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EHSAS Contract 2007-2010

EHSAS Contract 2007-2010. Background. A 4 year contract St Mary’s College, Auckland Girls Grammar School and Ponsonby Intermediate. Main objective:.

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EHSAS Contract 2007-2010

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  1. EHSAS Contract2007-2010

  2. Background • A 4 year contract • St Mary’s College, Auckland Girls Grammar School and Ponsonby Intermediate

  3. Main objective: • “To empower students to become more independent in their information literacy skills and within that to develop their creative and critical thinking skills.” “Information literacy, the ability to define, locate, process and use information effectively, equips individuals to take advantage of the opportunities inherent in the global information society.”Assoc. for Supervision and Curriculum Dev., 1991

  4. Links to new curriculum • vision (we want our young people to be lifelong learners and active seekers, users and creators of knowledge), • the principles (encouraging students to reflect on their own learning processes and to learn to learn) • the values (inquiry and innovation – thinking critically, creatively and reflectively;) • the key competencies(thinking; relating to others; using language and texts) in the new curriculum.

  5. Who it involves

  6. Target areas at SMC

  7. As teachers what do we want our students to be? • “a vision of our young people as lifelong learners who are confident and creative, connected and actively involved.” (New Zealand Curriculum)

  8. How do we ensure that our students are lifelong learners? • assumptions • learning involves the use of knowledge to carry out meaningful tasks • new literacies and a changing information landscape • common information literacy model and language – cross curricular links • thinking skills

  9. What is the benefit for students? • Students can build on their information literacy skills through all subjects and across year levels • Cross-curricular links • NCEA • Common language • Provides opportunity for reflective learning • Motivates students to engage through providing opportunities for independent inquiry. • Power sharing in the classroom • Minimise the information overload and increase student awareness of validity of sources “More than 2/3 of teens said within the last year that they use the internet as their major resource when doing a big project for school...” In a study of 500 sites used at Colorado high school students to do research, only 27% of the sites were judged to be reliable for academic research!

  10. Benefit for teachers • we don’t have to teach all the information skills that students need at one time • students will become more independent and sophisticated learners and critical thinkers. • The Info-Lit toolkit will support teachers • a rise in Merit and Excellence grades in NCEA.

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