21 st Century Curriculum for 21 st Century Schools The value of applied learning Tom Bentley Director, Applied Learning, ANZSOG

Our 21 st century environment  Connections breed interdependence  Networks multiply the value and growth of knowledge  Diversity and inequality can grow in tandem  We are overshadowed by the challenge of global sustainability

A new learning lifecycle  0-4critical development  5-13essential competences  14-19pathways to adult roles  20-80lifelong learners

A new curriculum era  Reduces content pressure  Greater flexibility for teaching  Values participation, progression, independent qualities  Has sections on enterprise, citizenship, creativity  Supports personalisation of learning pathways  Meets international operating standards

Personal, learning, thinking  Independent enquirers Independent enquirers  Creative thinkers Creative thinkers  Reflective learners Reflective learners  Team workers Team workers  Self-managers Self-managers  Effective participators Effective participators

VCAL and applied pathways  Literacy and numeracy skills  Industry specific skills  Work related skills (including placement)  Personal development skills

Howard Gardners’ 5 Minds for the future  Disciplined  Creative  Ethical  Synthesising  Respectful

The big shift: from bureaucratic hierarchies

To networks

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How does any of this apply to what schools, teachers, students do?  Interaction between curriculum, assessment, pathways  Failure to generate new organisational forms within schooling  Search to connect individual schools with networks of learning opportunity, services, communities  Families as learning environments and participants in learning systems

A new systemic focus? Better learning outcomes Teaching and learning in school Workforce development Learning beyond the classroom Integrated infrastructure Local and community partnerships

Aligning elements of a whole system Better learning outcomes Teaching and learning in school Workforce development Learning beyond the classroom Integrated infrastructure Local and community partnerships Role of local governance and system design Community and employer contributions New learning environments and networks Curriculum, professional development, regulation Accreditation, evaluation, measurement

The next set of challenges?  Assessment for understanding  Open organisational design  Portable learning pathways  Learning networks embedded in wider infrastructure, institutions  Curriculum as design for public expectation and aspiration