Strategy Round Up
A three word strategy for directing students thoughts and feelings about how an activity is going or how they are feeling.
What is Cares, Concerns, Compliments
This technique asserts that students are not always expected to answer a question directed at them by the teacher.
What is Giving students the option to pass
The goals of this program include establishing a foundation of learning in early years, help make a smooth transition from home, child-care, or preschool settings to school settings, and setting the child on a path of lifelong learning.
What is the Kindergarten Program
This is a detailed outline for a specific topic or area of study that lasts for a week or more.
What is a Unit Plan
When students post their answers/work around the classroom and are invited to walk around and explore other students responses.
What is a Gallery Walk
Getting your students to develop and maintain this mindset is critical for their success. Includes the thinking “I am going to keep trying” and “I have succeeded this far and will keep going”
What is a Growth Mindset
Likely the best cohort in the Masters of Teaching Program.
What is PJ171
The process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.
What is Resilience
A collaborative learning technique that encourages students to think independently, discuss their ideas with a partner, and then share their thoughts with a larger group. This strategy promotes critical thinking, active participation, and meaningful discussions.
What is Think Pair Share
This strategy represents the roadmap by which the students and teaching staff will conduct themselves in the classroom. It offers an opportunity for students and teachers to have an understanding of how to behave in the classroom. Often co-created by the class and posted somewhere for everyone to see.
What is a Classroom Alliance
This consists of multiple stations for children to rotate through which contain activities from different subjects or activities related to the same topic.
What is Learning Centers
This 6 level taxonomy acts as a guide to understanding the complexity of questions being asked and where to begin.
What is Bloom’s Taxonomy
A cooperative strategy that allows students to become experts in some aspect of a subject. Once they have spent time learning that aspect they then head back to a home group and share their learning. Acting as "pieces" of the knowledge puzzle.
What is Jigsaw
Partner Introduction
An activity where students pair up with someone they don’t know and assign themselves as Partner A or B. Partner A will start by asking questions to learn more about their partner for one minute, then Partner B will answer the questions. Partner B will then ask questions. Partners can skip any questions they’re uncomfortable with. Eventually, each pair will agree on one piece of information to share with the class. A selected pair will then present their chosen detail to the group.
This activity, also abbreviated as DISC, involves creating an activity that builds inclusion and helps those around us with self-care.
What is Daily Intentional Self-Care?
This changes the way a student learns the material rather than changing what material the students learn.
What is an Accommodation
A collaborative activity where students take turns adding to a story. This strategy encourages creativity, active listening, and teamwork while making storytelling an engaging and interactive experience.
What is Round Robin Storytelling
Name Wave
Name Wave is a fun activity to help students learn and pronounce each other's names. Standing in a circle, each student says their name with an accompanying action. The next person repeats it before adding their own, continuing around the circle. This process repeats until everyone has had a turn, making name-learning interactive and engaging.
In unit planning teachers can use a chart that assesses what a student KWLs. This is KWL.
What is Know, Want to Know, Learned
This practice creates a shared understanding and common language about how to create welcoming, caring, respectful, and safe schools by making the learning environment calm, predictable, and supportive.
What is Trauma-Informed Teaching OR Trauma-Sensitive Practice