Hunter River High School
Pedagogy Power! Term 3 Week 1
Literacy Focus of the Week
This week we have turned full circle with our writing skills we are looking to consolidate our knowledge of simple sentences!
A new Super Six reading strategy starts this week - Monitoring
Monitoring is being aware of your own thinking when you read - its helpful for teachers to verbalise the internal strategies we use when reading for students.
Conjunctions (or connectives) join words or parts of sentences. They link one idea with another to provide a logical flow to a sentence. For example, Eliza and Alice ran across the road.
Numeracy
This week remember...
Tech Top Tip
Have you tried Klikaklu?
This is a great scavenger hunt that you can build and create for students using the class set of i-pads.
Klikaklu: a Brief Introduction
Quality Teaching - Deep Knowledge
Is the knowledge being addressed focused on a small number of key concepts and ideas within topics, subjects or KLAs, and on the relationships between and among concepts?
Stuck?
Why not try:
- Think/pair/share
- Stay-n-stray
- Hot Potato
- KWL
- edmodo
- glogster
- voicethread
Edmodo
An interactive tool that can be used for a range of activities - think posting lessons and resources, quizzes and grade management.
Glogster edu
An interactive poster creation tool which allows students to embed a range of sources to consolidate their knowledge about a topic.
VoiceThread
Allows students to collaboratively communicate about text and images.
GATS Gab
Maker Model - modifications to the content, process and product areas of curriculum.
Content Modifications:
Abstraction - the focus of discussions, presentations and reading materials should be on abstract concepts, themes and theories - going beyond the facts!
YCDI
This week our focus is on Confidence - Lesson 3
TEDxRyersonU - Dr. Ivan Joseph - The Skill of Self Confidence
Superstars of the Week!
Deb
Thanks for all your work with National Partnerships!
Glenn
Shout out from G2 - Glenn has provided a range of texts that can be used with the QuickSmart program.
Mel H
For just being awesome!!