28
Jan
2017
Jan
2017
Routines and Ways of Working – to establish in the first few weeks of school (Year 7 2017)
categories: Improving Student Learning, Planning
Ways of working
Questioning to get to deeper levels of thinking
- posing and answering – orally and in writing
- exit passes
- reflections
Thinking – visibly
- ABCD
- Thumbs/ fingers
- mini-whiteboards
- Plickers
-deeply
- Piggy backing
- clarifying question
- justifying
- giving examples
Making mistakes as a positive part of learning process
Recording
- neat, legible, margin – for feedback
- Cornell Note Taking System – to develop key word note taking, heading and questions, and summarising
SOLO
- develop self assessment and peer assessment against criteria
Goal Setting
- ease of reference
- monitoring
- evaluating
DRAFT (acronym to develop better sentence structure)
- delete
- rearrange
- add connectors
- form new verb endings
- talk it out
Social skills
Above the line/ Below the line behaviours
- What do you want to see, hear, feel in/ about/ from your peers?
- What are some things you don’t want to see, hear, feel about your peers?
POOCH
- Problem, Options, Outcomes, Choice. How did it go?
Routines
Vocabulary development
- Word Wall – included in oral explanations – written
Everyone participating in discussion as much as possible
- monitor
- “__________what do you think?”
- “Can you give an example_________?”
Peer support, constructive criticism
Geography
- Distribution of resources and packing up
- Cornell Note Taking system
- Developing writing along the Register Continuum
- Explore writing styles – in texts we read, including graphs, diagrams, captions, etc.
Maths
- Mental Routine
- whiteboard markers and cloths to erase
- Number Talks
- draw representations to match student’s descriptions
- Structure to meet needs of students
- Recall, Apply, Analyse, Evaluate/ Create
- Help Desk
- Secret Code strategies
- used to describe processes used
- Subitising – expanded
Reading
Pose questions
Answer with
- explanation
- justification
- relate to other ideas/ situations
Here | Hidden | Head | Heart |
who | how | why | personal judgement |
where | characters | ||
when | situation | ||
author’s style | |||
author’s message |