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

Literacy Strategies

Vocabulary Cube

This strategy will help students to: help students to learn and understand key vocabulary in your subject. Implementation: There are many ways in which a teacher could implement this strategy.…

Activating Prior Knowledge

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VASS and VCE Data Professional Learning

2 May 20212 May 2021

1a. VCE Data Service Briefing (6.20) 1b. How to access the VCE Data Service on VASS (OPTIONAL) (4.06) 2a. Analysing VASS Data Briefing (7.23) 2b. How to access VCE External…

One Minute Write

This strategy will help students to: Personally connect and engage with what they are reading. One Minute Write is a simple reflection strategy for after you have read a passage,…

Reading with a question in mind

This strategy will help students to: Personally connect and engage with what they are reading. Reading with a question in mind is a during reading strategy that helps to encourage…

Probable Passages

This strategy will help students to: personally connect and engage with what they are reading. Probable Passages is a before reading activity that aims to ‘get knowledge ready’ for reading…

Stick It Together

9 Mar 20219 Mar 2021

This strategy will help students to: •Problem Solve independently and with a group •Consolidate their own thinking •Show respect and value for the skills, experiences, creativity, and contributions of group…

Formative Assessment

Rewordify.com

8 Mar 20219 Mar 2021

The the premise of the website is that a student or teacher can paste in a slab of text into the program, and it will simplify the language based on the…

Administrative Notes

Understanding PIVOT Surveys

Students, please watch this short video to understand the process, value and importance of our PIVOT surveys. https://youtu.be/vsvd57tRNoc Thank you to Enza Sepe for this video.

Critical and Creative Thinking

Compass Points

21 Feb 202121 Feb 2021

This Strategy will help students to: Critically examine an idea or proposition Implementation:Have students develop their ideas in relation to the four compass points: E = ExcitedWhat excites you about…