Explaining our Learning Behaviours Continuum.

Learning behaviours are transferable, lifelong skills that are utilised by everyone to be successful 

The Learning Behaviour Continuum has been updated in 2025! Check out this video for an overview:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIOodoSEzP8

 

Learning Behaviour Continuum Overview

Students and staff have co-created the Learning Behaviour continuum to support everyone to grow their skills to engage positively in their learning at school, outside of school and beyond.  Learning behaviours are transferable, lifelong skills that are utilised by everyone to be successful, whatever role that they find themselves doing.

 

 

Our learning behaviour focus this time: Taking responsibility for managing the completion of tasks

These behaviours describe how you can 'set yourself up' and be best prepared to get the most from the time you invest in your learning. Beyond school, this means you`re able to manage your life, regardless of the role you find yourself in. These behaviours relate directly to task completion and in 2025, are assessed on a scale from 'not yet' to ‘consistently’

 

Specifically, this time, we`re focusing on the ‘micro-behaviour’ c. Managing time effectively to complete and submit tasks

 

AT SCHOOL, being able to effectively plan and manage your time to set and meet clear goals around completing and submitting tasks is a part of taking responsibility to complete set work on time. 

One effective strategy to use your time most efficiently is the Pomodoro technique. Breaking your study time into smaller (25 minute) chunks, with 5 minute breaks between these study periods, is an evidence-based strategy to maximise the learning that happens when you study - https://youtu.be/aQ_xKuXo0D0  (The Pomodoro Technique Explained (Physics Online, 2:53). 

 

BEYOND SCHOOL, managing your time, including knowing what you need to do, when you need to do it and how you`ll get it done is a transferable, lifelong skill. Tasks, especially big projects, are completed best with a plan. Gannt charts are one example of how this can be done.

Here is what this micro-behaviour can look like at each level of the Positive Learning Behaviour Continuum.

 

Students can access additional supporting resources on the ‘LBM Supporting website*’, accessible via the Compass -School Favourites menu (Star at top right). This resource allows students to pinpoint their current level and provides example strategies to grow this learning.

 

*This is an internal website – accessible to students and staff only – ask your young person to show you.

If you have any specific, additional examples of what this behaviour can look like, or examples of where it is used, we would really like to hear from you. If you have any additional suggestions, questions or wonderings around this behaviour, or the Learning Behaviour Continuum itself, please email learningbehaviour@viewbank.vic.edu.au and we`ll be in touch. 

John Patterson