Future Pathways

Senior Studies Program

Overview

The Future Pathways Senior Studies Program (Year 11 – Year 12) prepares the adolescent to transition into adult life by building pathways to employment or further education.

Personalised learning programs are developed alongside the adolescent with a curriculum that has a global outlook and utilises experts from the field.

The Future Pathways Senior Studies Program aims to assist young adults who:

eagerly tackle academic and personal challenges
are compassionate collaborators
are mindful of ethics and morals in their decision making
confidently work with specialists in the wider community and willingly engage in community service
engage in thoughtful research and critical thinking to actively and creatively solve problems
take action in their world for a more sustainable future and just society.

During this time, students undertake study and learning which extends beyond the MIC campus to include TAFE at Schools, Headstart courses at University, apprenticeships, or traineeships.

Students in their final years of secondary experience have greater levels of freedom, responsibility and independence.

The MIC Future Pathways Senior Studies Program is comprised of two interconnected parts

that are studied together to create an independent adult.

The Future Pathways Senior Studies program is personalised for each student and begins during the SET Plan process in Year 10. During the SET Planning period, students, staff and parents work together to design a course of study while considering their interests, abilities and future goals. Academic subjects selected for completion over Years 11 and 12 forms the foundation of the Senior Statement.

QCAA Subjects and ATAR eligibility

Applied and Applied (Essential) Syllabuses

Applied subjects are suited to students who are primarily interested in pathways beyond senior secondary schooling that lead to vocational education, training and work.

General Syllabuses

General subjects are suited to students who are interested in pathways beyond senior secondary schooling that lead primarily to tertiary studies and to pathways for vocational education and training and work.

Underpinning factors

All senior syllabuses are underpinned by:

· Literacy

The set of knowledge and skills about language and texts essential for understanding and conveying content.

· Numeracy

The knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that students need to use mathematics in a wide range of situations, to recognise and understand the role of mathematics in the world, and to develop the dispositions and capacities to use mathematical knowledge and skills purposefully.

Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) eligibility

The calculation of an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) will be based on a student’s:

· best five General subject results or

· best results in a combination of four General subject results + an Applied subject result, OR a Certificate III, OR higher VET qualification.

The Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) has responsibility for ATAR calculations.

English requirement

Eligibility for an ATAR will require satisfactory completion of a QCAA English subject.

Satisfactory completion will require students to attain a result that is equivalent to a Sound Level of Achievement in one of five subjects — English, Essential English, Literature, English and Literature Extension or English as an Additional Language.

While students must meet this standard to be eligible to receive an ATAR, it is not mandatory for a student’s English result to be included in the calculation of their ATAR.

Source: QCAA 2019

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