Seven Principles of Learning OECD - CERI - CHRIS STACEY

Seven Principles for Teaching

What do the 7 Principles of Learning mean
for Yukon educators and their students?

Yukon educators understand the significance of the seven principles of learning in their classrooms, and are exploring ways to ensure these principles are at the core of their students' learning environments.
Click below for some examples of Yukon educators putting the Seven Principles of Learning into action.

Put Learners at the Centre

The learning environment recognizes the learners as its core participants, encourages their active engagement, and develops in them an understanding of their own activity as learners.

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Emphasize the Social Nature of Learning

The learning environment is founded on the social nature of learning and actively encourages well-organized co-operative learning.

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Understand that Emotions are Central to Learning

The learning professionals within the learning environment are highly tuned to the learners' motivations and the key role of emotions in achievement.

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Recognize Individual Differences

The learning environment is acutely sensitive to the individual differences among the learners in it, including their prior knowledge.

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Stretch All Learners

The learning environment devises programs that demand hard work and challenge from all, but without excessive overload.

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Assess for Learning

The learning environment operates with clarity of expectations, using assessment strategies consistent with these expectations; there is a strong emphasis on formative feedback to support learning.

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Build Horizontal Connections

The learning environment strongly promotes "horizontal connectedness" across knowledge areas and subjects, as well as to the community and the wider world.

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Yukon educators also use the Seven Principles for their Professional Growth. Click below to see how:

7 Principles for Professional Growth

See how the Seven Principles play an important role in Yukon educators' inquiries.

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