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Its all about learning!

• Mary Manning
• School Library Association of Victoria

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The Victorian Essential Learning StandardsA
new approach to organising curriculum
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This curriculum approach addresses

• The economic and social changes associated with
  the development of our global, knowledge-based
  world and their implications for schools, and
• The growing evidence base about how people learn
  and its implications for teaching that works

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A move away from increased content towards-

• A student-centred approach
• Developing the learner who can apply their
  knowledge beyond the classroom to new and
  different situations
• Autonomous learners

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Speakers Note To succeed beyond the compulsory
years of schooling, all students need to develop
these three capacities. The three organising
principles of the VELS are derived from these
three explicitly stated purposes. Together they
help to answer the broad question about the kind
of young people we want our schools to nurture.
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Three strands

• Physical, Personal and Social Learning
• Discipline-based Learning
• Interdisciplinary Learning

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Balance and equality

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours in each of the
  three strands
• Together the three strands provide the basis for
  students to develop deep understanding
• An ability to take their learning and apply it to
  new and different circumstances
• The disciplines are related to the other strands
  in a new and integrated manner

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Novice learners to expert learners!The
development involves

• Noticing features and meaningful patterns of
  information
• Acquiring content knowledge that is organised in
  ways to reflect a deep understanding
• Applying knowledge in ways appropriate to context
  rather than exercising ones memory
• Approaching new situations in flexible ways

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The Humanities
Physical, personal social
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Implications for school libraries

• Skills that have never been explicitly stated
  before are now acknowledged and standards stated
• Interdisciplinary skills and behaviours are of
  equal value to discipline skills and knowledge
• A whole school approach is necessary for planning
• Integration and collaboration required
• Focus on what is essential for expert or
  autonomous learning

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Thinking

• Our world and the world of the future demand that
  all students are supported to become effective
  and skilful thinkers. Thinking validates existing
  knowledge and enables individuals to create new
  knowledge and to build ideas and make connections
  between them. It entails reasoning and inquiry
  together with processing and evaluating
  information.
• Students develop strategies to find suitable
  sources of information and learn to distinguish
  between fact and opinion.
• Students increase their repertoire of thinking
  strategies for gathering and processing
  information.

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ICT

• In their learning of new material, students
  experiment with some simple ICT tools and
  techniques for visualising their thinking. They
  organise and classify information and ideas, and
  present them in a manner that is meaningful to
  them.
• Students develop an understanding of the
  importance of checking the accuracy of facts that
  are going to be processed

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Where to start?

• What element of the Victorian Essential Learning
  Standards appeals to you?
• Find your entry point and then make the links
• (John Firth, VCAA 2005)
• Visit
• http//vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au
• http//www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/blueprint/fs1/