Information Literacy Cards.

The information literacy card available here.  Have proved very useful by ensuring a range of appropriate activities are used in the unit of work.  The colours have proved  very powerful in helping colleagues to evaluate the schemes of work.  There is a general tendency for  one or two colours to dominate.  I think this would have been very hard to see without this step in the planning process and helps to ensure a good and balanced variety of activities are included in the unit, as far as is possible.  Likewise the activity profile provides a clear and concise picture of how students are required to use their time in lesson.  When these activity profiles were first used to analyse  previous units we were surprised to see how much time was spend on Assimilative activities and how little time was spent on Communicative activities.  The activity profile helped us balance the schemes of work so they reflect constructivist learning principles rather than didactic teaching principles.