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Course Description

This course helps primary teachers move beyond task completion and focus on what students actually understand. Teachers will explore simple strategies to reveal student thinking, check understanding during learning, extend responses through purposeful prompts, and make more informed decisions about when students are ready to move forward.



Audience

Primary Teachers


Teaching Standards

3.3.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Use teaching strategies:  Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem-solving, and critical and creative thinking

5.1.2 Proficient Level - Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning - Assess student learning:  Develop, select and use informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies to assess student learning




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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome

    • Acknowledgement of Country

    • Learning Objectives

    • Teaching Standards

  • 2

    Module 1 – When “Done” Doesn’t Mean Understood

    • Introduction

    • The Illusion of Understanding in Primary Classrooms

    • Why This Happens in Primary Settings – Part 1

    • Why This Happens in Primary Settings – Part 2

    • The Core Problem

    • Quick Knowledge Check

    • Case Study: Surface Success, Hidden Gaps

    • Resource: Completion vs Understanding Diagnostic Tool

    • Reflection Question

    • Application Activity
  • 3

    Module 2 – What Understanding Actually Looks Like

    • Introduction

    • Understanding as Quality of Thinking

    • Four Observable Indicators of Understanding – Part 1

    • Four Observable Indicators of Understanding – Part 2

    • What Understanding Is Not

    • Case Study: From Answer to Explanation

    • Resource: What Does Understanding Look Like? – Teacher Guide

    • Reflection Question

    • Application Activity

  • 4

    Module 3 – Checking Understanding in Real Time

    • Introduction

    • Real-Time Checking Is About Instructional Responsiveness

    • What Makes a Check Useful?

    • Practical Strategies

    • Case Study: Checking Understanding in History

    • Resource: Quick Check Strategies Sheet

    • Scenario Activity

    • Application Activity

  • 5

    Module 4 – Extending Thinking Without Over-Teaching

    • Introduction

    • Why Extending Matters

    • The Role of Prompting

    • High-Leverage Extension Prompts

    • Case Study: Year 3 Science – States of Matter

    • Resource: Reusable Extension Questions – Prompt Bank

    • Reflection Question

    • Application Activity

  • 6

    Module 5 – Securing Understanding Before the Lesson Ends

    • Introduction

    • The Risk of Moving On Too Soon

    • A Shift in Focus

    • Making the Final Check Count

    • Case Study: Deciding Whether to Move On

    • Resource: “Am I Ready to Move On?” Decision Guide

    • Reflection Questions

    • Application Activity

    • Wrap Up

    • Reference List
  • 7

    Course Feedback

    • Course Feedback

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