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Creating and using concept maps tends to have a high positive impact on student achievement.* Concept maps (graphic organisers) help students to see how various pieces of knowledge relate to one another. It helps structure their thinking. ** Venn diagrams are one type of graphic organiser that illustrate similarities, differences, and relationships between concepts, ideas, categories, or groups. This scaffold takes the functionality of Venn Diagrams one step further and uses the dynamic of overlapping circles not only to make categories of information visible, but to actually be the venue through which – by analysing patterns – students can teach themselves new concepts. This is the fundamental goal of scaffolding – to create activities for students that help them pull on past knowledge to move into new knowledge – and to become more independent learners.
Here we use the index for a university degree on International Relations. The goal is for students to begin connecting the concepts of the 2-year course, right from the beginning, and to make these connections themselves. This will set the tone for the rest of the course, in that the students will be the ones through whom the ideas spring, and the class dynamic will be one of collaboration, as much as possible. In this case, through interaction and dialogue***, students will explore what ties diverse concepts together what will be their studies. By having the opportunity to talk about this on their own before reading about different opinions in textbooks or from other sources (direct teaching), learning will go deeper and be more meaningful for them in the long term.
* (Hattie, 2012) CLIL VENN DIAGRAMS
** (Mehisto, 2017) CLIL VENN DIAGRAMS
*** You’ll see that we’ll need to give our students the academic language necessary to be able to talk about the concepts in the diagrams. CLIL VENN DIAGRAMS
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