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Workshop Goals!O Create open-ended questions using
Bloom’s Taxonomy.
O Increase students’ comprehension skills.
O Engagement strategy OThe Gallery Walk
O WikiSpace
What are our students reading?
What are we asking them to read?
What can we do?
O Supplement materials to increase engagement !!
O Exploring issues in the news will strengthen reading and critical thinking skills.
Newspapers or online articles!
O Review the newspapers or use online sources and choose articles that would appeal to your students!
O Local newspaper (Wayne Today)O NJ.com
My Examples
Wayne Football Players “Doblin: Students suit up while
reason gets benched.”
“Officials criticize decision to let accused students play playoff games.”
“Wayne Hills football players involved in off-school-grounds fight suspended for state playoff game.”
O“Alcohol: Drinking and Driving: Rob's story.”
O“Texting May Be Taking a Toll.”
Teen topics!!
Please read
“Doblin: Students suit up while reason gets benched.”
-Reflect on the article
Creating questions to increase and assess student
comprehension!
Multiple choice
True and false
Open-ended questions
How to construct a question?
O Open-ended questions traditionally have an introductory statement.
O Followed by a two part question, indicated by bullets, that address different aspects of the story or article.
O The second part of the question, indicated by the second bullet, addresses the higher levels of the taxonomy. (Comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation)
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy
Sample question According to article, the only connection between the Penn State sexual abuse scandal and the Wayne Hills High School students being arrested for aggravated assault is football and athletics. However, many parents and students do not agree. (statement)
O Identify (question cue) two other possible connections between the Wayne Hills and Penn State incidents.
Any questions?
Characteristics of Effective Lessons
O Collaborative learning/Group workO Active engagementO Independent learning/problem-solvingO Challenging students/setting high
expectationsO Relating subject to students’
interests/prior knowledgeO Respect for students’ education/reportO Mixing joy and structureO Student-centered
Successful Teaching Strategies
O Gallery WalkO Concept SketchesO Just-in-time TeachingO Case StudiesO Role PlayingO Jigsaw TechniqueO Effective discussion/Random “call-on”O DebatesO Using non-verbals to communicate
Gallery WalkO Various, yet related, prompts are set
up at stations around the room and students rotate to each station to post and share responses.
Gallery WalkO Allows students to work together in small
groups to share ideas and respond to meaningful questions, scenarios, and/or texts.
O Strategy is intended for students to share the products of their learning. Students gain valuable skills in critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and public speaking.
Gallery WalkO Procedure:
1. Teacher posts questions, scenarios, etc. at different stations around the room. Posts should be different yet related.
2. Students form groups – one group per station.3. Within a specified period of time (usually 3-4 minutes)
student groups respond to the question or prompt on a poster or large piece of paper posted on the wall or table.
4. After the time has elapsed, students rotate to next station. Students read and discuss the previous group’s response and add content of their own.
5. Repeat this process until students are back at their original poster. Students read, discuss, and summarize all responses on their original poster.
6. Each group reports back to the whole class.
Gallery WalkO Gallery Walk is an effective
teaching strategy because it incorporates the following important teaching strategies:O Collaborative learning/group workO Student engagementO Challenging students (designing
questions using Bloom’s taxonomy)
O Mixing joy and structure O Relating to students’ interest
(material is about a situation currently taking place in our district)
Your Turn To Try It!
Online Stop Watchhttp://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/
Gallery Walk Concluded
O Gallery Walk is a fun, active, and challenging strategy intended for students to share the products of their learning.
O Gallery Walk is an effective teaching technique because it is:O Highly motivating and engagingO Encourages collaborationO Challenges studentsO Mixes joy and structure
Gallery Walk Across the Curriculum
O English/Language Arts:O Editing/RevisingO AnalysisO PredictionsO Discussing literary
devicesO Mathematics
O Solving problemsO Plotting data on graphO Discussing strategies
O ScienceO Solving problemsO Evaluating solutionsO Predicting outcomes
O Social StudiesO Analyzing eventsO Relating past events
to current timesO Compare and
contrastO Pros and cons
Pilot Lesson OutcomesO Too largeO Summarize postersO Questions were given out ahead a
timeO No spontaneous responses
What is a wiki?How can it be used in your
classroom?
A wiki is a space on the Web where you can share work and ideas, pictures and links, videos and media — and anything else you can think of. Wikispaces is special because we give you a visual editor and a bunch of other tools to make sharing all kinds of content as easy for students as it is for their teachers.
http://www.wikispaces.com/content/teacher
O A wiki is a website that allows users to collaboratively create and edit web pages using a web browser.
O This means once you create a wiki, your students can go on and add things to your page. Then you can go on and comment, remove, etc.
http://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki
O For example you can create a wiki for your classroom and post each subject link for your students to view.
O Each link can contain a question of the day, information, information for parents, websites, etc.
O Students can go on and answer questions that you have posted, view websites, read additional information about the given topic.
http://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki
O Teachers can create student accounts or have students create their own.
O Teachers have to do this in order for the students to edit the web pages.
O A teachers can set guidelines such as having a student post their name after they add a comment.
O When a student responds to a discussion question their name automatically appears.
http://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki
O What if a student/parent adds something inappropriate?
O Teachers can lock parts of their wiki where students/parents can not edit the page.
O Teachers can pass out a rules sheet of a wiki page and have parents and students sign off on it.
O Teachers will be able to monitor students adding and removing information on the page to prevent confusion.
http://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki
Educator concerns:
O To sign up for a wiki is simple!
O Just go to www.wikispaces.com
How can you get a wiki ?
Using it in your classroom!
O Class web page
O Information page for parents/students
O Classroom discussion board
O Virtual Field tripshttp://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki
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