A collection of student work that shows progress over time.
What is a portfolio?
100
Describes in general terms the knowledge and skills that students are expected to demonstrate by the end of each grade.
What is an overall expectation?
100
The components of gradual release of responsibility.
What are modelled, shared, guided and independent?
200
E.C.T.
What is elementary contact teacher?
200
A type of leadership that describes those actions that a principal takes to promote growth in student learning.
What is instructional leadership?
200
A measurement tool that provides a mechanism to record student achievement that follows a clear set of guidelines, shows only levels 4 and 3, and is developed with the students.
What is an instructional rubric?
200
A unit plan that includes more than one discipline.
What is an integrated or interdisciplinary unit plan?
200
An approach to instruction that maximizes each student's growth by considering the needs of each student at his or her current stage of development and then offering that student a learning experience that responds to his or her individual needs.
What is differentiated instruction?
300
S.I.P.
What is school improvement plan?
300
An electronic document principals, VP's, school office professionals and admin centre personnel access for up-to-date information.
What is the BWDSB Administrator's Handbook?
300
Teacher and student meet to discuss the student's progress and next steps.
What is a conference?
300
The process of thinking about one's thinking.
What is metacognition?
300
The components of a three part lesson.
What are minds on, action and consolidation?
400
I.P.R.C.
What is Identification Placement and Review Committee?
400
Setting goals, aligning resources with priorities, promoting collaborative learning cultures, using data, engaging in courageous conversations.
What are the Core Leadership Capacities?
400
An open-ended, relevant task that allows for deeper level thinking, multiple entry points, asks questions, includes all four categories of learning and allows students to apply their learning in a new situation.
What is a rich assessment task?
400
These go beyond discrete facts or skills to focus on larger concepts, principles, or processes.
What are big ideas?
400
Drawing meaning from or reaching a conclusion using reasoning and evidence from a text, based on what the author states and implies in text and what the reader brings to the text from his or her prior knowledge and experience.
What is inferring?
500
P.R.I.M.E.
What is professional resource and instruction for mathematics educators?
500
Provides the underpinnings for the principal/vice-principal performance appraisal process.
What is the Ontario Leadership Framework?
500
The teacher and student work together to assess the student's knowledge, what she or he needs to learn to improve and extend this knowledge, and how the student can best get to that point.
What is assessment as learning?
500
Brief descriptions of four different degrees of student achievement of the provincial curriculum expectations for any given grade.
What are the achievement levels?
500
The process of mentally manipulating and transforming information and ideas in order to solve problems, acquire understanding, and discover new meaning.