Inviting the Struggle
The more a student struggles, and even fails, while trying to learn new information, the more likely the student is able to recall and apply the information later.
What is productive failure?
Ability to perform acts with a level of fluency, speed, and accuracy.
Underlying any complex action is a host of sub skills that make it possible to perform at high levels.
(p. 97-98)
What is the mark of any expert?
Endurance. In it for the long haul. Staying power. Having the energy needed and the tenacity required to get the job done. (P. 103)
What is stamina?
Involves goal setting, making a plan, and making adjustments based on progress.
(p. 112)
What is Strategic Thinking?
"Complex readings stretch the critical thinking skills of students. In other words, they cause students to appropriately ______." (p.121)
What is struggle?
The percentage of students that say they like challenging assignments.
What is 43%?
Spaced practice, repeated reading, and mnemonics are ways to teach young children discrete skills or older students how to activate factual, conceptual, or procedural knowledge with little hesitation.
(p. 98)
What are three tools that can build fluency?
- Help learners understand and develop a growth mindset.
- Push, but know when to stop.
- Model perseverance.
- Teach positive self talk.
- Remind them about their brains.
(P. 104)
What are things that teachers can do to help students develop stamina?
_____________ should be understood as different from skills, although both terms are often used interchangeably.
(p.112)
What are Strategies?
______ is effective when teachers take the time to teach it constructively.
What is peer critique?
What is difficulty?
Far more effective.
Rehearsals are distributed regularly over a longer time period i.e. 3x a week for 10 minutes as opposed to 1x a week for 30 minutes
Has an effect size of 0.71
(p. 98-99)
What are spaced practices?
Key factors that make independent stamina-focused tasks effective. (p. 110)
What are choice, relevance, and differentiation?
The ability to notice ones own thinking expands the positive effects established through strategic instruction.
(p.115)
What is metacognitive awareness?
An activity that allows students to dig deeper and face challenges, while fostering transfer and collaboration skills.
What is project-based learning?
The type of thinking, the number of steps, or the necessary background knowledge required of the task.
What is complexity?
It deepens comprehension and contributes to increased fluent reading (accuracy and rate) and oral reading fluency.
(p. 99-100)
What are the benefits of repeated reading?
A student assignment that is not considered complex, however offers extensive practice of stamina skills to develop informative writing, public speaking, and independent research. (P. 107-109)
What a research project?
A small group, text-based discussion protocol promoting comprehension through attention to collaborative problem solving.
(p. 113)
What is Reciprocal Teaching?
An activity that allows students to dig deeper and face challenges, while fostering transfer and collaboration skills.
What is project-based learning?
The part of the quadrant that requires difficult and complex tasks for learners.
What is struggle?
Musical (reciting the alphabet & names of 50 states)
Expression (recalling that “when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking”)
Visual model (organizing information using a familiar shape representation)
(p. 101)
What are three forms of mnemonics?
Eight key factors for implementing an effective and efficient wide reading effort _____. (P. 106)
What is access, appeal, conducive environment, encouragement, staff training, non accountability, follow-up activities, and distributed time to read?
Preparation for work, seeking help when needed, and persistence in the face of difficulty.
(p.116)
What are self-regulatory academic behaviors?
Text-dependent questioning follows these four phases:
What are literal level, structural elements, application of critical thinking skills, and task related?
Also acceptable for #3 and #4: what the text means, and what does the text inspire you to do?