Older television shows placed contestants in isolation booths but new shows encourage you to phone a friend to get assistance with answers.
What is an example of encouraging partnering with others for answers?
100
A part of speech used to represent skills that students need to learn, practice and master using technology in partnering.
What are verbs?
100
Students don't take notes, they find out.
Students research and create output.
Students learn about quality and rigor from teachers.
Students refine and improve output, adding rigor, context,and quality.
What are some changes for students in partnering relationships for learning?
100
Ask students about their learning preferences through inventories and teacher assessments.
How can teachers find out students' learning styles in order to begin partnering?
100
Move from "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side"
What style of teaching needs to change for teachers to begin setting up a partnering pedagogy?
200
They operate faster than any generation in the past. They are taught more things earlier than any other group.
Teaching tools once used in grad school are now appropriate for elementary students.
"Age appropriate" is no longer a way to gauge how best to teach children.
Hint: In the air and not the tracks
How are students like rockets instead of trains?
200
A part of speech that represents the tools students use to learn, practice or do the verbs in partnering with technology.
What are nouns?
200
Students are no longer told what they need to know but are required to find it out for themselves through research, asking others, going online, etc.
In a partnering environment, what is different about the way students learn new material?
200
Problem-based learning.
Project-based learning.
Inquiry-based learning.
Constructivism.
Learning by doing.
What are some other names for partnering that teachers may have heard of and/or used?
200
Socratic Questioning
What is kind of questioning will help to encourage better questioning for discussion?
300
They should expect even more from their students instead of being "blown away" by what students have accomplished.
How should teachers react instead of being "blown away" by what their students have accomplished?
300
Thinking critically, presenting logically, communicating, making decisions, being rigorous, understanding content and context, and persuading.
What are examples of verbs used for partnering?
300
Finding their passions.
Using whatever technology is available.
Researching and finding information.
Answering questions and sharing thoughts and opinions.
Practicing skills through games.
Creating presentations in text and multimedia.
What are the student's responsibilities in partnering?
300
Creating and asking the right questions.
Giving students guidance but not lectures.
Putting material in context.
Explaining on-on-one.
Ensuring quality of curriculum and products of students.
What are the responsibilities of teachers in partnering?
300
Horseshoe, Circles, Small Groups, Teacher's desk in the middle of the room away from the board.
What are some room arrangements that will encourage partnering classrooms?
400
Giving students questions to research, explore and find answers to them, and then for the class to discuss and review.
What is the simplest definition of partnering?
400
Tools such as PowerPoint, Wikipedia, computer programs, wikis, blogs and podcasts as well as Web 2.0 tools.
What are examples of nouns used in technology and partnering?
400
Since students are extremely proficient in technology, often more than the teachers, they become technology users and experts. The teachers only suggest appropriate technologies.
What is the role of students in using technology to partner?
400
One takes students on a journey and the other is an individual helper for students. Both are roles used by teachers in partnering.
What is the difference between a guide and a coach?
400
A one to two minute presentation which encourages students to focus on being concise, to the point and persuasive.
Hint: Going up. Going Down
What are technologies that are taking the place of Email, PowerPoint, and Wikipedia?
500
Because partnering allows student learning to be real and not just relelvant, often they create real world products that can be distributed to people outside of school.
How can students change the world through partnering?
500
One of the least used spaces in the school that teachers could use to encourage movement outside the classroom and begin a partnering environment.
What is the hall?
500
Objectives vs guiding questions
Lectures vs verbs (skills)
Worksheets vs nouns (tools) Tests vs Feedback/iteration
What are the differences between the old pedagogy (telling) and new pedagogy (partnering)?