SDL 4 by Darren

Incidental SDL

darius68 — 2013-08-29 06:42:20 UTC

SDL

darius68 — 2013-08-29 06:42:26 UTC

(1)

darius68 — 2013-08-29 06:43:01 UTC

For the project work students decided what they wanted to do by consensus, decided on the objectives of the project, decided on the deliverables, set their own deadlines, and completed the project under the framework and supervision of their mentor/teacher.
A mentor/teacher role was not to guide them but to ask critical questions along the way which let the students think about where they were heading. The mentor also plays an important role in getting students to reflect on their learning. The mentor/teacher is merely a guide / facilitator.

(2)

darius68 — 2013-08-29 06:44:00 UTC

A GESL mentor provided the GESL group with the key objectives of GESL, and an environment for the group to manage themselves and come up with a suitable project.
The students decided what they wanted to do by consensus, set their own deadlines, and completed the project under the framework and guidance of the mentor.

(3)

darius68 — 2013-08-29 06:44:41 UTC

The teacher gives the students a presentation on the harmful effects of smoking. This was followed by homework which required the students to demonstrate what they have learnt. They could use either hand in:

–an essay
–Powerpoint slides
–mindmap

(4)

darius68 — 2013-08-29 06:45:27 UTC

Mr Tan, the Physics teacher, felt that his students were able and ready to manage their own learning. He has been systematically teaching them SDL skills through his lessons. He will be covering the topic of motion in the coming weeks and he wanted his students to be ready for the topic. He provided the learning guides on Newton’s Laws of Motion, questions and deadlines. His students were to complete their learning independently. He decided to use Edmodo to manage this process.
Within 3 weeks, students were to hand in a write up about their understanding of Newton’s Laws of Motion. They were to give him an update of their progress by the end of each week via email.

(5)

darius68 — 2013-08-29 06:46:08 UTC

The teacher encouraged and emphasized the importance of developing independent learning skills that will help students later in life.

The teacher gave an introductory lesson on graphs, mean, median and mode. She told them the objectives of the exercise they were about to engage in and also set the deliverable - present using Excel Graphs. She told students that they had 1 hour to complete the activity. They were to work in pairs.

She told them to focus on generating questions about what they know / don’t know about graphs, mean, median and modeand about the topic they were to select.

She suggested that they could usethe KWL method to generate questions and told them how to use the tool. The role of the teacher here was to monitor students’ progress and to facilitate the session.

So long and thanks for all the fish

2014-09-05 05:21:39 UTC