1.5 Drivers for Effective Actions: Standards, Learning and Principles

4.1. The Principles in action: Part 1

As defined by the authors from The Learning Scientists Project (Weinstein & Sumeracki, 2018), these strategies are:

Describing and explaining ideas with detail, establishing relationships between different ideas, and connecting them to own experiences and memories.

While using the PSsmile activities you can …

… describe the skills and topics that are being explored thoroughly, making connection to specific situations from the student’s or group’s experiences.

Making the effort of bringing the ideas and content learnt to mind, evoking specific information and details, and checking accuracy afterwards.

 

While using the PSsmile activities you can …

… use the suggested flash cards with the group, trying to recall detailed information gained from a previous activity and checking the accuracy of your notes afterwards.

Planning the work spread along the time; it is better to work on a topic for five hours throughout a week, than to study it for five hours in the same day.

 

While using the PSsmile activities you can …

… spread the exploration of a specific content (e.g., identifying own emotions) in time, instead of intensively going through the whole content in one long session.