Extensive community consultation has led to values, purposes and goals that provide a firm foundation for providing Tasmanian students with a quality education. How schools enact these is guided by dialogue between the school and its community. They will be seen in the school’s curriculum programs, philosophy, classrooms and relationships.
Values
Values guide decisions about the curriculum. They support students, teachers, parents, carers and the community. The values common to all areas of the Tasmanian Curriculum are:
- connectedness - developing a sense of community through friendship, care, compassion,
- cooperation, acceptance, belonging and sharing
- resilience - developing self-confidence and self-respect, optimism, perseverance and wellbeing
- achievement - attaining success, pursuing excellence and being proud of personal achievement
- creativity - valuing original ideas and demonstrating enterprise and innovation.
- integrity - acting honestly, ethically, and consistently
- responsibility - accepting individual and collective responsibility and contributing to sustainable community development
- equity - developing tolerance, respecting difference and encouraging distinctiveness.
Purposes
The shared purposes are that all Tasmanian students are learning to:
- learn
- live full, healthy lives
- relate, participate and care
- act ethically
- create purposeful futures, and
- think, know and understand.
Goals
The shared goals for Tasmanian students are that they:
- are able to reason, question, make decisions and solve complex problems
- are able to create, communicate and convey ideas clearly and confidently
- have a positive vision for themselves and their future
- are well prepared to participate actively in our democratic community and as global citizens, and
- can understand science and technology and make thoughtful decisions about their application.
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