Resource-Based Teaching and Learning
Resource-based teaching and learning caters for individual differences in learning, encourages integration of knowledge, skills and attitudes across the curriculum and assists students to become competent, independent, lifelong learners, who can:
- discriminate when viewing, reading, listening and thinking;
- recognise problems;
- formulate and test hypotheses;
- pose questions and seek answers;
- locate/analyse/evaluate and record information;
- communicate findings effectively using a wide range of techniques and resources.
To satisfy specific curriculum goals, resource-based programs should:
- match resources to sequential information skills and processes;
- recognise the diversity of students’ individual abilities, interests and rate and style of learning;
- replace the concept of learner as mere processor of information with the idea of a self-motivated, self-directed problem solver, aware of processes, skills and uses of learning;
- familiarise students with the use of modern technology as a learning tool;
- develop the learner’s confidence, independence and feelings of self-worth;
- help students appreciate and enjoy various forms of artistic expression and recreational opportunities which contribute to personal development;
- provide a link between the classroom and the outside world.