Our goal is that when students leave the College, they are confident life-long learners who love continual learning. The development of the Learner Profile will give them the confidence to achieve this.

Development of the Learner Profile supports the important core disciplines or subject areas. Extensive work continues in literacy, numeracy and how these core skills, along with the Learner Profile, are embedded and taught in unison.

At the end of Term 1, Principal Andy Müller updated the community of some of the 22 strategic projects that are now underway as a part of our SOC2035 Strategic Vision.

Andy mentions just some of the projects underway:

• The introduction of the Scotch Oakburn Learner Attributes – the soft skills and ways of thinking that are required for students to get the most from their learning experiences.
• The quest to create our own Learner Profile – a succinct representation of the whole learner, who they are, what skills, knowledge and values they have developed to the point in time when […]
  

Reimagining Education – Learner Profile and Learner Attributes

In this seven-part video series, learn how Scotch Oakburn College is tackling this subject as we reimagine education so that students thrive in the 21st Century.

1.  What is the Learner Profile?

2.  What are the 10 Learner Attributes?

Now you’ve learnt more about what the Learner Profile actually is, in our second video we introduce you to all 10 attributes.

In coming weeks:

Reimagining Education – Learner Profile and Learner Attributes

A Video Series

For students to thrive they need to become expert learners. They need to acquire a body of knowledge, skills, attributes and values that enable them to adapt and contribute in an ever-changing environment.

The skills, or capabilities for learning, include the basics of literacy, numeracy and the use of information and communication technology. More than this, they also encompass broader social skills of communication, collaboration and ethical behaviour and the ability to perform in an intercultural environment.

For learners to develop these skills or capabilities, the organisation of learning must provide students with […]

Scotch Oakburn College has started its quest to look for better ways to represent students, along with 36 other Australian schools and in a Research-Practice Partnership with the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

“New Metrics for Success” seeks to transform what we value in schools. To reform the organisation of learning so that new learning ambitions can be realised needs new ways to track learner success. The collaboration project seeks to provide a better basis for assessing and improving learning. New metrics for learner success can be used to design […]