Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia are immersed in preparing for the arrival of graduates of the BC new high school curriculum in 2020. Over the next two years KPU will develop orientation modules and training to prepare faculty and to familiarize them with the changes in the new curriculum. While the content of that curriculum does not deviate from current content the manner in which young students engage with that content may be new pedagogical territory for post-secondary instructors across the province.
Our opportunity is to devise and enable a seamless transition from high school to university. This will require an understanding of the manner in which students coming out of this curriculum will have had an opportunity to be agents of their own learning paths and able to have more of a say in what they wish to explore throughout their educational journey.
The new curriculum aligns well with university methods and standards that nurture an ability to research, analyze, synthesize and communicate. Theoretical, technical, social and personal competencies, core elements of our overall polytechnic university learning approach, are central to the new K-12 curriculum. We must build bridges across this educational transition to university while providing a framework and pedagogical tools to allow for a smooth transition that may enhance renewal of our own delivery models.
KPU educators are driven to excel. Through the ongoing and dynamic support of our Teaching and Learning Commons we will unleash an active program of professional development with a special emphasis on reinforcing faculty capacity to embrace and help shape BC’s pedagogical future.
Goal 8: Prepare KPU for the incoming graduates of the BC K-12 new curriculum
Strategy 8.1
Future KPU students will express their achievement in new and diverse ways.To continue to lead in this field, KPU will review its approach to university admission.
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Strategy 8.2
KPU’s polytechnic and applied focus will be increasingly important as these values become more prominent in K-12 education. The university will support professional development on competency- and e-portfolio-based teaching and learning.
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Strategy 8.3
KPU will review programs in light of the changing educational climate in order to maintain currency. Opportunities to increase and recognize co-curricular and extracurricular learning will be a central feature of 21st century education.
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Strategy 8.4
KPU will embed best practices in e-portfolio training and development to enhance the practice of assessment, facilitate admissions and provide powerful tools for learners to successfully demonstrate their learning to future employers and graduate admissions.
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Strategy 8.5
We will dismantle boundaries between faculties, and between academic and vocational programming to enable a more permeable flow between areas. Students educated in a system oriented to problem solving such as the BC K-12 curriculum should not expect walls between trades and undergraduate study.
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Strategy 8.6
New digital support systems will be established to help students and faculty collect and curate work and assessment feedback that transcends individual courses.
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Strategy 8.7
KPU will continue to promote the recognition of prior learning, and learning undertaken outside of the formal classroom.
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