Improving schools in Papua New Guinea

Year level: Upper primary / Lower secondary Learning outcome   Students will examine the issue of learning in the vernacular language (mother tongue) through de Bono's Thinking Hats. Read Improving schools in Papua New Guinea. Interview someone who speaks another language about how they found their early years of school. Survey the resources available in your school for people who do not speak English. Evaluate whether these are sufficient for the needs of the families in your school who do not speak English. Use de Bono's Thinking Hats to express your ideas about learning in a language you speak and understand in the first two years of primary school. Red hat represents feelings about an issue. White hat represents the facts about an issue. Yellow hat represents the positive aspects of an issue. Black hat represents the negative aspects. Green hat represents creative solutions or alternatives. Blue hat represents the thinking about the bigger picture or what the issue is really all about. Discuss Could a vernacular language program be used in your primary school? Assessment task   Make a statement about the value of the learning in vernacular languages.