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Vignettes – Early Years

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Levels 2/3 Design, Creativity and Technology - Inventions

Focus Principle 3 Components

3.1 The teacher uses strategies that are flexible and responsive to the values, needs and interests of individual students

3.2 The teacher uses strategies that support the different ways of thinking and learning

3.3 The teacher builds on students’ prior experiences, knowledge and skills

3.4 The teacher capitalizes on students experiences of a technology rich world

Links to other Principles/Components

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

4.4 The teacher uses strategies that challenge and support students to question and reflect.

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

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Personal Learning

  • The individual learner
  • Managing personal learning

Interdisciplinary Learning

Design, Creativity and Technology

  • Analysing and evaluating

Topic

 Read the vignette - Inventions

 

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

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 3 in action.

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

 

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Level 3 Civics and Citizenship - Graffiti Sheets in the Classroom

Focus Principle 3 Component

3.3. Builds on students’ prior experiences, knowledge and skills.

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.

5. Assessment practices are an integral part of learning and teaching.

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Civics and Citizenship

  • Civic knowledge and understanding

Interdisciplinary Learning

Thinking Processes

  • Reasoning, processing and inquiry

Topic

Read the vignette - Graffiti Sheets in the Classroom (PDF - 44Kb)