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