OPEN SOURCE CODE FOR TEACHING METHODOLOGY IN A G.AME FORMAT.
Gamescapes School is a teaching tool and task manager for classrooms that adheres to the standard and practices of the NSW department of education.
It provides lessons, differential learning and assessment for students.
It helps educators in tracking students, applying intervention strategies, and structuring units of work and group activities.
Central to Gamescapes Schools are independent modules with each incorporating teaching activities for multiple intelligences, citizenship, ICT, leadership & teamwork. Each module is taught as either a discrete skill for classroom intervention or as complete teaching unit of work for lessons that require an assessment task to be submitted and students achieve outcomes.
FEATURES
BENEFITS
Students:
Improves the quality of the student’s classroom because:
Parents:
Teachers:
It provides lessons, differential learning and assessment for students.
It helps educators in tracking students, applying intervention strategies, and structuring units of work and group activities.
Central to Gamescapes Schools are independent modules with each incorporating teaching activities for multiple intelligences, citizenship, ICT, leadership & teamwork. Each module is taught as either a discrete skill for classroom intervention or as complete teaching unit of work for lessons that require an assessment task to be submitted and students achieve outcomes.
FEATURES
- Powerful, structured learning aid.
- Tested in NSW & VIC classrooms.
- For home schooling, school of the air, and online courses.
- By an English Teacher with I.T experience.
- Promotes independent learning.
- Rewards students.
- Configurable, generic tools that help manage summative and final assessments.
- Caters to individual students, groups and mentoring.
- Contains templates to manage learning profiles of individual students and implement built in teaching strategies.
- Imbedded Video and Audio.
- Provides classroom and departmental tools for awarding grades and report writing.
- Templates allow teachers to simply create their own lessons.
BENEFITS
Students:
Improves the quality of the student’s classroom because:
- Work is ready as soon as they enter the class.
- It has clear rules, rewarding goals, and interesting format.
- Being digital absentees can easily be given copies of previous work set.
- Provides faster and more accurate feedback.
- Gives students more freedom through independent learning.
- Facilitates students working in groups. •For a wide academic range, every lesson is accessible, attractive, engaging, entertaining, and instructive.
Parents:
- A completely digital teaching game means:
- Parents can know their child’s progress, approach to learning, strengths and weaknesses in the subject, interactive and social skills, and what is being taught each lesson.
- Perfect as homework and home tutoring.
Teachers:
- Saves teachers, students & parents. stress, time & money by already:
- Having planned the lesson.
- Written a a unit of work.
- Gathered materials & textbooks.
- Organised resources prepared them for presentation..
- Grading student’s efforts and submitted work.
- Documents rates of learning for student reports.
- Automates many other existing tasks such as tests.
- Meeting NAPLAN requirements.
- Lessons can be easily tailored for different classes.
- Lesson creator and templates.
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