The Approach to Pedagogy at Mount Warren Park State School
At Mount Warren Park, we plan for learning in a cumulative and recursive way by considering three principles:
Learner Principle – Knowing how learners need to be taught.
Curriculum Principle – Knowing what is going to be taught and the way content needs to be taught for the greatest impact on student engagement, learning and achievement.
Learning Principle – Knowing the nature of learning, how learning occurs and how students move through the process of learning.
We deliver explicit teaching of skills and content by embedding key knowledge and practices including recursively implementing the teaching cycle of review, teach, practice and apply.
1 – Science of Learning: Consideration of cognitive load theory (intrinsic, extraneous and germane cognitive load) and the 'forgetting curve' when planning for learning, including both tasks and the environment in which students learn.
2 – Segment and Sequence Skills: Skills are segmented into granular elements and content mapped to ensure curriculum is delivered in a systematic sequence.
3 – Engagement Norms: Use of a range of strategies to increase active student learning across learning areas.
4 – Worked Examples: Incorporating worked examples and non-examples to provide students with a guide of their 'next steps'.
5 – Practice, Practice, Practice – Providing opportunity for students to actively recall and apply their learning by ensuring spaced, interleaved and retrieval practice are incorporated. Actively and purposely recalling learning.
6 – Check for Understanding – Repeated and frequent monitoring to check for understanding of concept covered.
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