Student Learning: What could a future curriculum look like?

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STUDENT LEARNING What could a future curriculum
look like?
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OUR EDUCATIVE PURPOSE
What is powerful to learn?
What is powerful learning and what promotes it?
Who do we report to?
LEARNER
Victorian Essential Learning Standards
Principles of Learning and Teaching P-12
Victorian Essential Learning Standards
Principles of Learning and Teaching P-12
Students Parents Colleagues School System
How do we know it has been learnt?
Assessment Advice
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Problems and goals would not be completely
predefined by the curriculum. Students would
repeatedly practise identifying and solving
problems, rather than having them placed before
them. The Creative Age - Knowledge and Skills
for the New Economy. DEMOS 1999.
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Learning would take place in a range of contexts
and use a range of methods. Projects would not
all be research-based or within a traditional
classroom environment. Students would be involved
in doing as much as in thinking or knowing. The
Creative Age - Knowledge and Skills for the New
Economy. DEMOS 1999.
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Alongside more traditional, teacher-centred
assessment, students work would be evaluated by
field experts, peers, parents and so on. It would
be evaluated for different kinds of skills and
knowledge - interpersonal, thinking strategies,
self-organisation, depthof understanding and so
on. The Creative Age - Knowledge and Skills for
the New Economy. DEMOS 1999.
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Thinking and self-assessment would be embedded
across the curriculum. Students would focus
particularly on learning to make connections
between different contexts - the transfer and
application of knowledge across different
domains. The Creative Age - Knowledge and Skills
for the New Economy. DEMOS 1999.
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Skills would be revisited and practisedover
time, so that knowledge gained earlier in an
educational career could be applied creatively to
new problems. The Creative Age - Knowledge and
Skills for the New Economy. DEMOS 1999.
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Students would gain depth of understanding in a
number of disciplines, or domains of knowledge,
including traditional academic subjects. They
would also learn explicitly how to
combineinter-disciplinary knowledge in
completing a project goal. The Creative Age -
Knowledge and Skills for the New Economy. DEMOS
1999.
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If all the curriculum documents in the world were
destroyed what would be important for students
to learn?