Elements of a Learning Situation

Block 1 Training DBE (FBD) Winter 2016

The learning situation is the heart of the Diversified Basic Education (DBE) program.  In order to explore the elements of a learning situation and familiarize participants with the ESL Program of Study and General Introduction to Programs of Study, participants were broken into teams and given a question to research.  Each team presented the answer to their question to the other workshop participants.  Here are the questions that were distributed amongst the teams:

1. What are the elements of a good learning situation? (ESL Program of Study, p.11)
2. What is a Family of Learning Situations? What FLS are used in our program? (ESL Program of Study, p. 11-14, 42-46)
3. What is a Competency? What are Subject-Specific Competencies? (ESL Program of Study, p. 17-35)
4. What does Subject-Specific Content mean? (ESL Program of Study, p. 41-56)
5. What are Processes and Strategies? (ESL Program of Study, p. 36-37)
6. What are Cross-Curricular Competencies? (General Introduction to the Programs of Study, 25-34)
7. What are Broad Areas of Learning? (General Introduction to the Programs of Study, 13-22)
8. What does Pedagogical Intention mean?

As teams explained their answers to each question, the trainers presented the elements of a learning situation created for ANG-4101-2 (Dare to Compare) called Shopping for a Smartphone.