Resource-Based
Learning - FAQ
How can I give assignments when the students do not all have the same book?
- Planning for use of resources must go hand in hand with planning for instructional strategies and evaluation techniques for each lesson.
- Explore a variety of instructional strategies so you can have various types of activities on the same topic going on at once, utilizing various resources of which you may have only one copy. Here are two suggested sources of information:
- Some students may require adoptations through use of different resources this can be an opportunity to have that flexibility.
- Students need to use and develop all of their language capacities. Utilizing a variety of resources may well afford opportunities to explore learning through listening, viewing, and observing and to respond through speaking and representing, thus using many forms of media.
- Assignments need to be developed that allow students to construct meaning and produce information rather than look up the right answer. If you need students to read a similar passage to respond to specific information try small groups or partnering, an overhead projector, a data projector, or some other tool that can provide a shared reading opportunity.
- Use the resources on Centralischool or adapt them to suit your needs they include many online learning objects.
How can I be effective in planning and providing for resource-based learning?
- Teaching occurs over a whole year, through many subjects, units, and lessons with many opportunities to incorporate a wide variety of learning resources for gathering, processing, evaluating and sharing information. There are many strategies and activities that need to be used as part of teaching. Find a balance but be sure to use learning resources effectively to meet the needs of your students in achieving the curriculum objectives.
- Find the section in each curriculum that outlines the opportunities for resource-based learning in your subject area use that as a planning tool.
- Articulate the skills you feel you need to develop in students and develop a plan for integration and teaching at the various grade level.
- Working collaboratively is a very effective way of creating resource-based learning opportunities find a colleague, teacher-librarian or special education teacher who would like to work with you.
- Develop a unit plan template that will provide a systematic incorporation of use of learning resources into your planning.
How can I have a variety of resources available to the students?
- Each year, Saskatchewan Learning issues the Selective Listings for that year. This is the best of the best that is, items that have been evaluated for curriculum fit, grade level, and theme. There is also an effort made to provide balance for all the main topics within a specific curriculum. Also look at the Learning Resources Update for each year, to add new items to your collection in small increments.
- Resources in the bibliographies may have "other uses" listed this means a resource can be useful to support two or more curriculum areas.
- There is a collection of high quality viewo programs available to schools through the Media Group Duplication Service. Media Group provides video duplication at a nominal cost. 1-888-682-8808
- Saskatchewan Communictions Network (SCN) broadcasts several programs listed in the Media Group catalogues that can support curriculum.
- Educational databases are licensed throughout the province by the MultiType Library Board. You can access them via the Evergreen Curriculum Resources.
- Also available on the Evergreen Curriculum Resources page on the Saskatchewan Learning website is an online General Reference Centre and a URL Database of subject specific websites .
- Human resources are another valuable resource in many cases.
- School divisions may have a central resource collection, inter-school library loan policies, and professional resource sharing opportunities.
- Your local public library or the STF Stewart Resource Centre are other sources of resources.
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