Both students developed a strong consumer conscience. They both understood the traps and tricks played by businesses and advertisers. Both students engaged with the material at a high level partly because of the research but both enjoyed expressing their opinion and feeling like they had something to say. There is strong evidence that they refined and added to their grasp of the metalanguage inherent in this unit. They identified that the topic of financial literacy was important and engaging, music to my ears as an educator. S3 has a much stronger grasp of the micro function of the economy but S1 also understands some of the international ramifications of the economy. Both students wrote their reflections well after the end of the unit of work which is evidence of learner transformation and that the new concepts and information were written to their long term memory helping to make them savvy consumers for the rest of their lives.
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Christian, great work. This is really impressive work! Your action research, detailed analysis, and devotion of thinking so critically about your students’ achievement in this learning unit is inspiring! –> Ryan
Thanks Ryan, it’s nice to put in effort and have it recognised! Actually it was just lucky I already had to complete action research for a school project and I was able to also post it for uni! Like so much of the work the Australians have done for this Masters it is just based around our core business at school. Awesome to be recognised for regular teaching and learning.