Tools
Social Sciences
The Effective Pedagogy in Social Sciences/Tikanga ā Iwi Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration (BES) identifies four tools to facilitate learning for diverse students in social sciences, which can readily be applied to many areas of learning. The tools are designed to enable teachers to readily assess the effectiveness of their programmes and teaching methods and evaluate what needs to happen next, for student learning to progress.
The four tools are:
- Making connections to students’ lives
- Aligning experiences to important outcomes
- Building and sustaining a learning community
- Designing experiences that interest students
Within the tools are useful hints on ways to:
- establish productive teaching and learning relationships
- use a variety of activities
- attend to individual learning needs and abilities
- meet diverse motivational needs and maximise student interest
- develop student thinking and communication skills
- build student knowledge and understanding of issues
- build student capacity to plan and take targeted action
Although these tools appear in the resource kit for secondary teachers, they would also be widely applicable in the primary sector. For more information, please refer to:
