Acronyms
OCT
What is the Ontario College of Teachers
Pose a prompt, have students silently reflect, then share with a partner, then the class
What is Think-Pair-Share?
Research shows this greatly influences student learning
What is formative assessment?
set of statements that define expectations to be a teacher in Ontario
What are the OCT Standards of Practice?
What is "inclusive education"?
OSSTF
What is the Ontario Secondary School Federation?
Pose a prompt, then have students move to demonstrate if they strongly agree, agree, etc
What is Four Corners?
Process of students learning about their own learning - form of meta-cognition
What is "assessment as learning"?
Expectation that directs teachers to contact CAS if child is at risk of being harmed or harming themselves
What is "duty to report"?
What is "differentiated instruction"?
IEP
What is "Individual Education Plan"?
What is Big Paper?
Judgement of evidence of student learning in light of criteria.
What is "assessment of learning?"
Set of recommendations on how to operate safely in on-line environments
What is the "OCT Social-Media Advisory"?
Includes promotion of global citizenship, communication, critical thinking, etc
What are "global competencies"?
OSSD
What is the Ontario Secondary School Diploma?
A good strategy for arranging many factors, from greatest to least importance.
Diamond Ranking
underlying principle that guides how teachers come to generate grades
What is "professional judgement"?
Often distinguished from equality - highlights systemic advantage
What is "equity"?
PISA
What is the Programme for International Student Assessment?
each student takes turn sharing ideas, building on ideas, one after the other
What is Rally Robin?
coaching, descriptive feedback & quizzes - all can be examples of _______
What is formative assessment?
Latin - Premise which bestows responsibility of teachers to act as parents
What is "in loco parentis"?
Start with the learning goals, next consider how you'll collect evidence of learning, then plan specific teaching activities
What is "design down" or "backwards planning"?