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CEOM - Contemporary Learning Schema

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The purpose of the Contemporary Learning Schema is to assist leaders and teachers to refl ect on their work and to stimulate dialogue around teaching practice and student learning within the context of their school. The schema provides a platform from which a shared language and way of thinking about teaching and learning can be developed within a school community and ultimately across all schools within the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.

Supporting the Learner Rigorous and relevant learning opportunities lead students to explore and question signifi cant ideas and create new knowledge. When learning is personalised, students’ interests and experiences are valued and refl ected in the curriculum. Learners are supported by explicit and scaffolded teaching to engage fully in their learning. Learning spaces that connect learners to communities beyond the school provide opportunities to engage with diverse perspectives and collaborate with others. Flexible access enables learning anywhere, anytime. When teachers create a climate that promotes inquiry and creative exploration of ideas, learners are supported to engage in deep and powerful learning. Enabling the Learner Contemporary learning gives careful attention to identifying core knowledge, skills and understandings required to be successful in and participate fully in today’s world. Powerful learning opportunities are created for students when core knowledge and skills are integrated across the curriculum in authentic ways. Refl ection, high order thinking, creativity, collaboration and the use of contemporary literacies must now be considered core capacities. These are important for creating new knowledge and participating in and contributing to  community. To successfully participate in and contribute to today’s world, students need to develop culturally relevant and valued literate practices. They need to create and interact with diverse text forms and engage critically and effectively in a multi-modal world. Essential to a contemporary view of literacy is the capacity to communicate appropriately across a range of social contexts.

Engaging in the Contemporary World

Curriculum designed to engage students in the contemporary world leads students to develop deep understandings about themselves, others and the world. Building learning relationships within the global and local community creates authentic opportunities for students to  learn from and with others. Powerful learning experiences enable students to take responsibility for themselves and commit to authentic action. Engagement in the contemporary world enables ongoing personal transformation; a way of discovering God and meaning about self and the world; the potential of the human person and of empowering individuals to be responsible for their lives. In a Catholic school context engagement in the contemporary world through a commitment to action is developed within the framework of a school’s vision which inspires compassion, justice and service.

Contemporary Tools

In this context, contemporary tools are new and emerging technologies that enable culturally valid and relevant practices such as research, publishing, collaboration and design. The use of contemporary tools provides students with fl exible and diverse learning experiences across curriculum areas and enables access to online learning spaces. Learning experiences that incorporate the use of contemporary tools therefore: Enable flexible learning pathways that
 * Respond to diverse needs
 * Develop contemporary literacies
 * Foster communities of learning
 * Enable rich and timely assessments.