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Gonski 2.0: Major changes urged to overhaul education curriculum in Australia

byMark Bowling
2 May 2018 - Updated on 1 April 2021
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Changes: “Catholic education strongly supports the report’s recommendations that reduce the administrative and reporting burden on teachers and principals to ensure more time for their own professional learning and instructional leadership.” Photo: Austockphoto

THE Catholic education sector has welcomed sweeping changes recommended in the latest Gonski 2.0 report that advocates an overhaul of Australia’s school curriculum over five years.

The National Catholic Education Commission said the report reflected many of the strategies identified in Catholic sector submissions including recommendations to ensure a strong foundation for the early years of schooling and a stronger focus on critical thinking, creativity and complex problem-solving.

“This will require broad-based assessment and performance measures that teachers can use to inform their teaching and learning programs,” NCEC’s acting executive director Ray Collins said.

“Catholic education strongly supports the report’s recommendations that reduce the administrative and reporting burden on teachers and principals to ensure more time for their own professional learning and instructional leadership.”

Among the changes, businessman David Gonski wants to see the national curriculum progressively revised over five years to create a roadmap setting out progressive learning steps in each subject.

Teachers should also be prioritising literacy and numeracy to ensure students have the core basics before they turn eight, allowing a smooth transition between early childhood learning and school.

An overarching recommendation would ensure each student achieves a year’s worth of learning for each year at school.

“To achieve this shift to growth, the review panel believes it is essential to move from a year-based curriculum to a curriculum expressed as learning progressions independent of year or age,” the report says.

Mr Collins described this recommendation as a commendable goal “which will make it absolutely necessary to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy and distractions to learning and teaching, and will have critical implications for the resourcing and funding of schools and systems”.

Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham is hopeful a new reform agreement can be negotiated with state education counterparts this year, allowing changes to be implemented from 2019.

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Mr Collins described that timeline as challenging, “largely because of its reliance on the co-operation of all sectors and governments”.

Many of the recommendations relied on reform at the school or classroom level, which required appropriate support, resources and local leadership.

“Central to the successful implementation of the recommendations is the recognition of the needs of school systems – such as the Catholic system, the nation’s largest provider of schooling outside government – to have the necessary autonomy to address need,” Mr Collins said.

“It’s a big challenge that will require a significant commitment from all governments and we hope that the upcoming federal budget will reflect the costs involved in implementing these proposed reforms, as well the recommendations from the recent report into regional, rural and remote education.”

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Mark is the joint winner of the Australian Variety Club 2000 Heart Award for his radio news reporting in East Timor, and has also won a Walkley award, Australia’s most-respected journalism award. Mark is the author of ‘Running Amok’ that chronicles his time as a foreign correspondent juggling news deadlines and the demands of being a husband and father. Mark is married with four children.

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