Discover how providing choice in the classroom can create a more inclusive and engaging learning environment for all students. Learn about the benefits of choice and practical tips for implementing it effectively.
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Building Confident Writers: Strategies and Resources for Engaged Learning
In this post, you will find: ideas, tools and strategies that you could use to support all learners in writing a visual of the ideas, tools and strategies that you can download Writing is a complex skill that many people find challenging to master, especially when faced with barriers that hinder learning the foundational skills … Continue reading Building Confident Writers: Strategies and Resources for Engaged Learning
8 No Prep Ways to Provide Choice in Any Lesson
Why not start small? Providing choices for learners does not have to be extravagant projects or tasks such as choice boards. It can also be the small, simple options we give our learners between projects and tasks. They can be as simple as allowing learners to make a choice about where they sit in the lesson or how they interact when answering a question. These simple choices provide snippets of autonomy for learners and are designed in a way that allows learners to see that they will be successful in at least one of the options.
Practical Strategies to Identify and Leverage Learner Strengths
Traditional education supports our learners who have strengths in language, self-regulation and executive functions but what happens when the learners in front of us don't have those strengths?
+1 Series: Small Routines with Big Impact: Independent Practice
This routine is very simple yet so effective! We all know those learners who need a bit more support or a confidence boost to get them on their way for independent practice of a skill or concept taught. This routine gives learners the autonomy to decide if they are ready for independent practice or not.
+1 Series: Small Routines with Big Impact: Vocabulary Choice Board
We all know how important vocabulary is to reading comprehension and the importance of teaching vocabulary explicitly (Fisher et al., 2016). This routine is used after the explicit teaching of vocabulary. This routine allows learners to review and apply their understanding of the focus word in different ways.
+1 Series: Small Routines with Big Impact: One Minute Pause
One minute pause is a routine that allows learners time to reflect and process the learning that has just occurred. This allows learners to deepen their understanding of the topic just learned (Stein, 2024). This routine is referred to by Elizabeth Stein (2024), as a strategy that teaches within the spaces of teaching.
Many Ways to Assess and Support the Assessment of Speaking Curriculum Standards Other than Oral Presentations
We can support the assessment of speaking standards two different ways depending on the type of standard. Depending on if the standard is a concept standard or a method standard, we can provide choice in the supports we provide to enable learners to achieve success or options in how they demonstrate their learning.
Quick Ideas to Help Students Manage and Organise Their Learning
Students need to have a variety of explicit models and scaffolds to help them develop strategies to manage information and resources. They need to practice using these strategies and scaffolds to work out which ones work for them. These strategies are difficult to master because they are internalised strategies that are not always explicit to observe and learn from others. Most of us have developed strategies over time that work for us and so students need the opportunity to do the same.
How to Create Multiple Means in Assessment
Goals of this post: Understand what construct relevance is A process to ensure integrity while keeping flexible means when planning for assessment Key ideas: Always refer back to the standard when considering if a task will Terms you might need to know for this post: Achievement standard - what is assessed in the Australian curriculum … Continue reading How to Create Multiple Means in Assessment
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