Year 8

Personal Learning

Learning Intention

To organise my learning

materials to maximize

my learning

opportunities.

Success Criteria

To have created and

organised my digital

folders on my school

drive

Key Vocab

organisation

learning materials

learning opportunities

personal drive

Getting Knowledge ReadyJust think for a minute …

What does it mean to be an effective learner?

How will you be more organised?

Did you “FORGET” to hand something in last year, miss a deadline, or simply not get something done?

NOT THIS YEAR FRIENDS!!!

What does

the title tell

me?

What do I

predict the

text will be

about?

What can

the pictures

tell me?

What do I

already know

about this

topic?

What

words do

I expect

to see?

What

images come

to mind?

What will I

do as I

read?

Organisation

Pre Week

Hook

What will I learn about in PL? Literacy skills

Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Intelligence tasks

Bloom’s Taxonomy (thinking skills)

Inquiry Based Projects

Self-directed learning

Glossary/Vocab

Health

Digital Folders Log in to your personal student drive – not just the

computer.

Connect to the drive with your username and password

(same as last year)

Create a folder called “School Work 2014”

Put EVERYTHING that you currently have saved in to

this folder NOW

Create a folder called “Semester 1 2015”

Digital Folder In the Semester 1 2015 folder, create the following sub-

folders:

English

Maths

Science

Humanities (Geography, History)

Personal Learning

Electives (Japanese, Woodwork, cooking etc)

Important Dates In your calendar/diary - your phone/computer

- Swimming sports – 12th February

- Cross Country – 23rd March

- Parent Teacher Interviews 26th & 27th March

- Due dates from other teachers – every Math Mate is

due. Set a reminder

- How to set a reminder

STUDENT WORK Each teacher has a pigeon hole at the front of the

room.

If you have work that needs to be submitted to a

particular teacher you are to put it in the pigeon hole.

The teachers will be checking this on a regular basis.

Literacy Skills Writing skills that will help you in all classes

Reading/Comprehension that will at times use

materials from your other subjects

May include summarising, paraphrasing, editing and

proof-reading.

Spelling strategies

Review Students use the Review

Book to reflect on how today's organistation will assist them with their learning throughout the year.

Tell one thing you now know about PL.

What learning actions did you use today?