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A POWERFUL documentary revealing the growing shortcomings of conventional education methods in today’s world will be screened in Millicent this month.
Hosted by St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School, the “Most Likely To Succeed” film night will explore compelling new approaches to revolutionise learning.
The feature-length film seeks to inspire school communities to reimagine what students and teachers are capable of achieving.
Acting principal Suzanne Budd said the school had already adopted some of the documentary’s thinking into its teaching and learning program.
“Most Likely To Succeed is a documentary which looks at the different ways teaching can be more engaging, purposeful, meaningful and hands on for students,” she said.
“You are working with skilled professionals, as well as researching the particular topic of work you are working on or creating.
“It does not even have to be a ‘making project’ – it could be something else such as a drama, play or anything like that.
“The pedagogy presented in this documentary is more purposeful because students actually present their work and that’s a big part of it.
“At the end of the year all students have to showcase, present or perform all of what they have worked on throughout the year.
“This year we have a new subject called ‘design thinking’ where we are hoping to utilise our specific expertise, resources and facilities to offer the students a curriculum which they have traditionally had only small experiences with, or has been very limited.
“As a summary, we are hoping to explore its potential to integrate curriculum learning areas with an additional and explicit focus on the general capabilities, something, which is becoming increasingly vital to understand.”
Teacher and leader of learning Julian Rebellato will open the evening with a preamble about his ideas and design thinking surrounding STEM work.
Community members are invited to attend the free event, which will be held at the Millicent Civic and Arts Centre on March 20 at 6.30pm.
There will be tea, coffee and supper provided by St Anthony’s parents and friends committee before the documentary commences.
