TEACHING & LEARNING
Effective Teaching & Learning at Charlton
The College uses Marzano’s “The Art & Science of Teaching” as its Pedagogical framework for professional development in effective instruction and in Performance and Development processes.
The 5 key elements of the Art & Science of Teaching (ASOT) drawn at Charlton are;
1. Expectations and implementing rules and procedures
- Establishing Classroom Routines
- Implementing Rules and Procedures
- Organizing Physical Layout of the Classroom for Learning
- Demonstrating “Withitness”
- Acknowledging Adherence to Rules and Procedures
- Acknowledging non-adherence to Rules and Procedures and applying Consequences
2. Providing and communicating clear learning goals
- Generating and communicating clear learning goals
3. Using feedback and assessments
- Types of feedback
- Strategies for feedback
- Tracking Student Progress
- Celebrating Student Success
4. Maximising student interaction with new content
- Identifying and flagging Critical Information
- Organising Students to Interact with New Knowledge
- Previewing New Content
- Chunking Content into “Digestible Bites”
- Developing quality and engaging Critical Input Experiences
- Organising Students to Interact
- Strategies for active processing of new Content
- Elaborating on New Content
- Recording and Representing Content
- Reflecting on Learning
- Using Homework
5. Application of knowledge and high-order thinking
- Examining Similarities and Differences
- Examining Errors in Reasoning
- Organizing Students for Cognitively Complex Tasks
- Engaging Students in Cognitively Complex Tasks Involving Hypothesis Generating and Testing
- Providing Resources and Guidance
ASOT is also the basis of staff Performance and Development Framework. All teachers are involved in formal peer observations and feedback sessions and teachers of Years 5-12 classes implement on-line Surveys in which students provide feedback on their perceptions of their class.
