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This module focuses on how to unveil the interests and aptitudes of students, in order to plan and implement personalized educational paths and guidance services to valorise these talents through curricular and extracurricular activities and motivate the students to stay at school.

Capitalise on pupils interests and skills

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Chapter 4: Working staff in the school
Activities and tools used to get to know students, aimed at teachers + Online Resources
Teachers typically have a variety of official achievement information about their students. To help them learn more about students' learning styles, preferences, and intelligences, teachers have been provided with a wide range of tools. The need to learn more is driven by the fact that teachers cannot always depend exclusively upon the official curriculum to achieve desired schooling outcomes for all their students. They must instead look to the activities and patterns of the lives students are leading as an important curricular source, and then overlap and embed real-life learning goals into the curriculum.

The approach of examining students' lives—activities they enjoy or are even passionate about and activities they would like to explore help teachers learn what students and their families value about learning and what students might want schools to help them accomplish in their lives. Such information can be used to make appropriate enrichment, enhancement, or overlapping decisions about curriculum for each student when needed. Teachers can identify what students still need to learn to make a successful transition to work or college. Other students who benefit include those with significant disabilities and those who have moved often from school to school, rarely experiencing the coherence of an entire year's learning. Teachers may want to use only a part of such tools because only one part of a student's learning is challenging. For example, students who are shy and socially uncomfortable may benefit from an in-depth analysis of their interests and abilities about recreation and leisure activities.
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  • Getting to Know Your StudentsOur icebreakers, classroom introduction lessons, and worksheets will help students and teachers learn about each other and feel more at ease in their new setting.
  • The ABA InventoryThe teachers involved in the work that led to this book expanded its use to help them learn more about all their students.

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Date: 2016.09.02

Posted by Christine CLOES - Belgique

The strength of this module is to gather (and remind) important theoretical principles (as learning styles, multiple intelligences…) and practical advice to cultivate the students’ talents and interests,for example planning extracurricular activities, developing entrepreneurial experiences at school, etc.

Date: 2016.08.03

Posted by M.J. Romero - Spain

Interesting collection of online sources. Very complete and with different approaches.

Date: 2016.07.10

Posted by Liliana Cannone - Italy

The most interesting and functional section for the type of students F.Datini IPS is the "SKILL & JOBS", to deepen the profile of the professionals and the levels of skills within the school.
Furthermore, the analysis of the job profiles of the different countries involved in the project highlights the actual demand in the labor market. It would be useful to have in the Italian language test to use them in school with our students. The clearly structured site, has a dress simple and straightforward graphics, and is quite simple to find the inserted content

Date: 2016.07.07

Posted by Rouquette-Salerno Laetitia - France

The modules are really interesting and relevant

Date: 2016.07.06

Posted by Cristina Farzi - Romania

The module focuses on how to unveil the interests and aptitudes of students in order to plan and implement personalized educational paths and guidance services which successfully valorise students’ talents. As balancing theory and practice is one of the principles of this tool the second module starts from theoretical considerations on interests, aptitudes and key competences as well as school autonomy and learning styles, which are practically supported by useful hands-on curricular and extracurricular activities, teaching methods used to capitalize on students’ interests and skills and an impressive collection of best practices, experiences, success stories as well as tips on how to use them in class. The chapter also highlights the important of parent involvement in children’s development and success at school and in life.

Date: 2016.07.06

Posted by Elza Gheorghiu - Romania

The modules provide teachers and counsellors with invaluable online materials which can help them with:
- a conceptual and theoretical framework
- tools/ techniques to use
- activities to carry out
- examples of best practice
- case studies

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