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Leaving Certificate Applied Social Education My Community Aim: to seek to develop students sense of identity and pride in their local area.. ...to use local community as a base for learning. to make students aware of local

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Leaving Certificate Applied Social Education My Community

Aim:

…to seek to develop students’ sense of identity and pride in their local area….. ...to use local community as a base for learning……. …to make students’ aware of local amenities and resources……… …to develop map reading skills……..

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Key Principles

  • Integration across the curriculum
  • Basic skills
  • Active teaching/learning methodologies
  • Reflection
  • Links with the community

Teachers as Facilitators

How do we facilitate learning for the Leaving Certificate Applied student?

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Experiential Learning

  • 1. Experiencing
  • 2. Sharing
  • 3. Understanding
  • 4. Generalising
  • 5. Applying

My Community

Unit 1: Research Skills Unit 2: My Own Place Unit 3: My Family in the Local Area Unit 4: My Own Place in the Past Unit 5: Community Amenities/ Resources Unit 6: Planning in My Own Place

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My Community

Time Allocation: Average 3 classes per week from Sept to end

  • f Jan

Consecutive classes where possible 6 units – approx 8 classes per unit

Unit 1 Research Skills

Practice of the following skills: surveys, questionnaire design, bar charts, pie charts, information searches, internet searches, vox-pop, visit and join local library – take library tour

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Unit 2 My Own Place

  • map of Ireland/locate own county – towns-
  • larger county map- geographical /historical

features

  • O.S. local map – focus on locality
  • calculate distances locally
  • tourism focus
  • local newspaper trawl for

events/information

  • contribute to school notes in local papers

Unit 3 My Family in the Local Area

  • Family history scrapbook
  • Old photographs focus
  • Interview elderly family members
  • Present family story-

book/picture/photographs etc

BE SENSITIVE TO DIFFERING FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES

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Unit 4 My Own Place in the Past

  • local historian guest visit
  • local history tour
  • old photograph exhibition
  • old canal/ railway route walk
  • now and then photo display
  • family names register search
  • guest speaker – elder member of

community

Unit 5 Community Amenities/ Resources

  • Clubs leaflet
  • Local resources survey
  • A tourist guide to the area
  • Town/Local council speaker
  • Tourist office visit/ visit local tourist

spot- arrange talk there.

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Unit 6 Planning in My Own Place

  • County Council visit or speaker
  • Visit to planning office
  • Examine planning applications
  • Do zoning map of local area
  • Survey locals on planning issue
  • Present findings to local councillor

Resources:

  • Maps- O.S.local maps
  • Local newspapers
  • Old photographs
  • Library/ local notice boards
  • Local historian/ history group
  • Tourist office
  • Planning office
  • Local council
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Key Assignments:

  • 4 to be completed by end of January
  • Complete as you go – do not wait until the

end of the module to give assignments

  • Encourage students to the best of their

ability.

  • 1 credit on completion of 4 assignments

and with 90% attendance record.

Key Assignments

I interviewed a senior citizen from my local community about my own place in the past.

  • As part of research skills, you will focus on

interview skills, preparing questions for interview, question types etc.

  • Record interview using mini Dictaphone.
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Key Assignment

I designed and printed a simple leaflet about five different organisations providing a service for young people in my area.

  • Class work will focus on organisations in the

area.

  • Work with Computer teacher for this

assignment.

Key Assignment

I contributed several images to a class collage about our local area.

  • Photograph collage/ Newspaper

collage/Art work…………

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Examination Link:

My Community will be examined at the end of Year 2 in the Social Education Exam. This is an aural and written exam covering the 6 Social Education Modules. Past exam papers are available on www.examinations.ie

Tools to take away:

  • Use mixed methodologies
  • Be organised with folders
  • Take roll every lesson
  • Keep signed records of assignments

completed

  • Set up notice board/papers box/photo

board

  • Get speakers in/ go out of class into

community

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11 Methodologies- vary the approach as much as possible.

  • Pair work/Group work
  • Interviews
  • Vox Pops
  • Word games/word puzzles/word searches
  • Visits to libraries/town hall/council offices
  • Local history tour
  • Guest speakers : Town Development
  • fficer/Elderly citizen/ Local

representatives- tourism-historians