Acceleration
The act of jump-starting students who are behind
Acceleration
Student's academic lives depend on their mastery of the______________.
State Standards
Designed as self-regulatory work, ________ have academic benefits that go beyond keeping students busy while teacher takes care of attendance and other manager work. (p.36)
Warm-ups
bell ringers
starters..
Students' response of , " when did we do this?" to a recently return assignment is an example of
poor use of assessment
Not formative
This type of vocabulary is important for learning new content-based concepts
academic vocabulary
Primary focus is on mastering concepts of the past
Remediation
One strategy to make learning/teaching visible in the physical classroom to______________
post a "What are we learning question" on the board -- visible to all students or adults.
Use concept maps,TIP Chart or student work to make visual student friendly easier to understand. (p. 31-33)
Research shows that students are most apt to remember what is taught at the __________ of class.
beginning of class.
" The second-highest peak[ for learning] comes during the last part of class." (36)
Focus on helping students learn rather than measure what they have already learned ( or didn't learn) is
Is an example of formative assessment
Vocabulary development strongly influences..
A student's reading, writing and conversational proficiencies (78).
Acceleration is known to strengthen and development student---
Vocabulary ( Marzano, 2004)
When creating learning goals, teachers should use explicit
verbs: to show the action of the learning goal. The nouns will refer to the content that students will learn. ( p.25)
By______ of class time the brain has reached its limit to chunk information, so the brain has more difficulty retaining content/concepts.
mid-class or mid-point
Promise for helping students reach their learning goals.
effective feedback
examples include:
Clearly articulated goals; explicitly expresses/demonstrates what students have achieved; involves all learners in the process; immediate; shows academic progress;
Just by doing this act alone is not sufficient to increasing and developing student's vocabulary
Reading
"Students typically need need multiple exposures--typically, six-- to new words to be able to grasp, retain, and use them" (79).
Some benefits of acceleration include ( name at least 2)
Self-confidence
fast application
enables students to connect with new concept
connected to core instruction
active, fast-paced; goal is student to learn on time (Rollins, p.8, 2014)
Strategy like the TIP Chart ( Terms, Information and Picture Chart) , support in better articulating the volume of content-area __________ or academic________ that students are often required to understand during new learning.
Vocabulary
Beginning class immediately with engaging materials is especially important for these types of learners.
underperforming learners who are on the verge of non-participation. (38)
Students spend the entire day deleting information they consider not important. Like our brains delete the names of a waiter from the last restaurant we attended.
Stick IT! a formative strategy where teacher does check in during the learning by having students use post it notes to share learning on the board ( anonymously) supports with
engagement and active learning; for struggling readers this activity supports; creates safe space;
This practices, traditionally used by English teachers, is also an ineffective way of developing student vocabulary
Dictionary and glossaries (81)
The biggest difference between acceleration and remediation is
Transfer
Using student work samples as a part of the standard walls in the class
"[Supports students in seeing] quality work of the given learning goal or standard strand" ( p. 33)
There are many ways to spark student interest in the beginning of a class, one way is role play. Which supports
Can take unrelated concepts that students may feel far removed from and make it about them (40).
Other strategies include:
Surveys, Questioning, Asking for prediction, brainstorming (rapid-fire thoughts about a topic)
One important aspect of formative assessment is that
they are safe and engaging tasks that allow for students to really share and show what they know.
Feedback loop
One effective way of teaching vocabulary is:
There are many ways. 1. multiple exposures; visuals; interaction with words; need to know strategies that focus on power words; developing incidental and academic words simultaneously;
in short, ask, " what words are most instrumental to student attaining content..? then go there. (84)