Alignment with ACARA

Our NeuroMite program supports the national curriculum requirements of schools as required by the Federal Government. ACARA is the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. It sets the national school curriculum for K-12 in Australia.

All states and territories need to comply with the national agenda for school curricula. The curriculum has three elements: Learning Areas, General Capabilities, and Cross Curriculum Priorities. All three elements pertain to foundation years through to grade 10, while senior years focus on advanced topics within the Learning Areas element.

Relevance of NeuroMite

NeuroMite supports more effective learning for students for all areas of the national agenda for school curricula. NeuroMite does not replace the function of schools because there is no direct teaching of the curriculum areas. Instead, NeuroMite, supports the development of critical abilities that enable improved acquisition of, and greater development, in school curricula.

Learning Areas (ACARA)

Within ACARA, the prime learning areas that teachers are expected to teach students are english, mathematics, science, history, geography, and the arts along with other potential subjects such as civics and citizenship, economics and business, health and physical education, and technologies.

NeuroMite relevance to these learning areas - Attention, memory and executive control will underpin successful acquisition of all learning areas. Therefore, it is relevant to all school years from prep up to middle school.

General Capabilities (ACARA)

Schools and teachers need to give explicit attention to the General Capabilities listed below, although development can occur directly through the capability or as applied in each Learning Area mentioned above.

Literacy**
Numeracy**
Information and communication technology (ICT) capability
Critical and creative thinking**
Personal and social capability**
Ethical understanding
Intercultural understanding

NeuroMite relevance - Whilst NeuroMite will develop attention, memory and executive control that underpin successful acquisition of all general capability areas, from prep up to middle school, there is heightened relevance for the areas that are asterisked.

• Cognitive and non-cognitive abilities from NeuroMite are particularly relevant to the development of Personal and Social Capability (i.e., developing self awareness, self control, awareness of others and forming healthy relationships).
• Attention, memory and executive control underpin successful acquisition of literacy and numeracy as a priority within the General Capabilities group.
• People are likely to experience better critical and creative thinking due to NeuroMite (e.g., better attention will lead to the generation of creative ideas and critical analysis, better memory will allow improved exploration of critical issues and creative ideas, better executive functioning will result in better control over distractions and impulses so that ideas are useful (not just entertaining) and arguments relevant and logical).