Top 10 Must Do's: A Great Way To Start 2012

To cultivate planner and website habits that will enable students, teachers and parents to optimise the resources provided for them in the Learning Curve, following is a suggested list of must dos at the beginning of the school year.

1. As a class read How to best use the Learning Curve (page 3), and Checklists (page 5) to learn about the structured approach for daily, weekly, monthly, term and semester learning and teaching.

2. Download the Quiz for each planner from the Student section of the website and as a class complete it to gain a clear understanding of what is on offer to assist them in the planners.

3. Ask students to read the Student Guide for their Year Level from the Student section of the website and discover the resources available to help them shine in their section.

4. Open the Teacher section and read the Teacher Guide to learn about how to use the planners and website to explicitly cultivate powerful learning habits.

5. Go to the Teacher section of the website and open Lesson Plans; there is one for every weekly focus and for the focuses in the front section of the planners.

6. While in the Teacher Section open Pastoral Care to view the 100 life values worksheets available.

7. Also in the Teacher Section open Teacher Resources to view the vast array of activities and strategies available to reduce workload and enhance whole school consistency.

8. Open the Newsletter section and then Monthly Themes to view the following whole school options available for a weekly, fortnightly or monthly approach to using the Learning Curve. Choose the time span which best suits your school:

• Weekly - read Weekly Whole School Focus Articles (link with weekly lesson plans)
• Weekly/Fortnightly – Secondary Newsletter Articles
• Monthly - Monthly Themes (links for students, parents and teachers)

9. Open Professional Readings to view the down to earth articles to assist your professional learning. A new reading is posted on website every fortnight and sign up on the left hand side of the web page to receive them by email free of charge.

10. As a class go to the “Personal Learning Goals and Reflection Time” pages in the planner and read personal learning goals. Ask all students to set three learning goals for semester one.