CrT (Learning Progression) in the Classroom and AW as a framework to guide pedagogy


We are exploring ways to use the data wall to help our instructional practices in the classroom. First we mapped sentences to the CrT sections of the Learning Progressions. The little yellow ripped up numbers equate to where the sentence matches on the data wall CrT section. These sentence examples would become the Bump It Up Wall for students to compare themselves to.

The teacher then used these sentences for their Bump It Up Wall. They specifically are using the strategy: 2 stars and a stair.

This is the Bump it Up wall in its entirety.


Then there are zoomed in photos of the specific sections of the BIUW. The star indicates what's right about the sentence. The stair helps the student to identify what is the step they need to move to the next level. The next level might match part of or all of the next CrT section we want the student to achieve.





Additionally, teams have been using the waterfall to guide their English unit planning for Term 4 (kind of like a concept planner). This has allowed teams to go deeply past the 'what we are teaching' and delve into the 'how' we are going to get our students there. As a bit of a data collection for myself, I can see there are aspects of the waterfall we need to go back to. I saw this idea on Twitter and have adapted it for our context.








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