PoLT Online Professional Learning Resource – Principle 2
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Vignettes: Early Years
Level 2 Health and PE - Safety
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
4.4 The teacher uses strategies that challenge and support students to question and reflect.
6.1 The teacher supports student to engage with contemporary knowledge and practice.
Physical, personal and social learning
Health and Physical Education
- Health knowledge and promotion
Civics and Citizenship
- Civics knowledge and understanding
Topic
Read the vignette - Safety
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 vignette, selected from the PEEL in Practice: 1300 ideas for quality teaching database, is provided as a further example of Principle 2 in action.
Details of PEEL and its publication are available at www.peelweb.org.
Level 3 Mathematics - Problem Solving Toolbox
Focus Principle 2 Component
2. 1. Encourages and supports students to take responsibility for their learning
Links to other Principles/Components
1. The learning environment is supportive and productive.
4. Students are challenged and supported to develop deep levels of thinking and application.
Discipline-based learning
Mathematics
- Working mathematically
Interdisciplinary learning
Thinking Processes
- Reasoning, processing and inquiry
Topic
Read the vignette – Problem Solving Toolbox (PDF - 51Kb)