1. Key Competencies

2. What are they? Managing self Relating to others
Participating and contributing
Thinking
Using language, symbols and texts

3. Managing self Self motivation – can – do attitude Sense of belonging
Establish personal goals
Make own well informed choices
Have strategies for meeting challenges
Set high standards for themselves
Act appropriately

4. Relating to others Recognise different points of view Listen actively
Able to negotiate and share ideas
Interact effectively and appropriately in a variety of contexts with a diverse range of people

5. Participating and contributing
Respond appropriately as a group member
Able to make connections with others
Have confidence to participate and contribute actively in their communities (family, interest, culture, learning or work)
Understand the importance of balancing rights roles and responsibilities

6. Thinking
Using creative, critical, metacognitive, and reflective processes to make sense of and question information, experiences and ideas.
Active seekers, users and creators of knowledge
Reflect on own learning, ask questions, and challenge assumptions

7. What is important about them?
Key competencies focus on building dispositions for lifelong learning
The development of greater autonomy/agency as a learner is an important goal
Student voice is valued and active participation in learning is a key competency in itself
 The focus is on how students use knowledge rather than on how much knowledge they have.

8. Using language, symbols and texts
Making meaning of codes in which knowledge is expressed
Can interpret and use words, number, images, movement and technologies in a range of contexts
Knowing each learning area has it’s own language or languages
Using ICT tools confidently for communicating, accessing information and interacting with others

9. Why Key Competencies?
Learning involves the use of knowledge to carry out meaningful tasks – there is a focus on creating and critiquing knowledge, not just “having” it in case it is needed at some future time
Key competencies focus on making links and hence the whole learning context .
Skills are integrated with knowledge, attitudes and values in ways that direct attention to dispositions – the focus is on being ready, willing and able to use skills and knowledge in appropriate ways, at relevant and appropriate times.
The development of a disposition as a lifelong learner is a valued outcome.

10. Which key competency ? (Think, pair, share)
Student self esteem and identity/sense of belonging
Well informed decision making
Resourcefulness and a "can do" attitude
Recognising different points of view
Making connections
Balancing rights, roles, responsibilities
Questioning information, experiences, ideas
Using and creating knowledge
Interpreting representations in a range of contexts
Communicating in appropriate ways

11. What makes them different?
Holistic - integrate knowledge, skills, attitudes and values.
Demonstrated in authentic contexts and in interaction with others.
Demonstrated when we adapt the competency to use appropriately in a new setting.
Consistent with situated and socio-cultural views of learning.
Focus on dispositions

12. So, what can we do to transform learning?
What role might ICT play in this?
What makes them different (e.g. from the “essential skills” of the current curriculum)?
 Do we need to rethink assessment, as well as learning?

13. Key competency
ICT
Thinking
Inspiration – mind mapping
Graphic organisers to help organise information and make meaning
Problem solving activity applications such as Google Sketch Up,
Managing self
Database tools – Excel, Word processing tools
Online rubric makers such as
Participating and contributing
Web 2.0 tools – blogging, podcasting, web based communication tools, IWB
Relating to others
Skype, presentation tools such as Powerpoint, i-movie, Keynote, Moviemaker, Comic life, I Can Animate, Online communication tools
Video conferencing
Virtual learning projects/field trips
Web site applications such as I-Web, Frontpage, Dreamweaver
Using language, movement, symbols and technologies
Presentation tools as above
Photo editing applications such as Photoshop
Publisher or Pages
Kid Pix, Paint, I-Photo, GarageBand
Internet research
Online activities and stories
Activity applications such as PM readers, Numbers Up
Google Earth

14. Difference between KC and Essential Skills
KC are the capabilities people need in order to live, learn, work and contribute as active members of their communities
KC are more complex than skills
KC draw on all resources such as knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values
Opportunities to develop KC occur in social contexts and develop over time
Need to challenge students to develop KCs in contexts that are wide ranging and complex.

15. Do we need to re think assessment as well as learning?
Assessment for learning has a focus on next learning steps
The learning intention/broad goal is clearly signalled
Evidence of successful learning is modelled
Learner is involved in judging their own learning where possible
Key competencies focus on building dispositions for lifelong learning
The development of greater autonomy/agency as a learner is an important goal
Student voice is valued and active participation in learning is a key competency in itself

16. Student involvement in assessment as authentic participation
Students as:
informants on assessment contexts
collectors of evidence
assessment task designers
evaluators of evidence

17. Advantages of greater student involvement in assessment
Consistent with development of dispositions for lifelong learning.
Consistent with focus on metacognition and self regulated learning.
Consistent with intent of all five key competencies (potentially allows for integration).
Potentially makes a space for better assessment of collective work.

18. To think about….
How to transform learning by linking the key competencies
Using appropriate ICT tools to enhance learning
Linking key competencies to assessment
In what ways might they change learning and teaching?
(Think, pair share activity)
Make a list of key ideas which differentiate the essential skills from the key competencies

19. To Do…. In what ways might they change learning and teaching?
(Think, pair share activity)
Make a list of key ideas which differentiate the essential skills from the key competencies
Show how you will link the key competencies and the use of ICT tools into your planning