Professional+Development

October 2011- Our Learning Model: one year on...

Puzzle pieces were chosen to represent the interconnectedness of all the stages of learning; our model is not cyclical and we acknowledge that sometimes learning would not involve all the stages above.

Learning verbs have also been developed that reflect the kind of actions we perform at each of these stages. These verbs are being used with the students to make the stages clear to them.

8 October 2010 - Developing our Learning Model

The day began with the staff looking at what we have done so far in terms of documents and policies that outline how teaching and learning take place at Ramarama School. Then we broke into focus groups and used google docs to collaborate to answer the question 'What is Learning?', focusing on theory, research and established school documents.

Once we had established what learning is we moved on to examining inquiry models and then onto developing a model of Learning that will apply for all learning situations (Inquiry Learning included).


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Sigrid sharing her idea about how our learning model could be displayed || __Our learning model has 6 steps__: Remember, Ask, Seek, Use, Share, Reflect Running through all of these stages are 'Think' and 'Evaluate'
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Our next step is to come up with a visual display that will give our learning model cognitive portability.

28 July- AFL and Inquiry We had an excellent session with Barbara Anne Alexander about AFLising the Inquiry Process. We came out of it with some great practical Learning Intentions and Success Criteria!


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