This curriculum area helps you think about who you are - from your name, through to your history, your values and how you tell your story about yourself to date.
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This curriculum area focuses on you developing your personal identity and personal brand to create the future you, and start to manage how people will perceive you in the future.
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Most people haven't a clue what they want to do for a career, and hence tend to accidentally fall into something. This curriculum area helps you narrow down the field of what you might want to do, and explore different options. It also explains the 7 job clusters of the Foundation for Young Australians research and how to consider these in creating your future.
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What vision of the future do you want to see occur and how can you start living that future to contribute to its occurrence? This area of curriculum explores trends, scenarios and other foresight methodologies to help you consider possible futures that you might experience, and how you can influence their occurrence.
This is great to do before you start your Courage Quests, or if you get stuck for ideas about what to do for a Courage Quest as it gets you thinking about changes you want to happen for the future you prefer to occur.
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This course helps you understand what 'being courageous' means to you, so you can define courage in terms meaningful to you, rather than at the judgement of others, and take courageous steps - rather than leaps of faith - in a manner that allows you to succeed rather than risk failure.
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This curriculum explores differences - from why we see the world differently, to how we use difference to discriminate between people, and how this in turn can lead to bullying. The curriculum challenges you to explore your biases so you can celebrate diversity more fully, and support people who are being marginalised for their point of difference.
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This curriculum area will explore several areas of digital technology, its societal impact and, through practical means, practice resilience, fact checking, creativity and broadcasting content you have created or found.
In such a dynamic digital environment it is important to master current skills and work practices as a baseline for further adaptation in the years and decades to come.
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We will learn that financial literacy is more than a simple binary equation but it is worth stating the obvious.
You can’t spend what you don’t have. Well, in a way you can – it’s called a credit card. But the most basic financial rule by which to live your life is ‘Spend less than you earn’. Stick to that and you’ll most likely have a secure financial life.
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Through the process of reflective practice, this curriculum area focusses you on taking time out to look back at what happened in a specific situation, consider how you behaved and what the outcome was, consider what you might have preferred the outcome to be and then look forwards in terms of how you will change your behaviour in future to achieve a more preferred outcome.
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This gives you a quick introduction to The Inventorium and has a short quiz to make sure you know your away around and how it works prior to you getting started. You get 20 bonus coins for completing it correctly!
This curriculum area explores what it is to be an entrepreneur. The word is massively overused, and there is a difference between being self-employed, a small business, an innovator and an entrepreneur. Not everyone has to be an entrepreneur, but everyone ought to know where their entrepreneurial boundaries are, so they know when they are happy to take an entrepreneurial risk, and when to walk away.
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The Upstart Challenge is an Entrepreneurial Program and Business Ideas competition for high school students aimed at building an entrepreneurial culture and fostering strong relationships between students, educators, industry and the community. Upstart builds skills and experience to help our young people make their mark in the new economy. This section takes you through some of the challenge curriculum they use in order to help you generate and develop ideas.
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How to get people wanting to know more about what you're doing after 60-90 seconds!
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Design Thinking is a way of solving complex problems through the design
of products, services or systems. Design Thinkers draw on the expertise
of several different fields, and uses a combination of creative thinking
and logic to work towards a solution.
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This courses follows on from Design Thinking and explores the processes of prototyping and testing of ideas.
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This area explorex the viability of starting a small business to meet a need in a community. In essence it is exploring the problem of lack of availability of something, and testing the viability of the solution of opening a business to meet the market need.
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When starting a business, it is important to know the different ways to go about doing it. One way is through writing a business plan. Another is to create a Lean Canvas.
The Lean Canvas is a 1-page business plan template created by Ash Maurya that helps you deconstruct your business idea into its key assumptions using 9 building blocks.
Compared to writing a business plan which can take several weeks or months, you can outline multiple possible business models on a Lean Canvas in a much shorter time.
A single page business model is also much easier to share with others and also easier and faster to read.
Because life is too short to build something nobody wants.
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This area of curriculum considers how you can engage in community projects and have a positive impact on their futures. Much of it is design to support you in planning your communications, and then engaging in communications, and then evaluating to check you communicated what you wanted to, and it was received in the right way. This might sound like it is dragging out a simple task, but miscommunication can occur so easily when we think we've said one thing but people have heard something else - particularly in communities that might have their own assumptions and meanings that you are not yet party to.
Dip in and out of this curriculum area as you need to. You'll find different bits helpful at different points in time and are not expected to work through this from start to finish.
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You only get to make a first impression once, so it is important to make sure that first impression is the one you want it to be. This topic helps you prepare and try out different introductions for different situations so you have appropriate introductions ready for any situation.
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This curriculum area involves in you reflecting on and then testing out how others perceive you. This will give you feedback as to whether people think you are the person you think you are, so you can manage any gaps in perception.
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This curriculum area looks at the activities involved in putting a team together, with a particular focus on your Courage Quest teams. The lessons are transferable to any team you need to put together, including those in the workplace, and involves recruiting and selecting your team.
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This curriculum area covers the processes involved in team working. It includes issues such as dealing with conflict, and managing the natural changes that occur within teams so that teams remain functional throughout the Courage Quest processes, or in a workplace when staff members change.
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This curriculum area guides you in leading a Courage Quest team, introducing you to leadership, and supporting you through the leadership roles and routines you will need to complete a Courage Quest as team leader.
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Managing a project usually means managing what other people are doing in order to meet deadlines and work together to achieve an outcome. Not everyone needs to be in the same team - you can have different teams and people doing different bits of a project. The role of the project manager is to hold it all together, and this curriculum area explores different methods for doing this. Someone will need to project manage the Courage Quest activities - so you will probably find yourself taking this role at some point in your studies.
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This area of curriculum focuses on and develops your research and learning skills using the example of the critical area of Sustainability, and then getting you to apply them to questions you want answered. This curriculum is developed in partnership with Cool Australia and there is the opportunity for the outcomes that you develop in this area to be utilised by Cool Australia in their education program - hence you can help others to learn in the future.
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This curriculum area covers the very practical reality of actually getting a job, from the point of deciding which jobs to apply for, through the application process, interview and references to negotiating the contract.
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This course in an introduction to The Inventorium, including the thinking that has gone into the design of The Inventorium, how it works, a guide to using it, and challenges this may pose to you as teachers.