VCE weekly planner
Overview
This planner is designed to provide a clear, accessible, and practical roadmap for teaching VCE Media Units 3 and 4 over two school terms, aligning with VCAA timelines, outcomes, and assessment tasks. The planner supports teachers with scaffolded weekly content, incorporating key theory, practical skills, and assessment preparation.
This weekly planner for Year 12 VCE Media (Units 3 and 4) is structured to provide a coherent, scaffolded learning sequence that integrates analytical, creative, and reflective skills development across the year. It ensures alignment with the VCAA Media Study Design 2025–2028, addressing all three outcomes through interconnected activities, assessment checkpoints, and pedagogical strategies drawn from the High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS).
The sequence begins in Unit 3 with a focus on Narrative and Media Production Design. Weeks 1–2 establish foundational knowledge by explicitly teaching narrative conventions, media forms, and ideological representation. Collaborative learning and intercultural perspectives encourage critical engagement with identity, culture, and power in media texts, reflecting cross-curriculum priorities from the Mparntwe Declaration (2019).
Weeks 3–7 transition into pre-production and production phases. Students develop proposals, experiment with technologies, and refine technical skills through hands-on workshops. Feedback cycles (teacher and peer) provide formative assessment opportunities, ensuring students can make purposeful production decisions. Reflective practice is introduced early, enabling metacognitive growth and preparing students for the SAC in Week 7.
In Unit 4 (Weeks 8–14), the focus shifts to Agency and Control in and of the Media, integrating inquiry-based learning, ethical analysis, and advanced production techniques. Students explore ownership, regulation, marketing, and distribution, while continuing to develop their own productions. The sequence culminates in Week 13 with the submission of the final media product and reflection, followed by structured exam preparation in Week 14.
This planner balances theory and practice, ensuring consistent progression towards VCE outcomes. Each week incorporates targeted pedagogical approaches—explicit teaching, inquiry, collaboration, scaffolding—anchored in contemporary media education research (Buckingham, 2003; Burn & Durran, 2007; Walsh, 2007). The result is a dynamic, student-centred framework that develops critical, creative, and reflective media practitioners ready for both assessment and industry contexts.