A guide to the The Professional Learning Framework at Officer Secondary College
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Chalk and Dust - Podcast and videos of exemplary practice
Chalk Dust Episode 1: From CFU to CFQ
By exploring checking for understanding (CfU) and checking for quality (CfQ), the hosts unpack effective teaching practices, focusing on explicit instruction, CFU techniques, and the importance of peer feedback.
Chalk Dust Episode 8: Building trust with high expectations
Focusing on practices like narrating the lap, culture of error, and show-calling student work
Chalk Dust Episode 3: Running the secondary room
Focusing on the importance of checks for listening (CFLs), checks for understanding (CFUs), and checks for thinking (CFTs) and how they enhance lesson quality in a Hums class.
Steplab videos - Great teaching unpacked...see more here
Teach like a champion - OSC aligned strategies...read more here
Turn and Talk is a popular technique in Teach Like a Champion - click here to see exemplary use of this strategy.
Show Call - a TLAC technique which involves selecting an example of student work and projecting it to the class while discussion and analyzing. When students can see it they are best prepared to study it.
Building student reading fluency through FASE reading. Studies find that about half of demonstrated reading comprehension is predicted by reading fluency. Read how to use it effectively here!
Walkthrus - 5 step guides to teaching strategies
The Power of The Pause: A high frequency Walkthrus technique to gain student attention is Signal, Pause, Insist.
The Power of The Pause: A high frequency Walkthrus technique to gain student attention is Signal, Pause, Insist.
VTLM 2.0 and other resources
PCMS Strategy 6: Opportunities to respond
Child Safe Standards
Popular teaching and Learning strategies at OSC...
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