Wheel Work

Where Theory Meets Practice

Wheel Work is a pedagogical process that engages students as they learn how to construct, produce and critique knowledge. This process creates a pathway for students to work in the 'flow zone' a term coined by Csikszentmihalyi (1988) who defines 'flow' as the experience felt when a person is intrinsically motivated and highly engrossed in a task which matches their skill level. 'Flow' is the key model underpinning Wheel Work.

This unique educational process provides the incentive and opportunity for all learners to master life long learning skills. It enriches the gifted and talented students, inspires the gifted underachieves and other underachievers, reveals and inspires the gifted 'invisible' underachievers (Chaffey, 2002) and nurtures the natural love of learning for all students.

Within the Wheel Work process the teacher acts as facilitator, encouraging sustained interaction, setting high expectations and explicit quality criteria.

The Wheel Work process is structured around Blooms Taxonomy and is integrated with curriculum, Key Competencies and Information Literacy Skills. Students have opportunities to apply their knowledge, understandings and skills learnt across all curriculum Key Learning Areas, to new tasks and situations. Through this integration they demonstrate deep understanding as they manipulate information and ideas to solve problems and create new meanings and understandings.

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The Wheel Work Process