7–10 — Visual Arts (PDF, 198.4 KB)
Learning continua
Learning continua for the following five general capabilities are labelled from Level 1–6 to present a sequence of learning independent of year levels.
Level overviews
Level overviews show the development of the following five general capabilities within a single level:
- Critical and creative thinking
- Digital literacy
- Ethical understanding
- Intercultural understanding
- Personal and social capability.
Progressions
Progressions for the following two general capabilities are labelled from Level 1–6 to present
a sequence of detailed, observable, evidence-based indicators of literacy and numeracy
development.
- Last updated:
- 11 April 2024
