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

Administrative Notes…

CAT Moderation

6 Jan 20206 Jan 2020

Watch the video below to see an example of how a Learning Area could conduct a CAT Moderation Session. CAT Moderation Thankyou to Cranbourne Secondary College's Science Learning Area…

Administrative Notes…

Delivering a Common Assessment Task (CAT)

6 Jan 20206 Jan 2020

Watch the video below to watch an example of how a CAT could be delievered to your class. Delivering a CAT to your class. Thankyou to Stuart Greig…

Critical and Creative Thinking

Barometer – Taking a Stand on Controversial Issues

Description: The Barometer teaching strategy helps students share their opinions by asking them to line up along a continuum based on their position on an issue. It is especially…

Critical and Creative Thinking…

Silent Discussions (Big Paper)

Description: This discussion strategy uses writing and silence as tools to help students explore a topic in depth. In a Big Paper discussion, students write out their responses to a…

Critical and Creative Thinking…

Readers’ Theatre

Description: In an activity based on the Readers’ Theatre strategy, groups of students are assigned a text excerpt to present to their peers. As opposed to presenting skits of the…

Critical and Creative Thinking…

Town Hall

Description: This teaching strategy mimics the process of a town hall meeting, where community members take the floor to share their perspective on a topic of concern. Using this format,…

Justification Flow Chart

This strategy will help students to: Identify why their decision is correct or best. It is particularly useful for writing paragraphs that give a step by step visual account of…

Judge Jury

This strategy will help students to: The Judge Jury provides feedback to both teachers and students as to how well they have researched the topic. It is a great activity…

Critical and Creative Thinking…

PCQ (Pros, Cons, Questions)

26 Dec 201917 Feb 2020

This strategy will help students to: PCQ is a basic tool used by the critical thinker to analyse any situation before deciding whether or not to support it. The PCQ…

Modelling and Demonstrating

26 Dec 201926 Dec 2019

This strategy will help students to: Modelling is used as an instructional move when the lesson addresses using a cognitive process, such as reading, writing, mathematics and such. Demonstrating is…