Future Focused Learning

Future focused learning is about effective inquiry learning, which has changed the way we need to plan.
Working collaboratively, we need to identify the big ideas, understandings, and desired skills we want to focus on, with our students' needs and interests driving the direction.
Some guiding questions (ngā pātai ārahi) might be:

What are the learning needs of our students?
What aspects of the big idea interest our students?
What do we want our students to understand about the big idea?
Why do we want them to understand this?
What are the understandings that we want our students to walk away with?

What do we want them to understand about their world, and why do we want them to understand it?

"Future-focused education needs to embrace a much more complex view of knowledge, one that incorporates knowing, doing, and being. Teachers could provide opportunities for students to act on knowledge – relating knowledge to their own lives; sharing knowledge with others; and creating and using knowledge to find solutions to challenges.” tki (2016)