PoLT Online Professional Learning Resource – Principle 6
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Learning connects strongly with communities and practice beyond the classroom
Student’s learning needs to connect with their current and future lives, and with contemporary thinking in the broader community. A variety of links are made between the classroom program and the local and broader community, leading to students developing a rich view of knowledge and practice, including social and ethical issues. This principle concerns relevance and connectedness, and also the communal nature of learning.
In learning environments that reflect this principle the teacher:
- 6.1 supports students to engage with contemporary knowledge and practice
- 6.2 plans for students to interact with local and broader communities and community practices
- 6.3 uses technologies in ways that reflect professional and community practices.