Last month, Lexis Education’s Director John Polias delivered a presentation at the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association Conference on improving students’ science literacy through harmonising the patterns of meaning-making in the science classroom.
In this video, John talks about how we, as teachers, can achieve this by:
- providing macro-, meso- and micro-scaffolding;
- ensuring that the patterns in the way science is taught resonate with the patterns in the content;
- providing multiple access points to the meanings in science.
This is a great presentation full of practical classroom examples (incl. the water cycle, how the human ear works and the absorption of food).