Strategy Focus questions When have I experienced this in the past? How have I used this strategy as a teacher?

In year 10 class about drugs, where they listed

Are higher-order thinking and
critical analysis occurring?
the drugs and what group they are in. A higher-
order of thinking was when they had to
elaborate on the affects it does and how it
affects the human body short and long term.
Talking to the students about a certain topic then
getting them to do interactive activities
associated with the topic just learnt so they
understand, apply and analysis the topic

Deep
Using activities and getting them to know the
knowledg Does the lesson sequence cover A high school teacher covered a large number content inside the classroom then get the
e and operational fields in any depth, of patchy ideas of information that were students outside of the classroom to explain and
higher unconnected to other knowledge apply the deep knowledge they had just used in
detail or level of specificity?
class by doing a task outside relating to the
order
content
thinking

Do the work and response of the
students provide evidence of
depth of understanding of
concepts or ideas?
A teacher was talking about nutrition and the
food groups, but to gain understanding she got
the students to write down what they
understood was healthy to eat for breakfast,
lunch and dinner.
By getting the students to write down what they
thought was healthy for each meal. It was easy
to track their understanding and their
application to now the real world

Does classroom talk break out of
Collaborat
the initiation/response/evaluation
ive and
pattern and lead to sustained
social
dialogue between students, and
learning
between teachers and students?
I was volunteering at a school and I helped run
a year 7 PE class. By interacting with the
students during an AFL skill the students were
able to tell me what they knew about AFL and
the rules.
By using this strategy it allows the opportunity
for the students to have input into the lesson
and allow for a lot more student-teacher
interaction, where it gets the students involved
and engaged in the activity

Knowledg In this course, for our first blog we were asked I would use this strategy due to the fact it gets
to rate ourselves on a scale of 0 (unprepared) to the students thinking about their beliefs which
e as Are students critiquing and
10 (prepared) of use of ICTs in the classroom. then opens up discussion about multiple
complex second-guessing texts, ideas and This allowed us to make a public statement statements relative to the content but also bring
and linked knowledge? about how we feel about ICTs and then were personal values which keeps the students
to asked to elaborate on our rating engaged.
interests
and Does the lesson sequence range In HPE, especially biomechanics the students Having incorporating different disciplines into
experienc are able to incorporate what they have learnt the content it enables the students to
across diverse fields, disciplines
through mathematics to the content of understand and apply current knowledge from

and paradigms? biomechanics and vice versa.
In a year 7 nutrition class, my mentor teacher
Is there an attempt to connect wrote Health in the middle of the board. From
e
with students background this the students and teacher brainstormed
knowledge? what the students thought health was, which
also came from personal experiences
In HPE, having the students learn about healthy
Do the lesson sequence and the lifestyles and fitness it gives the students the
knowledge for the real-world. Explaining
assigned work have any
statistics from the ABS about increasing obesity
resemblance or connection to real- rates in Australia helps the students put into
Problems
life contexts? perspective the importance of a balanced
that are lifestyle.
real and
relevant
In year 7 primary, there were groups made from
to results of tests putting students in different
students Is there a focus on identifying and academic capabilities. I for one was put in the
solving intellectual and/or real- lowest due to my slow learning abilities. I knew I
was in the lowest group which made me feel
world problems?
excluded and dumb. From this experience I
have always felt that way
In high school at the start of a term we were
asked by our biology teacher if we wanted to do
an oral presentation, power point or an essay
Do students have any say in the
Student for our assessment. From this, we ended up
pace, direction or outcomes of the doing an essay due to majority student votes. I
direction
lesson sequence? found this made use more engage with the
topic because we had the choice of assessment
type
Explicit Are the criteria for judging student In all classes there is a goal/statement made
that the students have to try and achieve, for
quality performance made explicit?
instance, tasks or assessments
performan
other subjects to the content. This then helps
with remembering, due to repetition in other
subjects
By brainstorming with the class it allows the
teacher to gain background knowledge of the
students. Every time a brainstorming activity is
done it allows the teacher to learn more about
their students
I believe a strategy to connect with the real-life
contexts for HPE or any other subject is to tell
them about statistics because it helps the
students become aware that these are real-life
numbers not made up numbers. Hoping this will
engage the students to believe that the topic is
important for future life.
From past experience, I wouldnt segregate the
students into different capabilities as this makes
the lower students excluded. The teachers
should have combined all the learning abilities
into all different groups to allow students to help
other students
I find this strategy very effective because it
allows the students to have input on their
assessments that they are completing. By doing
this it keeps them engaged in the topic and also
helps them learn.
This strategy could help with giving the students
specific direction of what they need to achieve
ce criteria

In my English extension class, grade 10, we had I would use this strategy to not only engage the
Are diverse cultural knowledges to read To Kill A Mockingbird. This was to one particular culture but all cultures. It also
Cultural understand the cultural differences back then to
brought into play? helps the students understand different cultures
knowledg now and how things have changed. and to respect them
es

Active In junior science class, there was discussion This helps engage the students because it gets
Are attempts made to foster active about the environment and how we can help it them thinking about how they can help the
citizenship
citizenship? become better. We thought of ways in everyday environment at home, at school or in the
life we could help the environment community