The Situation Your students are tired out after long periods of academic work. The Solution Research tells us that students need to move if they are going to find any hope of learning and retaining information. Think of your own context for a moment. When you are tired, what do you do? Pick up the … Continue reading Brain Break
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Jot Thoughts
AITSL STANDARD: 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 categorise information, cooperatively. The Solution Organising and categorising information is a classically higher-order thinking task. Sometimes, in English, you will need students to organise … Continue reading Jot Thoughts
Exit Ticket
The Situation You need to conclude your lesson and show that your students understand the learning. The Solution After you have completed the main activity of your lesson, how do you know that the students have really got it? This is the exit ticket or plenary. In this section of your lesson, you need to … Continue reading Exit Ticket
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See, Think, Wonder
The Situation You want to develop your students ability to read a visual text. The Solution Often when students look at a text, they attempt to process it all of the image at the same time. That is, instead of stopping and considering the elements of an image, they glance and develop an idea immediately. … Continue reading See, Think, Wonder
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