Cranbourne Secondary College PEDAGOGY TOOLBOX – Click on each phase of The Gradual Release of Responsbility to access strategies to support your teaching and learning.

Combination Notes

This strategy will help students to: Similar to Cornell notes, combination notes allow students to organise and process new knowledge while it is being presented to them. Like Cornell notes,…

Office Lens

This app lets you take pictures of whiteboards or printed documents, then enhances your photo by cropping, sharpening, and straightening it, so it looks almost like a scanned image. This…

CLYP Voice Recording

Clyp allows you and your students to create a voice recording, and share it with a downloadable link or embed it into presentations. This strategy will help students to: record…

Formative Assessment…

FlipGrid

4 May 20194 May 2019

Flipgrid is a tool that allows teachers to upload discussion-style questions and students to answer by adding video responses. This strategy will help students to: record their answers to questions…

Literacy Strategies

Writing Break

20 Mar 20194 May 2019

Children recall between 10 and 30 percent of what they read, hear, and see. By incorporating Writing Breaks at regular intervals, we can improve retention because writing and then talking…

Literacy Strategies

Frequent Contact

20 Mar 201921 Mar 2019

This strategy will help students to: Frequent contact gives students an opportunity to think about, discuss, categorize, and use words based on the inferences students make about a variety of clustered…

Literacy Strategies

Possible Questions

20 Mar 201921 Mar 2019

This strategy will help students to: use specialised academic vocabulary words from an upcoming text to predict possible questions they believe the text will answer. Students may revisit their questions…

Literacy Strategies

Freyer Model

20 Mar 201921 Mar 2019

This strategy will help students to: Understand a new concept through the use of attributes and non attributes. It can also be useful to assess student’s prior knowledge of a…

Critical and Creative Thinking…

Peer assessment

8 Mar 201921 Mar 2019

This strategy will help students to: discuss and moderate other students' work in order to formulate an improved response. Implementation: Students write a response to a question or an…

Formative Assessment…

Quizlet

8 Mar 201921 Mar 2019

Description: Quizlet is an online revision tool where staff and students can create and share quizzes, flashcards, tests, diagrams and more. You can create items in Quizlet and have access…