Essential Questions

"Given the amount of time we have to spend on this particular unit of study, what is the essence....what is essential for the learners in my care to explore?"

Heidi Jacobs- Hayes

1) have no one right answer 2) can be answered by all students3) enable all students to learn4) involve thinking, not just

answering5) make students investigators

Essential Questions...

Graphic Organizers

Knowledge

Concepts

Ideas Relationships

Visual Representation

English & Spanish Graphic Organizers

How C an W e Le arn M o re

W h a t W e Learned

W h a t W e W ant T O F in d O ut

W h a t W e Know

K W LH

E ffe ct

C a u se

F ish B o ne

E xam ples

A ttr ib u tes

D e fin i tio ns

F a c ts

W eb

P rop os it io n

C o nce pt(a lt ru ism )

P ro ce ss (m e ios is)

T h ing(a g eo grap h ic reg ion)

Central Idea

S p id er

D e ta ils

D e ta i ls

D e ta i ls

M ain Idea

T o w er

Types o f Graphic Organizers

Activating Prior Knowledge

Purpose: To activate students' prior knowledge through the use of engaging strategies designed to focus learning.

Activating Strategies

Carousel Brain-

storming

Two Minute Talks

Think-Pair-Share

Talking Drawings

Possible Sentences

Anticipation Reaction

Guide

The First Word

Walk Around Survey

Three Step

Interview

In the Hot Seat

Purpose:  To provide a structure for learning that actively promotes the comprehension and retention of knowledge through the use of engaging strategies that acknowledge the brain's limitations of capacity and processing

Cognitive Cognitive StrategiesStrategies

Cognitive Strategies

RAFT Dump and

Clump

CLVG 3 X 3 Vocabulary

Frayer Model 

Concept Mapping

Venn Diagram

Semantic Feature Analysis

Four Corners

Power Notes

What is Cooperative Learning?

Cooperative Learning refers to a set of instructional methods in which students work in small, mixed ability learning teams.

The students in each group are responsible not only for learning the material being taught, but also for helping their teammates learn.

Cooperative Learning

• Cooperative Learning

• The Cooperative Learning Network

Summarizing Strategies

Purpose: To promote the retention of knowledge through the use of engaging strategies designed to rehearse and practice skills for the purpose of moving knowledge into long-term memory

Summarizing StrategiesShaping

Up Review

Four-Two-One

Word Sorter

Vanity Plates

Learning Frames

Exit Slips

Final Count-down

Challenge Envelopes

Four Box Synectics

ABC Review

Questioning Strategies

What Is It? Questioning Strategies is a teaching strategy to prompt

thinking. Using questioning techniques in a variety of different contexts and according to a taxonomy of higher order thinking skills helps students develop the ability to reason.

Teachers ask questions that require students to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the information they are taught.

Studies show that students exposed to high cognitive level questions score significantly higher on

standardized achievement tests than those students who have only been exposed to low order level questions.

Classroom Questioning

In order to elicit specific responses, a teacher may consider whether he/she is asking closed or open questions.

Higher-order questions tend to be open and encourage divergent thinking.

Higher-level Questioning Starters

What do you know about..?Can you explain..?Would you expect..?What if..?Imagine yourself..(why?)

Questioning & Brain Research

Teachers' effective use of a variety of higher-order questions can overcome the brain's natural tendency to limit information. In turn, students' minds can become more open to new ideas and creative mental habits.

"Wait Time" refers to that period of teacher silence that follows the posing of a question (Wait Time I) as well as that following an initial student response (Wait Time II).

Delving Techniques

Rephrase or clarify the question. Restate. Do not repeat the same question.

Give students clue

Provide information for clues

Ask Student for more information or expand

How can you Implement Exemplary Practices?

Glossary of Instructional Strategies

Teacher Resource Center

Classroom Strategies

More sites to explore:

Mathematics and Science Education Center

reading_strategies

Teaching Methods- National Teacher Standards Site