COURSE BASICS
This course focuses on translating this into meaningful classroom practice.
What is curriculum (or curricular content)?
This Ontario document guides assessment, evaluation, and reporting.
What is Growing Success?
This approach emphasizes learning through questioning, curiosity, and student-driven exploration.
What is inquiry-based learning?
This type of participation includes listening, collaborating, and engaging—not just speaking.
What is professional participation?
This course is directly connected to this real-world teaching experience.
What is Practicum?
This document focuses on supporting all learners through effective instruction and assessment.
What is Learning for All?
This type of learning connects content to real-world experiences and hands-on engagement.
What is experiential learning?
This instructional strategy adjusts teaching to meet diverse learner needs.
What is differentiated instruction?
This is the minimum grade required to pass the course.
What is a C+?
This Capacity Building Series document focuses on equity and inclusivity in teaching.
What is Culturally Responsive Pedagogy or CRRP?
This teaching approach integrates multiple subject areas into one learning experience.
What is interdisciplinary learning?
This 'tool' helps teachers align learning goals, instruction, and assessment.
What is lesson planning (or a lesson plan)?
This percentage of the course grade is based on engagement and participation.
What is 20%?
This part of the curriculum document includes categories like Knowledge, Thinking, Communication, and Application.
What is the Achievement Chart?
This concept ensures teaching reflects students’ identities, cultures, and lived experiences.
What is culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP)?
This classroom focus emphasizes creating inclusive and productive learning environments.
What is classroom management?
This process involves planning, implementing, and assessing learning based on Ontario curriculum expectations.
What is instructional design (or instructional planning)?
These three types of assessment are central to Ontario policy.
What are assessment FOR, AS, and OF learning?
This type of teacher thinking involves making informed instructional decisions in complex situations.
What is professional judgment?
This concept refers to providing feedback that helps students understand next steps in their learning.
What is descriptive feedback?