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Vignettes: Later Years

 

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Level 6 The Arts - Political Cartoons

Focus Principle 2 Components

2.1 The teacher encourages and supports students to take responsibility for their learning

2.2 The teacher uses strategies that build skills of productive collaboration

Links to other Principles/Components

4. Students are challenged and supported to develop deep levels of thinking and application.

Physical, personal and social learning

Personal Learning

  • The individual learner

Civics and Citizenship

  • Civics knowledge and understanding

Discipline-based learning

The Arts

  • Exploring and responding

English

  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Speaking and Listening

Interdisciplinary learning

Thinking

  • Reasoning, processing and inquiry

Topic

  Read the vignette - Political Cartoons

 

Further examples from 'Project for Enhancing Effective Learning' (PEEL)

Since 1985, teachers in the 'Project for Enhancing Effective Learning' have been researching ways of stimulating and supporting learning that is more informed, purposeful, intellectually active and independent.

The following vignettes, selected from the PEEL in Practice: 1300 ideas for quality teaching database, are provided as  further examples of Principle 2 in action.

Details of PEEL and its publication are available at PEEL (http://www.peelweb.org). 

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Level 6 Science - Deduce the practical design from Limited Information

Focus Principle 2 Components

2.1 The teacher encourages and supports students to take responsibility for their learning

2.2 The teacher uses strategies that build skills of productive collaboration

Links to other Principles/Components

4.1 The teacher plans sequences that promote sustained learning that builds over time and emphasises connections between ideas.

4.5 The teacher uses strategies to develop investigating and problem-solving skills.

Physical, personal and social learning

Interpersonal Development

  • Working in teams

Discipline-based learning

Science

  • Science knowledge and understanding

Interdisciplinary learning

Thinking Processes

  • Reflection, evaluation and metacognition

Topic

  Read the vignette - Deduce the Practical Design from Limited Information (PDF - 39Kb) 

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Level 6 Interpersonal Relationships - Boundaries in a Relationship

Focus Principle 2 Components

2.1 The teacher encourages and supports students to take responsibility for their learning

2.2 The teacher uses strategies that build skills of productive collaboration.

Links to other Principles/Components

1.3 The teacher uses strategies that promote students’ self-confidence and willingness to take risks with their learning.

Physical, personal and social learning

Interpersonal Development

  • Building social relationships

Health and Physical Education

  • Health knowledge and promotion

Interdisciplinary learning

Thinking

  • Reasoning, processing and inquiry

Topic

  Read the vignette – Boundaries in a Relationship (PDF - 35Kb)

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Level 6 The Arts - Working with Texts in Drama

Focus Principle 2 Components

2.1 The teacher encourages and supports students to take responsibility for their learning

2.2 The teacher uses strategies that build skills of productive collaboration

Links to other Principles/Components

1.3 The teacher uses strategies that promote students’ self-confidence and willingness to take risks with their learning

5.4 The teacher uses assessment practices that encourage reflection and self-assessment.

Physical, personal and social learning

Interpersonal Development

  • Working in teams

Personal Learning

  • Managing personal learning

Discipline-based learning

The Arts

  • Exploring and responding

Interdisciplinary learning

Communication

  • Presenting

Thinking processes

  • Creativity

Topic

 Read the vignette – Working with Texts in Drama (PDF - 25Kb)

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Level 6 The Arts - Negotiated Assessment

Focus Principle 2 Component

2.1 The teacher encourages and supports students to take responsibility for their learning

Links to other Principles

5.3 The teacher uses strategies that promote students’ self-confidence and willingness to take risks with their learning

5.4 The teacher makes assessment criteria explicit.

Physical, personal and social learning

Personal Learning

  • Managing personal learning

Discipline-based learning

The Arts

  • Creating and making

Interdisciplinary learning

Communication

  • Presenting

Thinking Processes

  • Creativity

Topic

Read the vignette – Negotiated Assessment (PDF - 65Kb)

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Level 6 LOTE - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Focus Principle 2 Component

2.1 The teacher encourages and supports students to take responsibility for their learning

Links to other Principles/Components

5.4 The teacher makes assessment criteria explicit.

Physical, personal and social learning

Personal Learning

  • Managing personal learning

Discipline-based learning

LOTE

  • Communicating in a LOTE

Interdisciplinary learning

Communication

  • Listening, viewing and responding

Thinking processes

  • Reflection, evaluation and metacognition

Topic

 Read the vignette – Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (PDF - 40Kb)

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ICT - Providing Students with Feedback on Progress

Focus Principle 2 Component

2.1 The teacher encourages and supports students to take responsibility for their learning

Links to other Principles/Components

3.4 The teacher capitalises on students’ knowledge of a technology-rich world

4.3 The teacher emphasises the quality of learning with high expectations of achievement

6.3 The teacher makes assessment criteria explicit.

Topic

Read the vignette – Providing Students with Feedback on Progress (PDF - 38Kb)