Self Directed Learning and Year 9 Maths

Students in a Year 9 Maths class at Hagley College are leading their own learning with the support of Microsoft Teams. Students are completing a Statistical Inquiry and are using a Word document Assignment to show their learning. Teams enables each student to edit their own copy of an assignment and the teacher is able to view and edit each assignment at any time too.

The Statistical Inquiry assignment contains questions to scaffold student learning and the questions link to an Education Perfect activity or show a page in students Maths textbook. Students are able to lead their own learning by clicking on links or looking up pages of their textbook in their own time to complete their inquiry.

Using technology to support self directed inquiry based learning enables the teacher to do less "whole class" teaching and provide more individualised support to students as they need it. The information from Education Perfect also enables the teacher to see individual student progress and understanding.

"This way I can learn at my own pace, not having to wait for everyone else in the class. Sometimes it is easier to look at the Education Perfect link or sometimes it is easier to look it up in the textbook" Student A.