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Ballarat Grammar: Character Strengths

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Ballarat Grammar has a big focus on wellbeing and has been included with the religious program at the school. It is called R.P and E which is short for religion, philosophy and ethics. Students attend this once a week in their classes or with other classes in the same year level. The first few weeks of term were focused on students completing a character strength survey. Character strengths highlight positive personality qualities that students possess and encourage them to use these qualities in positive ways. By showing students their top 5 character strengths they can get a better understanding of who they are as well value qualities in others. Another program that whole school engages in as a whole community is All On At Once (AOAO). This happens every Wednesday afternoon and the experiences that I saw were physical education such as jump rope …show more content…

They are procedures that can used to introduce a topic or at the end of lesson to help student to think deeply. Students use them to further engage in a topic, share their knowledge or reflect on their progress or learning. Some of my favourite routines were CSI which stands for Colour, Symbol and Image. It is a non-verbal way of getting students to explain their thoughts. A topic or idea is suggested and students a required to give it a colour, symbol and image. They are to then share this with people around them and discuss the similarities and differences on their work. This gives students an insight into different perspectives and open to new ideas and ways of thinking. Another thinking routine that I used in my teaching was connect, extend, challenge. After our first lesson on measuring energy in the home I asked students to write down how the lesson connected to what they already knew, how it extended or built on their prior knowledge and what is still changed or confused them. The student’s answers were then used to plan my next

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