Phase One Workshops
Darwin – 18 May 2004
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Outcomes
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Individual Participant Comments
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All young people in the Northern Territory –
and especially Indigenous young people in remote
communities – have access to quality secondary
education
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Any transition to Learning Precincts needs to
be open and people should feel comfortable about
it. Need to be assured that this is something
that the Department is doing properly.
Need to look at the priorities for rural and
remote communities. The focus should be putting
work back into communities.
There needs to be more face-to-face learning
in remote communities.
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All young people have quality teaching and learning
that meets their learning needs at the various
stages of their development
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A good middle-years program will start vocational
education in Year 7.
Like the idea of a two-tiered system – middle
years and senior years.
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All young people have access to support for their
social and emotional needs when they need it
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More young people stay on at school longer and
more complete Year 12
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A shift in orientation from a focus on academic
to more vocational training is fine but it needs
to be done with parents and councils. This can
be difficult when some parents have extraordinarily
high expectations.
Schools would like to offer more subjects but
resources are stretched.
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All young people are well prepared for their
future pathways when they leave school
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Should look at ways to assist Year 9 students
identify choices available to them and help them
become more job ready.
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The Northern Territory community has confidence
in the quality of its secondary education
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Other Comments:
We should be measuring our success and focus on what
needs to be changed. However this can be difficult and
require better data to assist.
Need to look at structure, skills and foundation of
DEET as part of a reform package.
Any changes to the secondary education system should
be cognisant of changes proposed at a national level
for children of Defence Forces.
All ‘end users’ of the secondary education system,
such as the Chamber of Commerce and small businesses,
should participate in the consultation process.
Students from Years 6 and 7 need to be engaged in
discussion about the secondary education report.
Is DEET geared up to support schools for change?
Some of the questions asked in the Reader’s Guide
and Survey are value-laden.
Closing of NTOEC not explicitly addressed in the Reader’s
Guide.
Could web links be created to participants’ home pages?
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