Finding a mentor, this is SO IMPORTANT. Go to the HTAV workshops and make use of their Mentor Program

Ways to begin
Using Popplet for visual glossaries
Using Facebook
Throw around
Silent conversations

Reading and absorbing
VIP reading strategy

Making research fun
Using Pinterest, Edmodo and Scootle

Analyzing Images
Using Thing Link

How to make it stick
Pinterest and Popplet Timelines
25 words

HTAV
Has a program in place for graduate teachers

Workshops
HTAV offers many, if you didn't get what you hoped for (let's face it we are all different, and teach in many ways) then grab the details of those that you gravitated to in your workshop
Also, there are many possibilities in Unit 4, not all workshops favour your strengths

Favours
I was lucky, I knew a guy .......

The next few slides are teaching ideas to help get your units started.

They are all ways to include and improve literacy and thinking skills in the History classroom.

Silent conversations
Visual glossaries
Throw Arounds
Word Clouds

For other ideas on Thinking skills, please visit
www.visiblethinkingpz.org

I use Facebook and Pinterest in my classroom. Each are used for different purposes, but the end goal, which is great results, can be achieved by a combination of both.

Facebook is the glue that binds my class together. I have used it with both my VCE classes and believe it has helped create a better, safer and more collaborative learning environment.

It allows me to share content that I can't cover in class, and content that absent kids have missed.

Students prefer it if I communicate via FB

Upside and downside, is that I am 'ON' 24/7. I don't mind this, intact I enjoy knowing that they are working out of class time.

I AM NOT FRIENDS with my students. I AM in CONTROL of the content posted on the 'wall'

Students have to sign contracts before acceptance, and parents MUST be notified of its use in the classroom.

Do you want your students to be active thinkers as they read?
Do you want students to react to what they are reading?
Would you like to see student's thinking as they read?
Would you like to hear silence as they read important information?

Then this coding the text reading strategy is for you!

Tag your image to annotate sections. You can add text and add links to websites or You Tube clips

For more visible thinking routine ideas visit the Project Zero website.

http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRout...

This is CSI example completed after viewing Peter Weir's film Gallipoli.

The worksheet template is one I have created to help my EAL students complete the task in order of the steps required.

A CSI should take time, don't rush it. Make sure you have coloured markers on hand

Encourage students to think critically about their CSI, especially the colour. Remind them that all responses are correct, so long as they justify their chosen symbols.