Innovations and Excellence Bendigo Secondary Schools' Cluster

Principle Four

In learning environments that reflect this principle the teacher:

• 4.1 plans sequences to promote sustained learning that builds over time and emphasises connections between ideas
• 4.2 promotes substantive discussion of ideas
  brainstorming
  questioning techniques
• 4.3 emphasises the quality of learning with high expectations of achievement
• 4.4 uses strategies that challenge and support students to question and reflect
  graphic organisers
  thinkers keys
• 4.5 uses strategies to develop investigating and problem solving skills
• 4.6 uses strategies to foster imagination and creativity.

Recommended websites:

De-Bono - 6 Hats
De- Bono - Datt Tools
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Buzan - Mind Mapping
Graphic Organisers