PL

1. Year 8
Personal Learning

2. 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

3. Key Vocab
 organisation
 learning materials
 learning opportunities
 personal drive

4. Getting Knowledge Ready
Just 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?

5. Organisation
Pre Week

6. Hook

7. 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

8. 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”

9. 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)

10. 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

11. 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.

12. 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

14. 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?