Building Values Across the Whole School: A Resource Package

Building Values Across the Whole School: A Resource Package forms part of the Values for Australian Schooling resource series. The resource package complements and expands on the values education resources delivered to all Australian schools in the Values for Australian Schooling Kit. The package consists of two components: primary and secondary Teaching and Learning Units and a Professional Learning Programme.

Building Values Across the Whole School: A Resource Package is for all Australian schools. Due to copyright obligations it is being published on this website through a special restricted access facility from The Learning Federation. Read below for more information on the Teaching and Learning Units and the Professional Learning Programme.

The Resource Package is available as PDF files. The Teaching and Learning Units can be downloaded as individual units or bundled together in the one package. To access Building Values across the Whole School: A Resource Package read the following instructions. It is strongly suggested that schools download the package to their school intranet so that the materials only have to be downloaded once.

Access to the Resource Package

To access Building Values Across the Whole School: A Resource Package you will need the access code key. This access code key has been sent in a letter, to all Australian school principals, which arrived in schools the week commencing 15 October 2007.
Click on the button ‘Access resources’ below.
Conditions of use apply to the use of the Resource Package by schools. You will be asked to read and agree to the conditions of use before accessing the package.
On the Login page, enter the access code key where indicated and exactly as written. Upper and lower case letters must be entered as written.
You will then see a list of links for the Teaching and Learning Units, broken down into Early years, Middle childhood, Early adolescence, and Later adolescence units, and a link for the Professional Learning Programme. You will have a choice of downloading the units as individual units or bundled together as a complete package.
Click on a link to select the units. This will take you to a page with a description of the contents. Open and view the PDF files online or save the files to a school computer or intranet.
Adobe reader is required to download the PDF files.

Teaching and Learning Units

The Teaching and Learning Units support the integration of values education across key learning areas (KLAs) in the school curriculum. There are sixteen units for primary years comprising eight units each for Early years and Middle childhood, and sixteen units for secondary years with eight units each for Early adolescence and Later adolescence.

The teaching and learning units:

are designed for teaching and learning in particular KLAs
support interdisciplinary approaches
are self-contained, with resources such as student resource sheets included
utilise key principles of values education good practice
deliver a sequence of suggested teaching and learning activities
model how values understandings and practices can be integrated within the context of other curriculum materials and objectives.

The introductions to the primary and secondary Teaching and Learning Units may be downloaded below. These introductions include a matrix with the title, a brief overview, the explicit values focus and the key learning areas addressed in each of the units.

Professional Learning Programme

Teaching Practice and Values Education: Professional Learning Programme aims to promote teacher learning about values education and support teachers as they impart values within all areas of the school curriculum. The programme focuses on the role of the teacher as a values educator in classroom practice and is designed and written for a school-based facilitator or facilitator team to provide the professional learning delivery in local school settings.

The Professional Learning Programme:

supports teacher knowledge and understanding of values education and the values education initiative based on the National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools
develops teacher knowledge and understanding of how to integrate values education in curriculum and classroom practice
provides opportunities to explore the implementation of values education in individual teaching practice and in a local school context
consists of three modules of approximately 80-90 minutes each that will ideally be delivered in stages over a number of school terms
provides pre-delivery materials, ongoing learning activities and supporting resources.

Each of the three modules has a particular focus:

Module 1: Introduction to values education
Module 2: Values education in classroom practice
Module 3: Applied values education

Download the introduction to Building Values Across the Whole School: A Resource Package, and the introductions to the primary and secondary Teaching and Learning Units

Building Values Across the Whole School: A Resource package: Overall introduction 318kb pdf.
Teaching and Learning Units: Primary introduction 554kb pdf.
Teaching and Learning Units: Secondary introduction 553kb pdf.