Engge

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• Building Relationships with our Youth

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• This Project Aims To
• Provide opportunities for teaching staff working
  with at risk youth.
• Provide innovative e-learning solutions to build
  positive classroom relationships.
• Develop staff skills that promote resilience,
  self-esteem and a feeling of belonging, to enable
  students to realise their full potential.
• Increase teachers ability and confidence to
  develop exciting, up-to-date e-learning tools
  for students

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• Cont
• Develop a LearnScope team that will undertake
  group learning around the issues of at risk
  students behaviour and learning.
• Develop e-learning copy of games, or personal
  development tools to assist the at risk student
  with their Dream-making, relationship building,
  engagement or future goal setting.
• Develop opportunities for staff to better
  understand the learning needs of at risk
  students
• Develop opportunities for staff at Sunraysia
  Institute of TAFE to develop an e-learning tool
  using electronic media.

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Planning and Strategies

• All teaching staff invited to attend a PD day
  with Ray Lewis
• Learn Scope Committee formed
• Naming, brainstorming and research of Project
  Tools
• Project Action Plan and timelines
• Development of Project Structure 2
  sub-committees formed for lesson plan development
  and e-learning tools
• Development of the Project two sub-committees
  came back together to look at where e-tools fit
  within the lesson plan
• Lesson Plan draft trialed with students
  teaching staff

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• To engage our young people in e-learning
• opportunities this LearnScope group is
• developing a Lesson Plan Template that
• all staff can use with at risk young
• people.
• This could be used for
• Personal development
• Career planning
• Maths

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• Dream Maker. COM

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• PART ONE SETTING THE SCENE
• Dreams
• This is setting the scene to allow students to
  see what dreams are and to
• get some brainstorming happening. Many at risk'
  young people dont
• have dreams or future goals as they live in the
  now!
• What is a Dream???
• Questions What do you think dreams are?
• Why is it important to have a dream?
• What makes a dream achievable?
• Show Eminem Photo Story example to show how he
  achieved his dream
• What are some of the setbacks Eminem had to
  overcome?

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Eminems Digital Story
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• This is an opportunity to get students to start
  to think about
• themselves, their strengths, what they enjoy and
  things theyd like to do
• better.
• Who am I?
• What are some of the things I am good at??
• Approachable
• Honest
• Loyal
• Courageous
• Hard working
• Responsible
• What do I enjoy doing?
• What would I like to be better at?
  Online activity

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• Activity
• The activities are to get students to extend
  themselves
• and to look at a dream that they might like to
  achieve.
• Choose one of the following questions to answer,
  think about the
• things you are good at that you might want other
  people to know
• about you.
• What would you like to read about yourself in the
  Newspaper?
• If a song was written about you what kind of song
  would it be? Can you think of any quotes/lyrics
  that would describe you?
• If you were to make a movie about you, what sort
  would it be? Would you star in it? What role
  would you have?

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PART TWO DREAM THE DREAM

• Research my Dream (the journey)
• This is the journey of the dream (the reality of
  achievement)
• Brainstorm, evaluate options and narrow your
  possible dreams to the one
• Think of someone who has achieved a dream similar
  to yours
• How did they achieve their dream
• Place any information you collect on a blog
  (online journal) to share with others

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• The Puzzler Pathway
• The pathway puzzler is about students being able
  to
• realistically address pathways and obstacles in
  the planning
• of achieving a dream
• Student will go to a website and complete a
  Snakes
• Ladders game that addresses pathways and
  obstacles or
• develop one of their own puzzles.
• Internet site? Need to look at website addresses
  that might have games.

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PART THREE SHARE MY DREAMS

• Share my dream with others
• The sharing of a dream can take place via email,
  the classroom or a blog. Depending on your group
  of students and how well they know each other.
• Discuss a dream that you have, in class with
  others
• List all SIOT student email addresses from class
  mates for the sharing of information.
• Make a file of all the information relevant to
  your dream
• Share information with all class via email.

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• Present my dream via Power Point
• This presentation is the students plan of action,
• how they might achieve their goals. How they see
• themselves achieving their goals, with a
  realistic
• view on the action plan, taking into account
• pathways and obstacles.
• Develop a written story board on how you might
  achieve your dream
• Develop a Power Point presentation on what your
  dream is about and how you can achieve this dream
• Present this to the class

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PART FOUR FUTURE DREAM MAKER.COM

• What does my future dream look like?
• This is the students view on where they see
  themselves in a
• few years time and what their dream might look
  like. A
• digital story they might take away with them to
  look at in the
• future.
• Think about your dream and what it might look
  like in the future (after you have achieved your
  dream)
• Take or collect photos that represent your dream
  in the future
• Write down words that represent your dream
• Develop a Digital Story about the achievement of
  your dream.

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• Where to from here
• We have teachers involved in the LearnScope
  project trialling the E-learning tools on
  students to see if the students are engaged in
  their learning.
• We are setting up PD for teaching staff to use
  the e-learning tools in the classroom
• Lesson Plan and e-learning tools will be put on
  the TAFE website for staff to access.
• We will trial the Lesson Plan in 2006 with at
  risk young people.