Explaining our Learning Behaviours Continuum.

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

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.

These behaviours describe what you do when you`re taking in information or ideas and making sense of them by thinking about how they build on what you already know or can do. Beyond school, this provides you with the mental/cognitive tools and strategies to adapt to problems, small and big, when you encounter them and need to respond.    These behaviours are assessed on a scale from Trainee (Step 1) to Practitioner (Step 4).  

Specifically, this time, we`re focusing on the ‘micro-behaviour’ c. Making connections

AT SCHOOL, the skills and knowledge that you develop are interconnected. Being able to see how your learning connects from lesson to lesson, between units in a subject over a year, or between years, strengthens your understanding of that subject.  Making connections between subjects in school, and thinking about how this connects to your life outside of school (and indeed the rest of the world) deepens your understandings and makes learning relevant to you.

BEYOND SCHOOL, the skills and knowledge that you develop through life are also interconnected. Whether it`s the social skills (teamwork and collaboration) that you use in the workplace or the literacy and numeracy skills you use when you are planning a big purchase (car, holiday, house), the choices you make are based on your interconnected experiences. The learning behaviour of making connections is what happens when you`re drawing upon all your experiences to make informed choices in life. 

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.

John Patterson