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Use the following tools and strategies when planning for student learning.
Harvard Project Zero - Visible Thinking Routines: https://pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines
The Thinking Routines toolbox is an extensive collection of strategies to support students in drawing out and expressing deeper thinking. Using routines in the classroom establishes expectations, builds confidence through experience, and reduces cognitive load as students become more familiar with the routine. There are strategies to support group, pair and individual learning. This is a must have collection for any teacher, as the strategies are transferrable to any year level and subject.
Bloom's Taxonomy: Bloom's Taxonomy for Learning: The Cognitive Domain
Bloom's taxonomy is useful to planning learning intentions, assessment tasks and learning activities, to ensure that learning is pitched appropriately to support and challenge students. Diagrams like this one (click here) are useful to help with brainstorming ideas for unit and lesson plans.
If you're still unsure what Bloom's Taxonomy looks like in practice, watch this example from Pirates of the Caribbean!
