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Strategies to Activate the Key Skills:
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MANAGING INFORMATION & THINKING
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WORKING WITH OTHERS
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COMMUNICATING
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MANAGING MYSELF
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BEING LITERATE
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STAYING WELL
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BEING NUMERATE
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BEING CREATIVE
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Strategies to Activate the Key Skills:
MANAGING MYSELF
This is a cooperative learning activity. Students form a home team and are set a home team problem. They break up into "expert groups" and gain expert knowledge that feeds into the overall problem. Just as in a jigsaw puzzle, each student's part is essential for the completion and full understanding of the home team problem.
This is a comprehension strategy that is used
before reading to activate students' prior
knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic.
This strategy also stimulates student interest in a
topic and sets a purpose for reading, listening or
watching. They teach students to make predictions,
anticipate and verify predictions. They will
connect new information to prior knowledge.
This strategy allows students to demonstrate
an understanding of relationships between
things and helps them clarify concepts.
Used collaboratively, students develop
communication skills and can deepen their
understanding of the topic in hand.
In this strategy students work together through
group vote to make informed decisions, to
prioritise and reach consensus. It could be used in
a Tutor Class, Year Group or Student Council to
come to a democratic decision.
Dotmocracy gives every student an equal chance
to have their opinion recorded even in the largest
of groups.
. . . success criteria summarise the
key steps or ingredients the student needs
in order to fulfil the learning intention
- the main things to do, include
or focus on.
Shirley Clarke 2010
This strategy serves several purposes: it elicits prior
knowledge of the text, it sets a purpose for
reading and it helps students monitor their
comprehension.
By being aware of students' interests and prior
knowledge the teacher has the ability to create
projects and assignments that are challenging and
that the students will enjoy. A KWL chart is a tool
that can be used to inform teaching as well as
guide student learning.
This strategy gives students a structure to
summarise and represent visually what they have
learned. It improves long-term memory of factual
information.
After teaching a topic coggle could be used to
summarise, organise and visualise the topic. It
could also be used as a brainstorming exercise to
summarise prior knowledge at the beginning of
a topic.
Provides all students with an opportunity to
engage in thinking at the evaluation level of
Bloom's taxonomy.
A Ranking Ladder requires students to place items
on rungs of a ladder in order from least to most
important, as a group activity it allows students to
be challenged as to why they rank one item above
or below another.
This strategy gives students the opportunity to
respond to questions in writing. Asking students
to think and write about what they are learning
promotes retention and comprehension.
These checks for understanding help students
make sense of what they are learning before
moving on in the lesson.
This strategy allows students to graphically display the similarities and differences between two items or themes. It works very well with groups allowing oral processing of learning. A very effective strategy for comparing and contrasting.
MANAGING MYSELF
JIGSAW Strategy more_vert
This is a cooperative learning activity. Students form a home team and are set a home team problem. They break up into "expert groups" and gain expert knowledge that feeds into the overall problem. Just as in a jigsaw puzzle, each student's part is essential for the completion and full understanding of the home team problem.
Anticipation Exercise more_vert
This is a comprehension strategy that is used
before reading to activate students' prior
knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic.
This strategy also stimulates student interest in a
topic and sets a purpose for reading, listening or
watching. They teach students to make predictions,
anticipate and verify predictions. They will
connect new information to prior knowledge.
Classification more_vert
This strategy allows students to demonstrate
an understanding of relationships between
things and helps them clarify concepts.
Used collaboratively, students develop
communication skills and can deepen their
understanding of the topic in hand.
Dotmocracy more_vert
In this strategy students work together through
group vote to make informed decisions, to
prioritise and reach consensus. It could be used in
a Tutor Class, Year Group or Student Council to
come to a democratic decision.
Dotmocracy gives every student an equal chance
to have their opinion recorded even in the largest
of groups.
KWL more_vert
This strategy serves several purposes: it elicits prior
knowledge of the text, it sets a purpose for
reading and it helps students monitor their
comprehension.
By being aware of students' interests and prior
knowledge the teacher has the ability to create
projects and assignments that are challenging and
that the students will enjoy. A KWL chart is a tool
that can be used to inform teaching as well as
guide student learning.
Mindmap more_vert
This strategy gives students a structure to
summarise and represent visually what they have
learned. It improves long-term memory of factual
information.
After teaching a topic coggle could be used to
summarise, organise and visualise the topic. It
could also be used as a brainstorming exercise to
summarise prior knowledge at the beginning of
a topic.
Ranking Ladder more_vert
Provides all students with an opportunity to
engage in thinking at the evaluation level of
Bloom's taxonomy.
A Ranking Ladder requires students to place items
on rungs of a ladder in order from least to most
important, as a group activity it allows students to
be challenged as to why they rank one item above
or below another.
Stop and Jot more_vert
This strategy gives students the opportunity to
respond to questions in writing. Asking students
to think and write about what they are learning
promotes retention and comprehension.
These checks for understanding help students
make sense of what they are learning before
moving on in the lesson.
Venn Diagram more_vert
This strategy allows students to graphically display the similarities and differences between two items or themes. It works very well with groups allowing oral processing of learning. A very effective strategy for comparing and contrasting.