Graphic Organisers – Cranbourne Secondary College PEDAGOGY TOOLBOX

Graphic Organisers…

Cornell Notes

This strategy will allow students to: Comprehend what they are reading but also It asks the readers to ‘dig deep’ into texts, to ensure they develop a deep understanding of…

Critical and Creative Thinking…

Group Grid Of Knowledge

11 Oct 202011 Oct 2020

This strategy will help students to: Generate ideas around a question or topicencourage collaboration and team problem solvingincrease accountability and involvement in own learning. Implementation: Allocate each student to a…

Critical and Creative Thinking…

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…

Formative Assessment…

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…

Critical and Creative Thinking…

Connect, Extend, Challenge

10 Feb 201921 Mar 2019

This strategy will help students to: make connections between new ideas and prior knowledge take stock of ongoing questions, puzzles and difficulties as they reflect on what they are learning. Implementation:…

Critical and Creative Thinking…

Discussion Roundtable and Placemat

10 Feb 201922 May 2019

Graphic organizers and concept maps are an intermediate step to something else —discussion or writing The difference between a ‘Placemat’ and a ‘Discussion Round Table’: Moving from Surface to deep…