Learning Support and Enhancement
"Equality means giving everyone equal opportunities to learn, not teaching everyone in exactly the same way."
Susan Weinbrenner
Education Expert
To meet the varied needs of all our students, our teachers provide differentiation in both instruction and curriculum. This means that students who are developing their skills and knowledge in a subject area are provided with tasks that extend and support them in their learning journey. Students who are further along in their learning will benefit from opportunities to extend their knowledge and skills.
Personalised learning goals are determined and documented through Individual Education Plans. We assess all our students using their NAPLAN results, assignment results, and through the ongoing use of VCAA on-demand adaptive testing tools. Frequent testing means that we can assess how well our strategies are working and make alterations to improve student outcomes.
It is very common to find that students who are excelling in one learning area may need assistance in another. Because of this, differentiation is applied to individual subjects for individual students and not as a blanket approach to the student's learning needs. This is one of the strengths of our iLEAP program - it ensures that students who are gifted and talented in one area can still be supported in other areas as needed.
The iLEAP Program
iLEAP is an engaging and challenging Extension program that provides students with an opportunity to work with each other in a supportive and encouraging environment. The curriculum supports, enriches and extends students in the disciplines of Mathematics, Numeracy, English and Literacy.
The program acknowledges that all students have different skill sets and aptitude in different areas and provides course material at three different levels – support, consolidating and extension
Research shows that all students have different starting points and preferred learning styles. iLEAP allow students to engage with the curriculum through the provision of:
- a more challenging learning environment at all ability levels – extension, consolidating and support
- the opportunity to study more abstract, complex and in depth texts and issues
- the capacity for students to work independently and cooperatively with students of similar ability and interests
- differentiated and dynamic learning opportunities that focus on creativity, innovative thinking, problem-solving and communication
