Acronyms
Teaching Strategies
A&E
Law & Policy
Teaching Frameworks
100

OCT

What is the Ontario College of Teachers

100

Pose a prompt, have students silently reflect, then share with a partner, then the class

What is Think-Pair-Share?

100

Research shows this greatly influences student learning

What is formative assessment?

100

set of statements that define expectations to be a teacher in Ontario

What are the OCT Standards of Practice?

100
aim that teachers can include all learners in their classrooms

What is "inclusive education"?

200

OSSTF

What is the Ontario Secondary School Federation?

200

Pose a prompt, then have students move to demonstrate if they strongly agree, agree, etc

What is Four Corners?

200

Process of students learning about their own learning - form of meta-cognition

What is "assessment as learning"?

200

Expectation that directs teachers to contact CAS if child is at risk of being harmed or harming themselves

What is "duty to report"?

200
Design strategy that considers various products, content, processes and classroom environments

What is "differentiated instruction"?

300

IEP

What is "Individual Education Plan"?

300
Working silently in small groups, student write responses to common text, building ideas.

What is Big Paper?

300

Judgement of evidence of student learning in light of criteria.

What is "assessment of learning?"

300

Set of recommendations on how to operate safely in on-line environments

What is the "OCT Social-Media Advisory"?

300

Includes promotion of global citizenship, communication, critical thinking, etc

What are "global competencies"?

400

OSSD

What is the Ontario Secondary School Diploma?

400

A good strategy for arranging many factors, from greatest to least importance.

Diamond Ranking

400

underlying principle that guides how teachers come to generate grades

What is "professional judgement"?

400
Outlines conduct unbecoming a member
What is "Regulation 437/97" or "OCT Professional Misconduct Guidelines"?
400

Often distinguished from equality - highlights systemic advantage

What is "equity"?

500

PISA

What is the Programme for International Student Assessment?

500

each student takes turn sharing ideas, building on ideas, one after the other

What is Rally Robin?

500

coaching, descriptive feedback & quizzes - all can be examples of _______

What is formative assessment?

500

Latin - Premise which bestows responsibility of teachers to act as parents

What is "in loco parentis"?

500

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"?