Introducing ESL New Arrivals to Thinking Skills’ language and Thinking Processes, before they transition to mainstream schools, where project and inquiry-based learning, to help students develop critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills, is the focus of teaching and learning.
So that:
ESL New Arrivals are better able to cope with the language of thinking and understand the Thinking Processes in the VELS (Victorian Essential Learning Standards) Interdisciplinary Strand which is required in an Inquiry and Project based learning environment in mainstream schools
ESL New Arrivals are better able to cope with the language of thinking and understand the Thinking Processes in the VELS (Victorian Essential Learning Standards) Interdisciplinary Strand which is required in an Inquiry and Project based learning environment in mainstream schools