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In staff meetings and planning sessions, we did some work on understanding the inquiry process with an emphasis on throughlines. For a little while we were all confused, until Lindy found a perfect definition that helped us:

"Throughlines are overarching goals, big ideas or concepts which describe the most important understandings that students will develop over time. Throughlines can also be expressed as overarching questions and provide a ‘big picture’ for students to make connections with what is learned in school and beyond." //Victorian Essential Learning Standards// Actually we sort of had it all along. We decided to tackle a whole school throughline focusing on learning skills. It seemed like an ideal topic to empower our students to take more responsibility for their own learning, and to enhance thinking skills as well. Our Learning to Learn unit had a different focus at each year level as you can see from this Wiki: http://learning-to-learn.wikispaces.com/


 * This is what contemporary learning looks like at Our Lady's.**

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