Formative Assessment – Cranbourne Secondary College PEDAGOGY TOOLBOX

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,…

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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…

Data Strategies…

Quizizz

Quizizz allows you to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages. This strategy will help students to: test their knowledge on a particular topic. This strategy will…

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‘Flash’

This strategy will help students to: Revise subject content Consolidate their own thinking Show respect and value for the skills, experiences, creativity, and contributions of group members. Implementation: 1.The teacher…

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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…