AITSL STANDARD: 4.1 - Support student participation Establish and implement inclusive and positive interactions to engage and support all students in classroom activities. AITSL STANDARD: 5.1 - Assess student learning Develop, select and use informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies to assess student learning. The Situation Your students find it difficult to … Continue reading Socratic Circle
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Think, Pair, Share
AITSL STANDARDS: 3.3 - Use teaching strategies Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem solving and critical and creative thinking. The Situation You want your students to collaborate equally. The Solution A Think, Pair, Share is a fundamental cooperative activity that you can run with students if you want them to … Continue reading Think, Pair, Share
Creating Learning Stations
AITSL STANDARD: 1.5 - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities. The Situation You want to provide your students with a variety of activities that … Continue reading Creating Learning Stations
Visualization and Creative Writing
AITSL STANDARD: 1.5 - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities. The Situation Often, I find that students are quite vague about where their story … Continue reading Visualization and Creative Writing
Teaching…Denotations and Connotations
The Situation Your students need to understand that words have specific meanings and are used in specific contexts. The Solution You need to teach your students about denotations and connotations. Denotations refer to what an object literally is. For example: An owl is literally a bird. A diamond ring is literally a piece of jewellery. The colour black … Continue reading Teaching…Denotations and Connotations
The English Classroom 