Learning &
Teaching

Susanne Jackson
Deputy Principal- Learning & Teaching

Introducing St Joseph's Learning Powers!

Building Learning Power in students helps them to be more confident in their own learning ability and to become better learners in school and beyond. Research has shown that developing students’ learning powers or behaviours;

✅ Raises achievement

✅ Improves behaviour

✅ Increases motivation

✅ Creates supple learning minds

✅ Increases enjoyment in learning

✅ Establishes habits of lifelong learning

✅ Enhances creativity

At St Joseph's our students and staff have been engaged in an ongoing inquiry into the dispositions that help us to be successful lifelong learners. This has involved exploring research, system documents, and curriculum, then experimenting with different ways to support students to build their dispositions for learning. As a result of our inquiry, we have designed our new St Joseph's Learning Powers. These have been linked to local wildlife to help students connect to and engage with the learning powers. Over the next few weeks, we will introduce you to each power and explain how you can help to build these at home.

This Weeks Learning Power

This week our Focus Learning Power is Collaborative Learner. This learning power supports students to understand that learning can be social and when we are open to working with others we can think about things in new ways. We have used our research and the Victorian Curriculum to design an F-2 and a Yr 3-6 poster to support students to understand how they can use the power of collaboration to support their learning.