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Instructional Model.

Our Instructional Model

The CLC Instructional Model offers teachers an evidence based, consistent and structured approach to lesson planning and delivery.

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Retrieve

Establishing prior knowledge

How teachers and students interact at this step:cross-icon
  • The teacher will be questioning, quizzing, discussing, prompting and/or brainstorming.
  • Students will be demonstrating, recalling, retrieving, explaining their understanding and/or sharing ideas.
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Activate

Stimulating interest and curiosity.

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  • Teachers will be providing stimulus materials, bringing in samples, asking provocative questions, sharing ideas, running a demonstration and/or making connections.
  • Students will be sharing experiences, asking questions, responding, warming up and/or making connections.
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Target

Articulating the purpose and intended outcomes of the lesson.

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  • Teachers will be articulating clear Learning Intentions, differentiating success criteria and guiding students in setting goals.
  • Students will be setting personal learning goals, co-constructing success criteria and rewording the purpose of the lesson.
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Teach

Explicit teaching with evidence based pedagogical practices.

How teachers and students interact at this step:cross-icon
  • Teachers will be using high impact teaching strategies, providing scaffolds, modelling key skills, behaviours and language, presenting information in multiple formats for different learning needs, providing worked examples summarising notes and key terms, demonstrating and/or reteaching.
  • Students will be listening, clarifying, notetaking, observing and/or practising worked examples.
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Apply

Students practicing, demonstrating and applying their learning.

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  • Teachers will be guiding, supporting, asking questions, challenging student thinking, checking for understanding/formative assessment, reteaching, grouping students, observing, responding, engaging with students and/or providing feedback.
  • Students will be collaborating, comparing and contrasting, actively applying knowlede and skills, working independently, asking questions, responding to feedback, checking discussing, analysing, peer teaching, creating, synthesising, explaining, evaluating, judging, developing informed opinions and/or justifying.
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Check

Providing opportunities for feedback, review and reflection.

How teachers and students interact at this step:cross-icon
  • Teachers will be revising learning intentions and success criteria, completing formative assessment (eg. exit tickets and graphic organisers), questioning, setting meaningful homework, linking class to future learning, celebrating success and providing positive feedback and/or reflecting.
  • Students will be revisiting learning goals and planning future steps, summarising learning, providing feedback about the lesson, reflecting, sharing, communicating, celebrating and/or acknowledging each other's contributions.