The model
The twelve future capabilities are the dispositions WSA develops alongside knowledge: curiosity, critical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, adaptability, emotional intelligence, systems thinking, digital and AI fluency, entrepreneurial thinking and self-direction.
Its role
They are developed through real work in the Worlds, never taught as a separate course, and never offered as a substitute for academic knowledge.
Relationships
Each World develops particular capabilities most strongly; each Exploration names the ones genuinely in play; mastery is recorded per capability, not per child.
In practice
Systems thinking is not a lesson. It is what a child is doing when they realise that changing the gear ratio fixes the hill and ruins the flat.
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Follow the Interest
Follow the Interest is the WSA method in which a child's genuine fascination becomes the starting point for se…
Interest Pathways
An Interest Pathway is the structured route by which a single interest opens into multiple fields of knowledge…
The 10 Worlds
The ten Worlds are WSA's permanent knowledge architecture: ten interconnected fields through which any interes…
The Atelier Path
The Atelier Path is the personalised route one child takes through the Worlds, shaped by what they have actual…
What is WSA?
The whole model in one place.