Department of Education and Training

Since 2002 the Northern Territory (NT) has had a mandated Curriculum Framework that identifies learning outcomes for all Northern Territory learners from Transition to Year 10. The NTCF describes what learners are expected to achieve and is used to determine what learners have achieved. 

The Northern Territory Curriculum Framework (NTCF) is an overarching document to guides schools in:

• providing a curriculum that maximises the capacity of all learners to achieve the standards described in the NTCF
• using evidence-based teaching and learning pedagogies to close the gap between learners' current achievement levels and targeted outcomes
• assessing, monitoring and evaluating learners' progress and achievement against NTCF standards using processes to support consistency of teachers' judgements.

NT Curriculum Framework Progress Maps have been developed to clarify the level of student achievement, skills and understandings of the NTCF.

Teachers are required to use all of the following NTCF documents (2002 and 2009)

These are also available through the Schools Portal.