The F–10 Tasmanian Religious Education Curriculum (Good News for Living) is organised into three interrelated strands: Knowledge and Understanding, Inquiry and Communication and Discernment and Making Connections. These assessment strands are used to assess the learning of students at all levels from Foundation to Year 10.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994) is the basis of Catholic understanding and focuses upon the Profession of Faith, the Celebration of the Christian Mystery, Life in Christ and Christian Prayer. This strand includes knowledge of the Catholic faith, of Christianity, of the Bible as a sacred text, focusing primarily on Christian beliefs, practices and ethical values. Understanding the core story of Jesus Christ is developed from Foundation to Year 10. The Good News for Living Curriculum Framework for Religious Education in the Archdiocese of Hobart (2005) has eight core elements - Jesus Christ, God, Church, Sacraments, Christian Prayer, Religion and Society, Christian Life and Scripture. From 2013 these are assessed through these assessment strands.
This strand promotes skills used in the process of studying Christianity and other belief systems: its sub-strands are ‘Questioning and Theorising’,‘Interpreting Terms and Texts’ and ‘Communication’. Within this strand there is an increasing emphasis on the interpretation of personal experience and exploration of human tradition.
This strand values the process of seeking and making meaning that is essential to considering beliefs and their practice.The process of discernment engages personal and communal experience, seeks understanding, weighs judgment and culminates in decision-making.This strand promotes affective appreciation and the making of connections to other learning and can be observed in personal commitments, religious expression and social action. Its sub-strands are ‘See: Identifying and Reflecting’, ‘Judge: Evaluating and Integrating’ and ‘Act: Responding and Participating’.
The Discernment and making Connections strand integrates the pursuit of Knowledge and the skills of Inquiry into a personal and communal interpretative process.