At St Anthony’s we believe that effective teaching promotes the wellbeing of students, teachers and the school community. It improves students’ and teachers’ confidence and contributes to their sense of purpose for being at school. It builds community confidence in the quality of learning and teaching in the school.
Learning and Teaching opportunities at St Anthony’s school include:
- Use of a hands-on based approach to engage students
- Provide explicit teaching of skills
- Provide real life problems and issues relevant to students
- Encourage students to utilise a range of technology
- Teacher modelling and demonstration
- Opportunities to manipulate concrete materials, equipment, instruments and technologies
- The use of a variety of medium for recording data, including charts, exercise books, text books and ICT
- Provide opportunities for literacy development
- Allow students to reflect upon their learning
- Take full advantage of incidental learning opportunities
- The use of open-ended questions and tasks to promote higher order thinking
- Working with others and in teams to facilitate learning
- Utilise digital resources to access worldwide knowledge
