Routines and Ways of Working – to establish in the first few weeks of school (Year 7 2017)

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

 

 

 

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