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PoLT Online Professional Learning Resource – Principle 6

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Vignettes – Middle Years

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Level 4 English - Sustainability: Land Use

Focus Principle 6 Components

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

6.2 The teacher plans for students to interact with local and broader communities

6.3 The teacher uses technologies in ways that reflect professional and community practices

Links to other Principles/Components

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

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

3.4 The teacher capitalises on students’ experience of a technology-rich world.

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

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Civics and Citizenship

  • Community engagement

Discipline-based Learning

English

  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Speaking and listening

Science

  • Science at work

Interdisciplinary Learning

Design, Creativity and Technology

  • Investigating and designing
  • Producing

Topic

 Read the vignette - Sustainability – Land use

 

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 6 in action.

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

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Level 5 History - Investigating Change Through a Virtual Excursion

Focus Principle 6 Component

6.2 The teacher plans for students to interact with local and broader communities.

Links to other Principles/Components

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

3.4 The teacher capitalises on students’ experience of a technology-rich world

4.2 The teacher promotes substantive discussion of ideas.

Discipline-based Learning

History

  • Historical reasoning and interpretation

Interdisciplinary Learning

Information and Communications Technology

  • ICT for visualising thinking

Thinking Processes

  • Reasoning, processing and inquiry

Topic

Read the vignette – Investigating Change Through a Virtual Excursion (PDF - 35Kb)

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Level 4 Geography - Using the Laptop as an Integral Part of Learning

Focus Principle 6 Components

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

6.2 The teacher plans for students to interact with local and broader communities

Links to other Principles/Components

3.4 The teacher capitalises on students’ experience of a technology-rich world.

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.

Discipline-based Learning

Geography

  • Geographical knowledge and understanding

Interdisciplinary Learning

Information and Communications Technology

  • ICT for visualising thinking

Thinking Processes

  • Reasoning, processing and inquiry

Topic

 Read the vignette – Using the laptop as an integral part of learning (PDF - 170Kb)