Cranbourne Secondary College PEDAGOGY TOOLBOX – Page 2 – Click on each phase of The Gradual Release of Responsbility to access strategies to support your teaching and learning.

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,…

Justification Flow Chart

This strategy will help students to: Identify why their decision is correct or best. It is particularly useful for writing paragraphs that give a step by step visual account of…

Judge Jury

This strategy will help students to: The Judge Jury provides feedback to both teachers and students as to how well they have researched the topic. It is a great activity…

Critical and Creative Thinking…

PCQ (Pros, Cons, Questions)

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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…

Modelling and Demonstrating

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This strategy will help students to: Modelling is used as an instructional move when the lesson addresses using a cognitive process, such as reading, writing, mathematics and such. Demonstrating is…

Four Square Reflections

This strategy will help students to: reflect on what they have read using guiding questions to prompt their thinking. Implementation: After completing the focused instruction component of the lesson, students…

Annotating Texts

This strategy will help students to: guided annotation of a text including summarising, circling, underlining and making margin notes, can improve student understanding of new concepts and helps students to…

Concept Mapping

This strategy will help students to: Plan Recap Revise Implementation: Students read a text, topic, or question. Underlining or taking note of the key concepts and ideas in the text,…

Membership Grid

This strategy will help students to: Giving groups a low risk, non-academic topic to discuss before they start to complete collaborative work, helps students to develop friendly working relationships. It…

Formative Assessment…

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…