About Productive Pedagogies

Productive Pedagogies are classroom strategies that teachers can use to focus instruction and improve student outcomes. When planning learning experiences, teachers can review the pedagogies to see which are best suited to teaching the particular knowledges and skills involved.

There are 20 Productive Pedagogies in the New Basics Framework, grouped under four categories.

Recognition of difference

Teachers use these pedagogies to ensure that students know about and value a range of cultures, create positive human relationships, respect individuals, and help to create a sense of community.

Connectedness

Teachers use these pedagogies to ensure that students engage with real, practical or hypothetical problems which connect to the world beyond the classroom, which are not restricted by subject boundaries and which are linked to their prior knowledge.

Intellectual quality

Teachers use these pedagogies to ensure that students manipulate information and ideas in ways that transform their meaning and implications, understand that knowledge is not a fixed body of information, and can coherently communicate ideas, concepts, arguments and explanations with rich detail.

Supportive classroom environment

Teachers use these pedagogies to ensure that students influence the nature of the activities they undertake, engage seriously in their study, regulate their behaviour, and know of the explicit criteria and high expectations of what they are to achieve.

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