Critical and Creative Thinking – Cranbourne Secondary College PEDAGOGY TOOLBOX

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Literacy Strategies To Engage Students With Content In Any Subject.

22 Aug 202023 Aug 2020

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Feedback Ladder

This strategy will help students to: Consolidate their own knowledge by providing feedback to their peers Think critically about the work of their peers Implementation: Students use the graphic organiser…

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Stars & Stairs

This strategy will help students to: Consolidate their own knowledge by providing feedback to their peers Think critically about the work of their peers Implementation: Students describe what their…

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Thinker’s Keys:

This strategy will allow students to: Think Critically and Creatively Problem Solve Create Novel Ideas Implementation: Create activities about your particular subject area using one or more the thinker's keys…

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Hot Potato

This strategy will help students to: demonstrate their prior knowledge about a topic This strategy will help teachers to: Formatively assess student readiness to learn a particular skill Implementation:…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…