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PoLT Online Professional Learning Resource – Principle 3

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Students’ needs, backgrounds, perspectives and interests are reflected in the learning program

A range of strategies is used to monitor and respond to students’ different learning needs, social needs, and cultural perspectives. Students’ lives and interests are reflected in the learning sequences. A variety of teaching strategies are used to accommodate the range of abilities and interests, and to encourage diversity and autonomy.

In learning environments that reflect this principle the teacher:

  • 3.1 uses strategies that are flexible and responsive to the values, needs and interests of individual students
  • 3.2 uses a range of strategies that support the different ways of thinking and learning
  • 3.3 builds on students' prior experiences, knowledge and skills
  • 3.4 capitalises on students' experience of a technology rich world.