Gr. 10 Learning Strategies: Exploring My World as a Learner
The Learning Strategies course at VC focuses on helping students acquire the necessary skills to become independent, successful students.
Welcome to the Learning Strategies Class.
The purpose of this class is to help you acquire the necessary skills to become a great student and to help you develop an essential joy of learning.
Throughout the year you will be tracking and reflecting on your learning. Through "learning logs". You will then be creating a Learning Journey Timeline and an 'action plan' for your grade 11 year. In addition, you will be researching a famous person with a disability and creating a presentation for your peers.
Please remember that throughout this course you are only limited by your imagination. So, think big, be creative, and immerse yourself in the learning journey.
Enduring Understandings
Throughout this course students will:
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Understand the value of diversity in learning and in society
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Develop self-confidence and self-advocacy skills
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Refine their existing compensatory strategies (reading strategies, writing strategies, listening strategies, study strategies, researching strategies, strategies for memory, organizational strategies, and time management strategies) for learning and develop additional strategies to help meet their potential as learners
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Cultivate problem solving skills to become independent learners.
Essential Questions
The questions which will guide student learning are:
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What does it mean to be different? How am I different as a person and as a learner? How can one capitalize on difference?
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What is self-advocacy? How can I cultivate self-advocacy skills? Why do I need self-advocacy skills?
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What effective compensatory strategies can be put into place to meet processing challenges such as organization, reading, writing, studying, researching, listening, and analyzing?
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How can I engage in problem solving to assist me with my learning and with the development of learning strategies?
Course Outline
