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PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING FOR QUALITY LEARNING

The 12 principles below have been developed in the
Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL)
since its inception in 1985.


PEEL is led by teachers working across subjects in school groups.
The PEEL website is http://www.peelweb.org.
PEEL is based in the Faculty of Education
at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

 

Please read
Goals, Outcomes and Features of PEEL
for an overview of the project.

 

PEEL in Practice: 1200 Ideas for Quality Teaching (2005)
is available as a CD-ROM from the
Campus Bookstore at Queen's University.


The CD-ROM is Windows only,
but the Campus Bookstore also sells on-line access to the database.
FREE ACCESS to the database for two weeks
is available at the website above.

 

 

 

Photo © PEEL, 2004 (used by permission)

Principles of Teaching for Quality Learning

1. Share intellectual control with students.
2. Look for occasions when students can work out part (or all) of the content or instructions.
3. Provide opportunities for choice and independent decision-making.
4. Provide diverse range of ways of experiencing success.
5. Promote talk which is exploratory, tentative and hypothetical.
6. Encourage students to learn from other students' questions and comments.
7. Build a classroom environment that supports risk-taking.
8. Use a wide variety of intellectually challenging teaching procedures.
9. Use teaching procedures that are designed to promote specific aspects of quality learning.
10. Develop students' awareness of the big picture: how various activities fit together and link to the big ideas.
11. Regularly raise students' awareness of the nature of different aspects of quality learning.
12. Promote assessment as part of the learning process.

Visitors to this page will be interested in the similarities between these 12 Principles and 5 "Lessons" for teachers
extracted from Physics Education Research since 1980 by Randall D. Knight and reported in his 2004 book,
FIVE EASY LESSONS (published by Addison Wesley).
For further information, please contact Tom Russell
Updated 11 August 2005

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