High-yield Strategies to Improve Student Learning
May 2, 2008: Today's classrooms are filled with learners whose strengths are as diverse as their needs. In order to teach all students effectively to build on strengths while zeroing in on areas that need more attention teachers must have an extensive repertoire of strategies. Based on assessment data, research, experience and professional observations, The Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat has selected a sampling of high-yield strategies to illustrate effective classroom practices.

Supporting Your Child's Learning
December 17, 2008:The Supporting Your Child's Learning podcast series demonstrates meaningful adult interactions with children of all ages outside of the school. Scenarios will focus on how to stimulate thoughtful conversations, problem solving, and deep thinking while engaging in everyday activities in the home and community. Each podcast will feature how to create authentic, playful learning opportunities that stimulate literacy and numeracy development, creativity, curiosity, and a genuine enthusiasm for learning.

Teacher Moderation: Collaborative Assessment of Student Work
September 10, 2007: Assessment has an impact on student learning. It influences the teacher's instructional decisions and informs the student as to his or her strengths, needs, and next steps. Assessment is a complex process and it is challenging to ensure that assessment is fair, valid and consistent for all students. One way to work toward consistently effective assessment practices is through a process called teacher moderation.

During this webcast, you will explore the teacher moderation process through the experiences of three Junior-division teachers as they come together to compare, confirm, and adjust judgments about their students' work. You will see how they collaborate to establish a shared understanding of the levels of achievement and of what learning or gaps in learning are revealed in each student's work. After analyzing the students' work samples, conferring with each other, and referring to anchors, rubrics, curriculum documents, and support materials, the teachers collaboratively determine where students should be and then "design down" to plan the next steps required to move the students forward in their learning.

Teaching-Learning Critical Pathways
September 8, 2008: The Teaching Learning Critical Pathway is a collaborative model based on moderation of student work. It empowers teachers to provide personalized and precise instruction that meets the needs of every student in a timely and doable manner.

December 17, 2008
Supporting Your Child's Learning
The Supporting Your Child's Learning podcast series demonstrates meaningful adult interactions with children of all ages outside of the school. Scenarios will focus on how to stimulate thoughtful conversations, problem solving, and deep thinking while engaging in everyday activities in the home and community. Each podcast will feature how to create authentic, playful learning opportunities that stimulate literacy and numeracy development, creativity, curiosity, and a genuine enthusiasm for learning.

September 8, 2008
Teaching-Learning Critical Pathways
The Teaching Learning Critical Pathway is a collaborative model based on moderation of student work. It empowers teachers to provide personalized and precise instruction that meets the needs of every student in a timely and doable manner.

May 2, 2008
High-yield Strategies to Improve Student Learning
Today's classrooms are filled with learners whose strengths are as diverse as their needs. In order to teach all students effectively to build on strengths while zeroing in on areas that need more attention teachers must have an extensive repertoire of strategies. Based on assessment data, research, experience and professional observations, The Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat has selected a sampling of high-yield strategies to illustrate effective classroom practices.

September 10, 2007
Teacher Moderation: Collaborative Assessment of Student Work
Assessment has an impact on student learning. It influences the teacher's instructional decisions and informs the student as to his or her strengths, needs, and next steps. Assessment is a complex process and it is challenging to ensure that assessment is fair, valid and consistent for all students. One way to work toward consistently effective assessment practices is through a process called teacher moderation.

During this webcast, you will explore the teacher moderation process through the experiences of three Junior-division teachers as they come together to compare, confirm, and adjust judgments about their students' work. You will see how they collaborate to establish a shared understanding of the levels of achievement and of what learning or gaps in learning are revealed in each student's work. After analyzing the students' work samples, conferring with each other, and referring to anchors, rubrics, curriculum documents, and support materials, the teachers collaboratively determine where students should be and then "design down" to plan the next steps required to move the students forward in their learning.