Developing a Framework for Powerful Learning

The PEEL Principles:

1. Share intellectual control with students.
2. Look for occasions when students can work out part (or all) of the content or instructions.
3. Provide opportunities for choice and independent decision-making.
4. Provide a diverse range of ways of experiencing success.
5. Promote talk which is exploratory, tentative and hypothetical.
6. Encourage students to learn from other students' questions and comments.
7. Build a classroom environment that supports risk-taking.
8. Use a wide variety of intellectually challenging teaching procedures.
9. Use teaching procedures that are designed to promote specific aspects of quality learning.
10. Develop the students' awareness of the big picture: how the various activities fit together and link to the big idea.
11. Regularly raise students' awareness of the nature of different aspects of quality learning.
12. Promote assessment as part of the learning process.

Reference:

Michell, Ian (ed.) (2005) Teaching for Effective Learning: The complete book of PEEL teaching procedures, Clayton, Vic.: PEEL Publishing