Companions in OCUP

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Companions in OCUP

• The Libraries

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The Libraries

• OCUP has support resources for
• teaching strategies
• special education
• assessment
• ESL

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Teaching Strategies

• The OCUP library lists 9 categories of teaching
  strategies
• Activity-Based
• Arts-Based
• Cooperative Learning
• Direct Instruction
• Independent Learning
• Inquiry Research Models
• Learning Styles
• Technology/Applications
• Thinking Skills

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The Teaching Strategies Companion

• The intention of this is.
• to help meet the needs of all students
• to provide a balance in the range of learning
  experiences
• to recognize the interrelated phases in the
  learning process

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Teaching Strategies (continued)

• to use, model, and encourage authentic questions
• to create a meaningful context to clarify or for
  further understanding
• to relate effective instruction, grouping, and
  assessment
• to offer opportunities for reflective practice

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Activity-Based Strategies

• include
• Activity centres
• Carousel
• Debate
• Docudrama
• Games
• Oral Presentations
• Simulation
• Surveys

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Arts-Based Strategies

• include
• Ceremony
• Chanting
• Choral Reading
• Collage
• Improvisation
• Mask Making
• Puppetry
• Readers Theatre
• Role Playing
• Storyboard
• Tableau

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Cooperative Learning Strategies

• include
• Brainstorming
• Discussion
• Interview
• Jigsaw
• Numbered Heads
• Round Robin
• Round Table
• Think-Pair-Share

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Direct Instruction Strategies

• include
• Advance organizers Memorization
• Book talks Read
  aloud
• Cloze
  Visualization
• Conference Seminars
• Demonstration Socratic
  Dialogue
• Flash cards
  Prompts
• Mnemonic devices Task Cards
• Read along Word
  sorts
• Storytelling
  Workbooks/sheets
• Textbooks
  Directed Reading/Thinking
• Word walls Media
  Presentation

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Independent Learning Strategies

• include
• Computer-assisted
• Homework
• Independent reading/study
• Learning contracts
• Learning logs/journals
• Portfolios
• Reading response
• Reflection
• Response journal

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Inquiry Strategies

• include
• Cognitive skills models
• Decision-making models
• Historical-geographical models
• Mathematical-problem solving model
• Problembased
• Research process
• Scientific Method
• Writing Process

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Learning Styles Strategies

• include
• Bodily-kinesthetic
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Logical/Mathematical
• Musical/Rhythmic
• Verbal/Linguistic
• Visual/Spatial

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Technology Applications

• include
• Communications applications
• Database applications
• E-mail applications
• Graphic applications
• Internet technologies
• Multimedia applications
• Spreadsheet applications
• Time-Management applications

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Thinking-Skills Strategies

• include
• Anticipation guide
• Case study
• Classifying
• Concept clarification
• Experimenting
• Graphing
• Map-making
• Manipulatives
• Media analysis
• Problem solving
• Visual/Graphic organizers

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Special Education

• The companion discusses
• Overview
• Legal responsibilities
• Programs and services
• IPRC
• IEP
• Supportive classroom
• Advisory committee
• General resources (publications, websites)

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Special Education

• The library provides information on
• Behaviour
• Hard of hearing/Deaf
• Learning Disabilities
• Autism/Pervasive Developmental Disorder
• Giftedness
• Developmental disability
• Blind/Low vision
• Deafblind
• Physical disability

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Assessment Strategies

• include
• Classroom presentations
  Portfolios
• Conferences
  Question/answer (oral)
• Essays
  Quiz/test
• Exhibitions/demonstrations Response
  journal
• Interviews
  Select a response
• Learning Logs
  Peer/self assessment
• Observation
  Performance Tasks

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Visual Organizers

• The OCUP library describes the use of
• agree/disagree chart
• grid
• fish bone
• target
• ladder
• mind maps
• sequence charts
• Venn diagrams
• webs
• diagrams