Clear Learning Objectives
Teach/Model/ Demonstarte
Guided Practice
Check for Understanding/ Formative Assessment
Famous People:
Who am I?
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True or False. Mike Schmoker would consider the following to be a clear learning objective. Make a poster/mobile/PowerPoint presentation about [fill in the blank]
False
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Why is it important to work the crowd?
It is one of the easiest ways to check for understanding. You can listen to what your students are thinking, ensure on-task behavior, scan their work to guide students, make sure students don't get left behind.
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What is guided practice?
Guided practiced is the interactive instruction between teacher and students. When the teacher introduces new learning, and engage students interactively to practice a similar task they will do later independently. Guided practice, led by the teacher, should occur any time new learning in introduced.
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DO you think you should move on even though some students are not understanding the material?
Slow interactive teaching can account for as much as 400% speed of learning differences.
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She helped formalize the basic moves of an effective lesson in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Also, she coined the phrase “anticipatory set” and believes that effective instruction includes an anticipatory set, direct instruction/modeling, guided practice, and checking for understanding.
Who is Madaline Hunter?
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What is a Clear Learning Objective?
These should be a topic, skill, or concept selected from the agreed-upon curriculum.
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True or False- It is critical that the information in the lecture should be segmented into chunks or small digestible bites.
True- Good lessons respect the limits of memory and the average attention span; importantly, learners need the chance to process new information ever few minutes.
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In what way does implementing guided practice help the teacher?
This lets the teacher recognize any need to re-teach portions of the new learning task.
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What are 3 ways you use to check for understanding?
1. Dry erase boards 2. Thumbs up/down 3. Observe/ circulate 4. Clickers http://teachlikeachampion.com/resources/sample-videos/
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These two built upon Madaline Hunter’s simple lesson structure in their recent book Checking for Understanding. They believe that students should be given increasing amounts of responsibility when working on a particular task (gradual release of responsibility model).
Who is Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey?
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True or False. Mike Schmoker would consider the following to be a clear learning objective. Write an effective introductory paragraph for an argument.
True
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How long should teachers talk/lecture before giving students an opportunity to process or practice new information?
No more than five minutes
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Choose the right answer to fill in the blank. Through the completion of the guided practice task, the teacher should ____________ release more and more responsibility to the student. a. Suddenly b. Never c. Gradually d. None of the above
C - A gradual release of information to students allows students to have a better understanding of the new task and a gradual responsibility of the thinking to the students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE_KTMRwbJs
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What is the secret to getting students to read 2 to 3 times faster as a primary grade teacher?
Plan well organized whole class lessons with continuous check for understanding.
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This respected math educator believes that the same methods described in this chapter would help our students achieve at a higher level. She, too, insists that effective lessons include frequent opportunities for “think-pair-share” .
Who is Marilyn Burns?
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Please share one way you display/show your students the learning objectives in your classroom?
Answers may vary
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What is close reading and how do you close read in your classroom?
A close reading helps students deeply understand the text by: underlining and annotating the text, discussing the text with teachers or peers, writing about and or researching information from the text, debating ideas, relating information from text to other ideas.
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True or False- “Guided practice for new learning should all occur in one day or one lesson.”
False- Guided practice should continue until it is determined that students are able to work successfully independently. This may take one day or several days. It may take a longer span of time for students to grasp a more complex skill.
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What is the heart of an effective lesson?
Checking for understanding
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This fine educator emphasizes the importance of having clear learning goals and of segmenting each chunk of instruction to optimize learning. Between the chunks, and effective teacher gathers feedback to guide the next steps in instruction.
Who is Robert Marzano?
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Why do you think establishing clear learning objectives is important for students to know?
Answers may vary
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What are some ways you can let students process new information?
Reviewing their notes and adding any new insights or connection Summarizing their learning pairing up to compare and contrast notes, perceptions, and connections
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How can guided practice be done collaboratively with peers?
During the interactive peer-collaboration phase, students can work together to practice the skill or concept being taught. Having students seated in pairs or triads is a good way to have students work together to practice a skill. During this time the teacher can walk around monitoring, reminding students of key points, and determining if the entire class needs further guided practice or just small groups.
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Has technology had a greater impact on student learning or using dry erase boards and hand signals?
The use of dry erase boards and hand signals.
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This great man as accumulated a lot of great information for teachers in his (should be) award winning text Focus. In it, he outlines exactly what a teacher needs to be doing, and he has the data to prove it.
Who is Mike Schmoker?
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