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Years 1 - 10 Curriculum Framework

Education Queensland

This framework provides guiding values and principles especially relevant to schools working on issues of boys' education within a gender equity framework:

Education as a social investment
The central purpose of schooling in Queensland - that is, to prepare young people to be active citizens in a learning society - is served by equipping students with the skills and knowledges - cognitive and cultural, social and linguistic - that have power and salience in the world.
Ideal school environments
For students to flourish and become active and reflective Australian citizens with a disposition for lifelong learning, schools must be safe, accepting and disciplined environments.
Futures-oriented curriculum
In deciding what to include in the curriculum, greater value is placed on the knowledges, understandings and skills that will equip students to engage with the future. Networked learning communities enhance a futures orientation.
Differentiation
A creative and flexible educational response to the needs of students (individuals and groups) places a premium on diversity, flexibility, and building the social capital of communities.
High expectations for student achievement and teacher/school development
As learning organisations, schools embrace a culture of high expectations for optimal student learning outcomes, supported by teachers' continuous professional development.

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