The Rich Tasks
Rich Tasks are the outward and visible sign of student engagement with the New Basics curriculum framework. They are the assessable and reportable outcomes of a curriculum plan that prepares students for the challenges of life in 'new times'.
The Rich Task is a reconceptualisation of the notion of outcome as demonstration or display of mastery; that is, students display their understandings, knowledges and skills through performance on transdisciplinary activities that have an obvious connection to the wide world.
The Rich Task is but one component of the New Basics Framework. A set of Rich Tasks, in conjunction with the New Basics categories as curriculum organisers and with Productive Pedagogies, is Education Queensland's attempt to empower and encourage teachers, unclutter the curriculum, up the ante intellectually, deliver fewer alienated students, prepare students for a future in an uncertain world, and position the classroom within the global village. The progressive reporting on Rich Task outcomes within the New Basics Framework is providing the most elaborate portrait of student achievement over time in the compulsory years of schooling ever attempted in Australia.
Rich Tasks are the outward and visible sign of student engagement with the New Basics curriculum framework. They are the assessable and reportable outcomes of a three-year curriculum plan that prepares students for the challenges of life in 'new times'.
The Rich Task is a reconceptualisation of the notion of outcome as demonstration or display of mastery; that is, students display their understandings, knowledges and skills through performance on transdisciplinary activities that have an obvious connection to the wide world.
The Rich Task is but one component of the New Basics Framework. A set of Rich Tasks, in conjunction with the New Basics categories as curriculum organisers and with Productive Pedagogies, is Education Queensland's attempt to empower and encourage teachers, unclutter the curriculum, up the ante intellectually, deliver fewer alienated students, prepare students for a future in an uncertain world, and position the classroom within the global village. Reporting on Rich Task outcomes within the New Basics Framework is to provide the most elaborate portrait of student achievement over nine years of schooling ever attempted in Australia.
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Rich Tasks booklets
The third booklet for teachers in trial schools covers:
- why we have Rich Tasks;
- what they are individually and as a collection;
- how they were developed;
- how they are planned for and experienced;
- how they are assessed and reported on; and
- when all these things happen.
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