Teaching for effective learning

4.2 Connect to students’ lives and aspirations

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Acknowledge the personal significance of student contexts,cultures and aspirations

Do you have a monocultural, monolingual perspective?

How do other groups or cultures use this skill,knowledge strategy?

Are the practices culturally inclusive?

How might they use this knowledge in the future?

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Learner interest is generated through what comes through the door and what is generated in classroom

Value individual self-expression.

Offer activities where students choose their own way of completing them.

Offer different ways of learning content.

What lights them up?

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Support students to know themselves, their passions and their strengths

Create activities which allow them to dream.

Create activities where they explore for themselves.

Allow them to share their ideas with others.

Allow them to have input into their learning.

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Encourage new perspectives and discussion

Challenge their avenues of information.

Listen to responses and direct them onto new ground.

Pose guiding questions which encourage a complexity of thinking.

Allow them to discuss their ideas openly.

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Allow students to investigate and share learning interests

Encourage group and class presentations.

Encourage safe presentations to other audiences.

Encourage them to listen to everyone.

Allow them to understand that learning opportunities are everywhere and can be shared.

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Develop topics which demonstrate relevance to life beyond the classroom

Encourage students to connect learning with real issues.

Encourage students to connect learning with their aspirations.

Show them real life applications of what they are learning.

Allow them to see their learning as a continuum.

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Connect learning to issues of personal, local, national or international significance

Allow them to use their learning to create change.

Encourage them to use their learning in safe national/global situations

Encourage them to use their learning to contribute as citizens.

Allow them to use their learning in safe,new situations.

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Use contemporary technologies

Encourage them to experiment with technology

Encourage them to explore technology

Encourage them to look at technology in a complex way

Encourage them to compare the efficiency of devices for a particular task

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Ensure a range of purposes and community audiences

Get them to blog or use safe social media.

Get them to use their learning to produce materials for the benefit of all.

Look at presentation options.

Use a range of task presentations.

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Create ways of involving families

Create assignments where they need to discuss information with their families.

Create assignments they will talk about.

Ask them to speak with parents and family about different things.

Get them to compare cultural approaches to different aspects of their learning.

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Capitalise on unique strengths

Get them to connect safely globally and be rewarded for their uniqueness.

Allow them to draw or create artistic responses.

Value and discuss different approaches.

Get them to see if everyone does the same thing it can have its limits

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Identify the extra skills they need

Create assignments which highlight learning gaps.

Scaffold the harder things.

Create opportunities for them to see they need to learn.

Show examples of what they can achieve.

Let them contribute ideas and skills to challenges.

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Explore literacies

Look at how languages explain/understand things differently.

Use visual literacy.

Support literacy with captioning.

Challenge them to develop flexible ITC literacy.

Show them how meaning can change through medium of expression.

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Government of South Australia 2013

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