The teaching, learning and assessing cycle

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The teaching, learning and assessing cycle
DECS Languages and Multicultural Education
Portfolio
Understanding and using the teaching-learning
cycle for teaching a genre
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The teaching-learning cycle

• Objectives
• What is it?
• Where does it come from?
• Why is it useful?

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The four stages

• Building the field
• Extending everyday understandings of energy
  issues

2. Modelling / deconstruction Developing
understandings of structure and language of
discussion essay

• Joint construction
• Jointly constructing written discussion about
  one alternative source of energy

4. Independent construction Writing independent
discussion on another alternative sources of
energy
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What is it?
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Where does it come from?

• Scaffolding
• Vygotsky
• Learning takes place before development

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Vygotsky
Culture shapes cognitive development
Social interaction central to development
Zone of proximal development
Development is spiral
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Scaffolding
Bruner
Role of the adult
Learning as a social process
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Scaffolding in the classroom

• Challenge and extend learners

High challenge and high support new learning
takes place
Support gradually withdrawn as learners
increasingly independent
Support provided at point of need
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Why is it useful?

• Rationale and framework for sequence of teaching
  and learning activities
• Focus on language learning and learning about
  language
• Pedagogy which scaffolds learners to become
  independent learners
• Flexible framework

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A teaching-learning cycleeg Recycling