Syllabuses are designed for teachers to make professional decisions to tailor curriculum and
assessment design and delivery to suit their school context and the goals, aspirations and
abilities of their students within the parameters of Queensland’s senior phase of learning.
The syllabus is used by teachers to develop curriculum for their school context. The term course
of study describes the unique curriculum and assessment that students engage with in each
school context. A course of study is the product of a series of decisions made by a school to
select, organise and contextualise subject matter, integrate complementary and important
learning, and create assessment tasks in accordance with syllabus specifications.
It is encouraged that, where possible, a course of study is designed such that teaching, learning
and assessment activities are integrated and enlivened in an authentic setting.