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Areas of Interaction. Five Organizing Elements. Now known as HUMAN INGENUITY. 1. Approaches To Learning- Key Questions. How do I learn best? How do I know? How do I communicate my understanding?. ATL Components. Organization Collaboration Communication Informational Literacy
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Areas of Interaction Five Organizing Elements
Now known as HUMAN INGENUITY
1. Approaches To Learning-Key Questions • How do I learn best? • How do I know? • How do I communicate my understanding?
ATL Components • Organization • Collaboration • Communication • Informational Literacy • Reflection • Problem Solving • Critical Thinking • Subject-specific Understanding • Interdisciplinary conceptual understanding
2. Community and Service • How do we live in relation to each other? • How can I contribute to the community? • How can I help others? • How are communities similar? • How can I make a difference? • How are communities different?
Community and Service • Starts in the classroom and extends beyond it, requiring students to participate in the communities in which they live. • Emphasis on developing community awareness and concern, sense of responsibility, and the skills and attitudes needed to make an effective contribution to society.
Community and ServiceComponents • Sensitivity to needs of the community and society in general • Awareness of the role individual in society • A willingness to respond to the needs of others • An altruistic attitude which enriches the life of the student through enhanced insight into different social patterns and ways of life.
3. Human Ingenuity • Why and how do we create? • What are the consequences? • Man the Maker-Homo Faber
Human Ingenuity Components • Origin- individual desire to create, develop, or change. • Process- involved in the creation, development, or change. • Product- what has been created. • Context- placing the product in context. • Impact- impact of this creation on individuals, society, and the world. • Development- subsequent developments and change.
4. Environment • Where do we live? • What resources do we have or need? • What are my responsibilities?
Environment Components • Natural and Manmade • Gravity and scope of environmental issues • Conservation and the role of local and international organizations responsible for protecting our environment • Concepts of sustainable development • Political and cultural dimensions of environmental issues • Ways in which environments are transformed • Controlled, preserved, or destroyed by people.
5. Health and Social Education • How do I think and act? • How am I changing? • How can I look after myself and others?
Health and Social Education Components • Looking after ourselves • Health, diet, stress management, leisure and fun, mental illness • Understanding ourselves: need and wants, personal identity, emotional development, spiritual awareness, self assessment, accepting responsibility • Ourselves and others: interpersonal skills, relationship skills, understanding authority, class, family, community • Ourselves in the wider society: freedoms and responsibilities, cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic differences, racial prejudice and stereotyping, morals and ethics, consumer attitudes and behavior, world living standards, development issues, social justice.