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Focus Area B:
Implement evidence based instructional strategies including
technology best practices that promote high levels of student
engagement and achievement.
Focus Area B: Reading and Writing Across the
Curriculum
• Content Literacy
• Reading science, writing science…
• Writing-to-Learn
•First thoughts, nutshelling, questioning…
• Writing to Develop Analytical Thinking
•Arguing, locating evidence, evaluating…
• Writing to Demonstrate Knowledge
• Constructed response assessments, reports, essays….
Focus Area B: Differentiated Instruction
Multiple Students
=
Multiple opportunities to teach and learn
Focus Area B: Differentiated Instruction
What might change for some students?
• Content – what is taught
• Process – how it is taught
• Product – what the students
produce
Focus Area B: Active Student Engagement &
Technology
V = Varied instruction &
assessment
I = Immediate, specific
feedback
S = Safe (physically,
psychologically)
A = Active involvement
Focus Area B: Technology and Higher Level Thinking
Grappling’s Technology & Learning
Spectrum
Level 1 – Tech Literacy
• Learning about technology
• Projects are tech focused rather than
aligned to learning standards
Level 2 – Adapting Tasks• Used to adapt assignments & tasks
given in the past w/o technology
Level 3 – Transforming Uses•Complex learning and thinking tool
•Constructivist approaches
•Problem-based learning (PBL)
Technology Supporting
Higher Level Thinking
• E- Feedback – faster, clearer, more
effective
Immediate
standards-based feedback
• Online collective inquiry using Web
2.0 tools
Perceptual refinement
• Music and rhythm-based methods
E + M = LTM
It’s far more likely that students
will learn complex language and
sophisticated problem-solving
skills-when the fate of a (digital)
world depends on it.
James Paul Gee
Michael H. Levine
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