• POP: Challenging and Supporting Students

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Are we challenging and supporting the range of learners in our school: Are we engaging students in the key skills, understandings and processes of the learning area? How do we know where our learners are at? Are we differentiating the learning to cater for our students' needs and interests? Does our feedback show where to next in the learning?  Burwood PS Term 3, 2017 

Here are two core readings that tell us what we need to keep in mind to challenge and support all our students

Reading #1 Chapter 4, "Looking for a Worthwhile Lesson" from Formative Classroom Walkthroughs, Connie M Moss & Susan M Brookhart. Click here to download

Reading #2 Chapter 1, "Leading Differentiation in Order to Lead" from Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia B. Imbeau

FEEDBACK:
This reading has two short articles, "Preventing Feedback Fizzle" by Susan Brookhart and "How am I Going?" by Jan Chappuis.  Click here to download

PEER FEEDBACK:
Where to next isn't just a responsibility for teachers, we need to activate both students and their peers in the process.  Here is chapter 6 from "Embedded Formative Assessment. Click here to download.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: point to important, transferrable ideas, are open-ended and intellectually engaging.  Click here to download this thought-provoking reading.

The 5-minute Marking Plan is a great scaffold to help teachers plan for feedback.  Click here to download the page and click here for instructions on how to use it.

EFFECTIVE QUESTIONS  produce thinking.  A fabulous poster developed by Rhonda Bondie. Click here to download

And a great article by Ron Ritchhart that explains the kinds of questions that different kinds of deep thinking: Promoting inquiry, constructing understanding and facilitating and clarifying thinking.  Click here to download