1. HAND SIGNALS Raise one finger – “I wish to speak”
Two fingers – “I wish to leave my seat”
Three fingers – “I need your help”

2. GIVE ME FIVE PLAN! Eyes on Speaker Quiet Be still
Hands free (putting things down)
Listen

3. HEADING UP YOUR PAPERS
Name Date
Title

4. DESCRIPTIVE FEEDBACK
What's working?
What's not working?
What's next?

5. IT’S ALL ABOUT
THINKING!

7. AFL STRATEGIES 1. Learning Destination / Learning Outcomes 2. Criteria
3. Descriptive feedback
What's working?
What's not working?
What's next?
4. Questioning
5. Self-assessment and peer assessment
6. Ownership

8. GRADUAL RELEASE OF RESPONSIBILITY
- model
- guided practice
- independent practice
- independent application

9. For YOU to see yourself as a
THE GOAL
For YOU to see yourself as a
SUCCESSFUL LEARNER!

10. Ask Yourself:
What am I able to do, considering the criteria for success?
What is missing? or What do I need to learn?
What is my plan for learning?
Who can help me?

11. 6 Well-Known Inclusive Teaching Practices
assessment for learning
open-ended strategies
3. gradual release of responsibility
4. cooperative learning
5. literature circles and information circles
6. inquiry

12. Key beliefs about teaching and learning:
learning is both individual and social
learning should be personally meaningful and authentic
learning builds from prior experience and background knowledge

13. Key beliefs about teaching and learning:
Students, grades 5-12:
must learn to work with a range of different teachers who may use different instructional styles and may convey different messages
must learn subject content and the subject-related thinking strategies to engage with, remember to connect to, process, and synthesize the content

14. BULLYING… IT’S NOT JUST THE MEAN THINGS
IT’S THE NICE THINGS YOU NEVER DO