Student Sites
The following includes a brief explanation of Student Sites, as well as examples of how Student Sites is being applied in current practice in the VTaL Google+ Community. Included are different aspects of the Practicing Teaching Criteria that links to the use of Student Sites. There are also references of how Student Sites connects to the 7 Principles of Learning from the Nature of Learning, published by the OECD Project Innovative Learning Environment.
Student Sites
The purpose of the Student Sites is that students can showcase visual representations of the work that they have completed within a particular subject.
The VTaL Visible Teaching and Learning Google+ Community is a public community that is completely visible and accessible to all users.
The section on Student Sites includes posts that cover a wide range of topics relevant to student sites, such as:
- Automotive Toolbox and Student Sites - Mergran Naicker, Automotive
Practising Teacher Criteria
The following are various aspects of Practising Teaching Criteria that relates to the use of Student Sites.
Promote a collaborative, inclusive and supportive learning environment
- demonstrate effective management of the learning setting which incorporates successful strategies to engage and motivate ākonga
- foster trust, respect and cooperation with and among ākonga
Reflective Questions
The following are reflective questions that relates to the use of Subject Sites.
"Students can showcase visual representations of the work that they have completed"
- Do you use Student Sites to enable students to showcase visual representations of their work?
- If not, do you use other learning tools to enable students to showcase visual representations of their work?
- Why or how do the Student Sites or other learning tools meet the learning needs of Ākonga?
- Do these tools align with Visible Teaching and Learning eg. accessible to Ākonga, teaching colleagues, support staff and other professionals, whānau and other carers of ākonga, agencies, groups and individuals in the community?
- What professional development are you undertaking to further develop your understanding and implementation of Student Sites in teaching and learning programs?
7 Principles of Learning
The following are different aspects of the 7 Principles of Learning that relates to the use of Student Sites.
The learning environment recognises the learners as its core participants, encourages their active engagement and develops in them an understanding of their own activity as learners.
OECD The Nature of Learning, 2016Building horizontal connections
The learning environment strongly promotes “horizontal connectedness” across areas of knowledge and subjects as well as to the community and the wider world.
OECD The Nature of Learning, 2016