My World at Matthew Moss

Matthew Moss High School

Strategic awareness is one of the ELLI dimensions. ELLI stands for Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory, which helps us through life and we can use these dimensions without even noticing it! It seems like Strategic awareness comes naturally to people who love planning their time, but it takes effort and practise to become good at planning.

A definition for strategic awareness can be planning and being organised with your learning; we do this a lot at school to help us with our learning but it is used outside of school too. For example, every night students should organise and plan their bag for the following day; it’s the same for teachers, who should plan their lessons the night before. At school we have a planner to record our homework and special days because otherwise we would forget.

In My World I remember planning the island project with my group and we used thinking maps to organise our learning. It makes life easier when you plan things by having strategic awareness and is good for anything really, even for planning a day trip to the zoo!

I remember in My World lessons where we had to think of animals/creatures to represent each of the ELLI dimensions. For strategic awareness we chose a spider. The spiders web takes a lot of time to plan and it’s really the perfect trap.

Next week, one of my classmates will write about the “learning relationships” ELLI dimension.

By Amna Ajaib, year 7.