These strategies encourage the analysis, organisation, review and reflection of information.

These teaching strategies help students to:

  • plan and organise information and understandings
  • summarise key information
  • clarify relationships or associations between information and ideas
  • draw conclusions
  • enhance learning and boost memory
  • foster creativity, critical thinking and problem solving
  • enhance presentation skills
  • promote group collaboration
  • compare and contrast ideas, feelings and information.

Mind map mind map

  • Create a mind map by placing the main theme at the centre of the page. This can be an image, word or both.
  • Create subthemes by drawing branches from the main theme.
  • Use words, phrases, colour, shapes, pictures and symbols. to connect ideas and themes around the main theme.
  • Use digital tools such as Canva, Xmind, Bubble.us, Popplet.
  • The SECCA app is a free resource with over 2000 RSE images that can be helpful for mind maps.

 

Art expression person doing art

  • Use art opportunities to represent understanding of concepts. 
  • For example, using abstract art to represent feelings, relationships, etc. 
  • Individual or collaborative artwork using different mediums can be used - collage, mural, digital, paint, textile, sculpture, etc.

 

 


 

T chart and Y chart

  • Compare and contrast two concepts with a T chart, and three concepts with a Y chart.
  • Y charts can record what something looks like, sounds like, feels like. (e.g. consent)
  • T charts can record what something is and isn't (e.g. consent)

Venn diagram

  • A graphic organiser to group and separate ideas and concepts.
  • Can be used for concepts such as puberty - social, emotional and physical changes.

Comic strips

  • Draw a comic strip or cartoon to represent RSE scenarios.
    •  e.g. assertive communication to deny consent, help seeking when someone is feeling unsafe, etc.
  • Students can draw their own comics in full or be given a cartoon with thought bubbles and text blanked out that they fill in.

Newspaper headlines

  • Write an opinion about an RSE issue described in a newspaper headline. 

 

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