Kategorier: Alla - engagement - guidance - originality - independence

av Carol Vezina för 6 årar sedan

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Rich Tasks

Effective educational activities are designed to foster a variety of skills and attitudes in learners. Such tasks should be open-ended, allowing for multiple solutions and encouraging students to build confidence and independence.

Rich Tasks

Rich Tasks Success Criteria

Encourages learners to develop confidence and independence

Provide space for individual and collaborative work space

A rich task can have multiple starts and end points

It needs to go beyond what the student already knows

It relates to real issues and has a purpose

It should encourage originality and invention (ex: building their own robot or a scale building of their choice)

The rich task is interdisciplinary (across many subjects)

Students should be able to work through task according to their own strenghts

Teacher must be skillful and provide guidance to individuals or groups that require that extra support (observe and hear what is going on while students are learning) ("Just in time" development of a concept)

Has the ability to engage ALL students

Open ended problem that can have a variety of solutions

Promotes active learning and movement

Rich task should support individual and group goals

It must be challenging for students

Topics covered must be interesting