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Dimension: Managing personal learning

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Curriculum documents
Goal setting
Personal learning Skills
Self-assessment

Focus: goal setting; skills and strategies for effective LOTE learning; ideas for self-evaluation of learning.

Resources:

• curriculum documents from VCAA and DEECD
• student worksheets about goal setting and languages learning skills
• links to websites with ideas for time and resource management

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Curriculum documents

http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/personal/index.html
VCAA: Personal Learning Standard

http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/support/progression/personal.html
VCAA: Personal Learning Progression Points

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/personallearning/default.htm
Principles behind the Personal Learning Domain

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/personallearning/default.htm
DEECD Personal Learning domain page

http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/support/maps/personal/index.html
VCAA: Personal learning Assessment Maps with annotated student work samples

http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/personal/index.html#personal
Strategies to support personal learning

Student Learning Advice on setting personal learning goals.pdf
Produced by DEECD Student Learning Division

Goal setting

LOTE Goal Setting.doc
Personal learning goals in LOTE.doc
Developed by Stewart Milner, LOTE Project Officer Western Metropolitan Region

http://www.habitsofmind.org/
An Australian website for teachers who wish to incorporate Costa's Habits of Mind in their programs. Includes teaching strategies and classroom resources.

Personal learning skills

General resources

How to be a good language learner (ppt 78KB)

LOTE Personal Learning Strategies (doc 76KB)

Personal Learning Skills (doc 39KB)

Links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/extra/module3/1.shtml
An online tutorial for students about time management skills.

http://esl.fis.edu/learners/advice/index.htm
http://esl.fis.edu/
Advice to ESL students about being a good language learner: can apply to LOTE. Aimed at secondary students.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/extra/module2/1.shtml
Online tutorial for students, about research skills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/extra/module6/1.shtml
Online tutorial for students about compiling a bibliography.

http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/
An online tutorial from Canada for students about avoiding plagiarism

http://amow.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/index.html
Online information for senior students about avoiding plagiarism from NSW Board of Studies

Self-assessment

General resources

UK Guide to Self Assessment (pdf 1.2 MB)
Ideas and strategies for students evaluating their own learning

Example of student self-assessment (pdf 45KB)
This example was created by John Waite from Eumemmerring Secondary College

LOTE Personal Learning checklist (doc 85KB)
An example of an end of semester personal learning evaluation.

Sample student self-assessment rubric (doc 80KB)
A sample rubric integrating cross-domain skills, for a typical LOTE task.

Links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/extra/portfolio/portfolio_01.shtml
The BBC website offers online tutorials for students to hone key skills for application across the curriculum. This online module focuses on putting together a portfolio as evidence of learning.

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