Submission to the Productivity Commission’s Interim Report on Building a Skilled and Adaptable Workforce

Submission at a glance

1. Achieving written curriculum quality is a necessary step for long-term success
a. Research endorses a knowledge-rich curriculum
b. But curriculum approaches across Australia are diverse
c. Recommendations
2. Improving enacted curriculum resources is important but must be carefully implemented
a. Current approaches to enacted curriculum leave gaps b. Recommendations
3. Any new quality assurance body should focus on learning interventions
a. Teachers have little guidance in a high stakes area of decision-making b. Recommendations
4. EdTech and AI adoption needs a purpose-before-platform approach
a. Productive teacher uses of AI are limited
b. Student uses of AI are highly risky
c. Recommendations
5. Appendix A: Lesson plan generated by Anthropic’s Claude 4.0 Sonnet