Practicum & the Ontario College of Teachers
Care, Trust, Respect and Integrity
What are the OCT's Ethical Standards?
A flexible approach to teaching that varies content, process, and product to reach all learners.
What is differentiated instruction (DI)?
To improve student learning and to inform instructional decisions.
What is the overall purpose of assessment?
Instructional, Environmental and Assessment
What are accommodations?
A resource that includes the Conditions "Safety" and "Belonging".
What is The Third Path?
Minds On (Engage, Activate), Action (Introduce/Extend/ Reinforce) and Consolidation (Demonstrate/Reflect)
What is the Instructional Sequence? What is the Three Part Lesson?
Triangulation of data includes...
What are observations, conversations and products?
When a student is working on Grade 2 expectations in Math in Grade 5.
What is a modification?
Any time you miss any part of a day of practicum you need to fill this out.
What is the Practicum Absence Reporting Form?
Knowledge & Understanding; Thinking; Communication; and Application
What are the Achievement Chart Categories?
Examples include checklists, rating scales, check brics and rubrics
What are assessment tools?
Reducing the number of curriculum expectations a student would have to meet.
What is a modification?
Professional Boundaries; Use of Electronic Communication and Social Media; Anti-Black Racism
What are some of the OCT's Professional Advisories?
This describes in student-friendly language what successful attainment of the Learning Goals looks like.
What are Success Criteria?
Examples include rich performance tasks, short & extended responses, portfolios, models, experiments, essays
What are summative assessments?
Giving a student an oral test instead of a written test.
What is an accommodation?
According to the Education Act teachers need to have "teaching plans and outlines as required by the principal". This is why you use this.
What is a Daybook?
Responsibility; Organization; Independent Work; Collaboration; Initiative; Self-Regulation
What are the Learning Skills and Work Habits?
Students personally monitor what they are learning by using the success criteria, and feedback from their teacher & peers.
What is assessment as learning?
Based on an architectural premise that aims to accommodate ALL learners.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?