Key Competencies in action!

This morning the key competencies were alive and kicking in LS2. Using our multimodal reading site each group accessed the learning at their own pace and in their own way. This allowed for stronger connections to be made, something that was evident in the discussions that were taking place. Great collaboration LS2!

Thinking and making connections

Self managed reciprocal reading

Participating in and contributing to the learning

Understanding language, symbols and text

Relating to others

Key Competencies on Camp

This is a collaborative presentation created by Zeba, Nesi, and Yvette. It includes their predictions on how they might use the key competencies during camp, and how they actually used them during camp. You can see the comparisons before and after. 

This is Fine's Key Competencies Presentation that shows what I thought she needed to do before and after camp. We used these Key Competencies to stay safe,  follow our instructions correctly and make the wise choices.

Before camp Sajiha and Saruja did a presentation to predict which Key Competencies they might use at camp then reflect on what they actually used to help them follow the instructors rules and to follow the right track. 

Room 5's Class Treaty Collaboration:

We used our learning from exploring the PBS C.A.R.E Values and the Key Competencies to collaboratively create the guidelines that will help us shape our 2015 learning environment.

Building our Collaborative Classroom

Working collaboratively this year will help Room 5 learn with and from each other. To begin building this collaborative ethos the students worked in groups to experience and explore the key competencies of 'Thinking'; 'Relating to Others'; 'Using Language, Symbols and Text'; 'Managing Self' and 'Participating and Contributing'. 

The challenge: 

• To work together to decide the meaning and purpose of each competency and what this might look like in our classroom. 

We think the key competencies...

"... will improve our work and move it to the next level.  This is because we will have built confidence in our answers and will have learned key information from our friends."

Fine, San Tat, Dontalian, Saruja and Tim

 "... advise you to use them when working individually, in partners, or groups to produce different strategies in order to solve problems."

Yvette, Raymond, Tiare, June and Jacob

"... could help us think about what we would like to do in the future and help us achieve our goals, by making connections with others to help us with our work."

Djae, Halatoa, Samantha, Evelyn and Paige

 "... help us to have courage in our school work.  They make you feel more confident to take risks in your education."

Latham, John, Zahn, Jasmine and Sajiha

"... will help us get more opportunities to ask or answer more questions about our learning."

Sebastian, Oh S’Mar, Zeba and Ducati

PBS CARE Values: Tiare and Saruja

Tiare and Saruja have done a great job of using the key competencies to help them work collaboratively. Well done girls!

Using the Key Competencies in our Maths thinking groups:

The pictures below show Room 5 exploring how the key competencies can help them work collaboratively to solve number problems. Their focus was not only on selecting the best strategy to find the answer, but also to make sure they were Thinking, Relating to Others, Using Language, Symbols and Text, Managing Self and Participating and Contributing. This made for a successful first thinking group challenge. Well done Room 5!