Formative Assessment – Cranbourne Secondary College PEDAGOGY TOOLBOX

Critical and Creative Thinking…

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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Learning Apps Interactive Games

This strategy will help students to: Demonstrate their skills and knowledge in an interactive way. Implementation: Go to LearningApps.org You can choose to Browse pre-made Apps by Subject or Category…

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,…

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…

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Blogging

This strategy will help students to: Create personal journal websites on which a user can type an entry, add images, video and links to other websites. Readers of a blog…

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Literacy Think Aloud

This strategy will help students to: Uncover their own thinking processes as they learn and understand a concept. Implementation: As a student reads a text or performs a task ask…

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A Ticket Out The Door

This strategy will help students to: Demonstrate that they have understood new learning in a lesson Helps students remember and reflect on what they have learnt Promotes students using new…

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Think Alouds

This strategy will help students to: Prepare students to surface their own thinking processes as they learn and understand a new concept, skill or strategy Make thinking transparent Implementation:…

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Collaborative Posters

This strategy will help students to: Express their ideas, values, and beliefs Apply listening and speaking skills Solve problems and identify solutions Implementation: Students work with peers to create a…

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Track Errors and find Error Patterns

6 Nov 20196 Nov 2019

This strategy will help students to: Have errors identified by their teacher during lessons so that instructional adjustments can be made and targeted teaching if necessary Feedback occurs during independent…