What is Tasmania Together?

Tasmania Together is a pioneering project that allows the people of Tasmania to say what they want, and work together to achieve their long-term social, economic and environmental future. As a world-leading system of community goal setting and measurement of progress, Tasmania Together is enshrined in law and used to guide decision-making in the government, business and community sectors. Tasmania Together is a vision for the State based on the wishes of the people.

It includes 12 goals and 143 benchmarks that reflect the concerns people expressed during two of the biggest community consultation processes ever undertaken in Tasmania (in 2000 and 2005). For more information about Tasmania Together, visit the Tasmania Together website.

Why involve students in Tasmania Together?

There are many good reasons why students should be involved in Tasmania Together.

Many of the benchmarks and goals in Tasmania Together affect students, both now and in the future.

Our students are our future citizens and leaders; learning about their community and being involved in civic processes and citizenship activity will bring benefits both to young people and to the communities they will live in and shape into the future.

The Tasmania Together process is built on community consultation, and students are part of our community. This guide provides ideas and advice about developing curriculum programs that involve students:

• Planning and undertaking civic action in their school and local community
• Understanding and using democratic decision making strategies
• Examining the identified issues, goals and benchmarks of Tasmania Together as part of curriculum studies in a diverse range of areas.

How does this 'fit' with the Tasmanian Curriculum?

The vision expressed in Tasmania Together supports the values and purposes in the Tasmanian Curriculum.

Involving students in using Tasmania Together data, issues and processes will enable students to achieve outcomes in all areas of the Tasmanian Curriculum. Most goals and benchmarks relate to issues that could be studied across the curriculum; for example "Goal 11: Built and natural heritage that is valued and protected" could be the subject of study in Society and History, Science or Vocational and Applied Learning.