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PoLT Online Professional Learning Resource – Principle 4

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Vignettes: Early Years

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Level 2/3 English - The Rap Party: Foundations

Focus Principle 4 Components

4.1 The teacher plans sequences to promote sustained learning that builds over time & to emphasise connections between ideas

4.2 The teacher promotes substantive discussion of ideas

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

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

4.5 The teacher uses strategies to develop problem-solving skills

4.6 The teacher uses strategies to foster imagination & creativity

Links to other Principles/Components

1.1 The teacher builds positive relationships through knowing and valuing each student

1.4 The teacher ensures each student experiences success through structured support, the valuing of effort and recognition of their work

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

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Personal Learning

  • Managing personal learning

Discipline-based Learning

English

  • Reading
  • Speaking and Listening

Topic

 Read the vignette - ‘The Rap Party: Foundations’, Macmillan Publishing

 

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 vignettes, selected from the PEEL in Practice: 1300 ideas for quality teaching database, are provided as further examples of Principle 4 in action.

Details of PEEL and its publication are available at www.peelweb.org.

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Level 1 Humanities - Mindmaps

Focus Principle 4 Component

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

Links to other Principles/Components

1.1 The teacher builds positive relations through knowing and valuing each student

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

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

Discipline-based Learning

Humanities

Science

Interdisciplinary Learning

Thinking Processes

Topic

 Read the vignette - Mindmaps (PDF - 84Kb)

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Level 1 Mathematics - They Repeat: A Mathematics Lesson on Patterns

Focus Principle 4 Components

4.2 The teacher promotes substantive discussion of ideas.

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.

Links to other Principles/Components

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

1.4 The teacher ensures each student experiences success through structured support, the valuing of effort and recognition of their work

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Interpersonal Development

Discipline-based Learning

Mathematics

  • Working mathematically

Interdisciplinary Learning

Thinking Processes

Topic

Read the vignette – They Repeat: A Mathematics Lesson on Patterns (PDF - 29Kb)

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Level 1 English - From Recounting to Reflecting in Prep

Focus Principle 4 Components

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

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

Links to other Principles/Components

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

1.4 The teacher ensures each student experiences success through structured support, the valuing of effort and recognition of their work.

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Interpersonal Development

Discipline-based Learning

English

  • Reading

Interdisciplinary Learning

Communication

Thinking Processes

Topic

Read the vignette – From Recounting to Reflecting in Prep (PDF - 56Kb)

 

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Level 3 Science - The Science in Spoons

Focus Principle 4 Components

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

4.6 The teacher uses skills that foster imagination and creativity.

Links to other Principles/Components

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

6.1 The teacher supports students to engage with contemporary knowledge and practice.

Discipline-based Learning

Science

  • Science knowledge and understanding

Interdisciplinary Learning

Thinking Processes

  • Reasoning, processing and inquiry

Topic

Read the vignette – The Science in Spoons (PDF - 36Kb)

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Level 3 Humanities - Photos in Focus

Focus Principle 4 Components

4.2 The teacher promotes substantive discussion of ideas

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

Links to other Principles/Components

1.1 The teacher builds positive relations through knowing and valuing each student

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

5.1 The teacher designs assessment practices that reflect the full range of learning objectives.

Discipline based Learning

Humanities

  • Humanities skills

Interdisciplinary Learning

Thinking Processes

  • Reasoning, Processing and inquiry

Topic

Read the vignette – Photos in Focus (PDF - 45Kb)