SRI - Differentiation  

This year one of our school priorities is differentiation. Our focus this year is to engage, challenge and extend students at St Michael’s. During our staff development day teachers had the opportunity to engage in professional learning that explored different teaching and learning strategies to support and challenge the students in our classes. 

This term, each class’ Religious Education ‘Easter’ unit is using contemporary effective teaching strategies which promote student engagement and provide students an opportunity to have ownership over their learning. Students are developing their skills to work collaboratively and be critical, creative and innovative thinkers. 

To kick this process off each class engaged with an entry event, this event provided a variety of stimulus for students to interact with and hypothesise what they were learning about. Students then came up with a list of things they already knew about Easter and a list of things they needed to know. 

Teachers have then collaboratively planned lessons around the ‘Needs to knows’ for their class. This teaching and learning has been highly responsive to student needs and engagement levels across the school have been high. We are very excited to share this learning process with you over Seesaw. 

Here is what some of our students have to say about the process: 

Miss Riolo - Middle Leader 2