Why should I study Activating Identities and Futures?
Activating Identities and Futures is a compulsory requirement of the SACE at Stage 2.
This subject gives you the opportunity to study an area of interest, so that you can take greater ownership and agency over your learning (learning how to learn). It requires creativity and initiative, as you select relevant strategies (knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do) to explore, create and/or plan towards your chosen learning output or goal. This subject will allow you to develop independent learning skills that will be useful to you, whether you go into work or further training and study.
Where does Activating Identities and Futures lead?
Studying this course will contribute towards your SACE and ATAR. It will also provide invaluable research, report writing and analytical skills required for further study.
What work will I do in Activating Identities and Futures?
In this subject, you will explore ideas related to an area of personal interest. This subject allows you to choose any topic you are interested in learning about, and through a process of self-directed inquiry, discover more by creating and working towards a learning goal.
The portfolio gives you an opportunity to comment on your learning and identify key strategies you will use to learn, through drawing on knowledge, skills and capabilities developed throughout your education, to progress your learning towards a specific resolution.
You will learn valuable skills that will help you plan, discover and judge if the learning is useful, or of a high quality in promoting your learning goal.
In your portfolio, you can investigate a range of different secondary resources, make your own surveys and interviews, or conduct practical activities to practice skills relevant to your learning goal.
You will also need to seek feedback from others to check that what you are learning will help you achieve your learning goal. While you are researching and learning, you will need to carry out at least two progress checks, where you will assess the learning you have done so far.
Finally, once you have an output of learning, you will need to reflect and make judgements about what you have learnt and achieved towards your learning goal. The focus of this appraisal is about the skills and knowledge you have gained throughout your learning goal, and whether the strategies you have used for your learning were successful.
What do other students think about Activating Identities and Futures?
Now that I am at university, I understand why Activating Identities and Futures is a compulsory subject. At university, in every subject I have to write some kind of report. The knowledge and skills I gained from doing Activating Identities and Futures last year has assisted me. For example, referencing was one of my strengths which I developed mostly in Activating Identities and Futures class.
I used my source analysis skills I developed last year to evaluate the sources I had used in one of my engineering technical reports which was worth 15% of the assignment. The outcome from last year’s Activating Identities and Futures taught me how to structure and write the main body of my reports. If you have done Activating Identities and Futures, you will have no issue writing reports at uni.
Where can I find more information about Activating Identities and Futures?
For more detail about content and assessment, view the course information:
- Stage 1 (Year 11)
- Stage 2 (Year 12)