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Text for Principles that underpin key competencies diagram

Active

  • Students are "doing" – applying learning and using learning in meaningful ways
  • Students are generating knowledge through their participation in learning
    (as opposed to just remembering, regurgitating, repeating, recording, waiting, copying)

Real/purposeful

  • Students interact with others in real, authentic contexts
  • Connections are made between learning areas
    (as opposed to classroom-only contexts or in relation only to discreet knowledge areas)

Relevant

  • Learning is relevant to students' lives now and also supports their development as life-long learners
    (as opposed to learning relevant only to a limited range of possibilities from the past)

Empowering

  • There is attention to developing students' learning dispositions – their desire, inclination, and will to learn
    (as opposed to a focus on complying with instructions, reliance on only teacher-directed, teacher-driven, teacher-prompted learning)

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Published on: 14 May 2014


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