Strength Based Learning
Expert Partner:
UCLL
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Teacher’s Guide with examples of classroom implementation:
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Description
A method of classroom management and approach, especially when teaching in diverse multicultural classrooms, focused on students’ talents and strengths and not on students’ weakness. SBL-assignment students are asked to build their own learning path which has to include the following elements: the content (the what), the way of working (the how) and the possibility to ask for help when they struggle as well as feedback once they’ve completed part of the assignment. To help them they receive a rubric that contains several options for each of these building blocks. They get to choose how to combine these building blocks, taking into account their own strengths, to create their own lesson content.
In a SBL-environment students evaluate themselves using a feedback form based on the OICO-principle which lays out a pathway for a student to master a higher order skill.
Examples, lesson plans, case studies
Choose an example:
Adding and subtracting to 10
Lesson program future prospects
Children’s rights and writing (pamphlets)
Available resources:
Evaluation form students 1th grade adding and subtracting to 10
Evaluation form teacher 1th grade adding and subtracting to 10
Adding and subtracting to 10
Lesson program Future prospects and student booklet
Children’s Rights and Creative Writing (pamphlets)
Evaluation form students children’s rights and creative writing (pamplets)
Evaluation form teacher children’s rights and creative writing (pamphlets)
