T.+4+Elaborate

Elaborate

VELS Info: The teacher engages students in dialogue, continuously extending and refining students’ understanding. They support students to identify and define relationships between concepts and to generate principles or rules. The teacher selects contexts from familiar to unfamiliar, which progressively build the students’ ability to transfer and generalise their learning. The teacher supports students to create and test hypotheses and to make and justify decisions. They monitor student understanding, providing explicit feedback, and adjusting instruction accordingly.

Capabilities:
 * Facilitates substantive conversation
 * Cultivates higher order thinking
 * Monitors progress

Level 4: The teacher explains the taxonomy used to structure the task and inform the assessment criteria. They support students to use evidence to challenge assumptions underpinning principles when extending the learning to new contexts. The teacher structures opportunities for students to sustain a conversation, deepening individual and collective understanding. They support students to critique one another’s ideas to increase the intellectual rigour of the conversation. The teacher continuously monitors student progress and provides feedback that enables each student to understand what they need to do to improve.

VELS Progression Points for this section: Interdisciplinary Learning - Information and Communications Technology - creation of an electronic portfolio that logically displays files meeting collaboratively determined criteria; for example, ‘the use of multimedia tools for solving problems’ Physical, Personal and Social learning - Interpersonal Development - awareness of responses to actions that display empathy skills in developing a shared understanding of tasks and team plans readiness to give and accept constructive feedback about performance Discipline-based Learning - The Humanities - Geography - identification of natural processes; for example, rainfall and flood, earth movements and earthquakes, drought and bushfire Discipline-based Learning - English - analysis and discussion of a range of perspectives presented in different texts on the same topic selection of vocabulary, text structures and visual features to effectively communicate ideas and information identification of main ideas and some supporting details in spoken and multimodal texts Interdisciplinary Learning - Communication - understanding of the non-verbal strategies that presenters use to engage with audiences; for example, physical positioning, eye contact and gestures
 * ICT for creating - Progression Point 3.75 -**
 * Building social relationships - Progression Point 3.75 -**
 * Working in teams - Progression Point 3.50 -**
 * Geographic knowledge and understanding - Progression Point 3.25 -**
 * Reading - Progression Point 3.75 -**
 * Writing - Progression Point 3.75 -**
 * Speaking and listening - Progression Point 3.75 -**
 * Listening, viewing and responding - Progression Point 3.50 -**

Activities: Glogster making the video/audio/newspaper - connect to dramatic arts