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)