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PoLT Online Professional Learning Resource – Principle 4

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

Students are challenged to explore, question and engage with significant ideas and practices, so that they move beyond superficial understandings to develop higher order, flexible thinking. To support this, teaching sequences should be sustained and responsive and explore ideas and practices.

In learning environments that reflect this principle the teacher:

  • 4.1 plans sequences to promote sustained learning that builds over time and emphasises connections between ideas
  • 4.2 promotes substantive discussion of ideas
  • 4.3 emphasises the quality of learning with high expectations of achievement
  • 4.4 uses strategies that challenge and support students to question and reflect
  • 4.5 uses strategies to develop investigating and problem solving skills
  • 4.6 uses strategies to foster imagination and creativity.