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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 3: Teaching methods to capitalize on students’ interests and skills
Working in the class to capitalize skills to help students have successful learning paths in class + Online Resources
All schools share the mission of helping every student reach his or her full potential. However, teachers often have to cope with a wide range of students showing diversity in their needs and interests. Students also differ a lot in temrs of their motivation, prior knowledge and skills, learning styles, multiple intelligences, interests and backgrounds. To tap each student’s potential, teachers need to value each student as an individual capable of making progress. Embracing learner diversity is therefore an important direction in school-based curriculum development.

Many students could learn more effectively than they do now if they were taught in a way that better matched their patterns of abilities. Using a wide range of activities in class provides a way to create such a match. It involves helping all students capitalize on their strengths and compensate for or correct their weaknesses. It does so by teaching in a way that balances learning for memory, analytical, creative, and practical thinking. By using a variety of activities teachers encourage students to analyze, judge, compare and contrast, evaluate, and assess. In addition, creative activities require teachers to support and encourage creativity. The materials provide teachers with useful tips and activities on how to capitalise students’ skills so that they are successful at school.
Online Resources
  • Meeting the needs of diverse learnersThe site gives insights into how students’ diverse needs can be met through strategic curriculum planning, quality instruction and appropriate assessments in the classroom
  • Using Curriculum and Assessment to Strengthen Classroom Practice The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for practitioners who are learning to define curriculum and its importance for high quality early learning and school-age programs and consider children’s interests, their developmental levels, their personalities or temperaments and their individual needs
  • Handy Activities for Student SuccessThe document focuses on including key career information and activities in classes, which will provide the guidance students need to find the success they seek
  • Developing Employability SkillsThe document focuses on developing transversal skills in curricular activities
  • Robert J. Sternberg, Successful intelligence in the classroomThis article describes how such teaching is done and provides data supporting the efficacy of the approach. It involves helping all students capitalize on their strengths and compensate for or correct their weaknesses. It does so by teaching in a way that balances learning for memory, analytical, creative, and practical thinking.

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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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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This web site reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.