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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
- 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
- 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.