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Lets Talk A bout T alking!. Learning through social constructivism GSSD Coaches Andrea Hnatiuk & Cindy Smith. We start and end on time. We are a community of professional learners; we have an obligation to participate and collaborate. Please consider how you are contributing. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Learning through social constructivism
GSSD Coaches
Andrea Hnatiuk & Cindy Smith
*Lets Talk About Talking!
*Our Professional Growth
Commitment
*We start and end on time.
*We are a community of professional learners; we have an obligation to participate and collaborate. Please consider how you are contributing.
*We create a safe place to be heard, we can take risks.
*We respect everyone’s point of view.
*We use technology appropriately in the spirit of professional learning.
What will I be able to do when I am done here today?
I can identify and implement instructional strategies that promote collaborative learning in order to increase student learning outcomes
What is important for me to learn and understand so that I can hit the target?
I can learn and understand various forms of communication and its role in helping students construct meaning for themselves
What will I do to show that I understand?
I can implement effective instructional strategies that meet and assist student learning outcomes.
Moss, C., & Brookhart, M. (2012). Learning targets: Helping students aim for understanding in today’s lesson. Alexandria: ASCD.
*Reflective Communication
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*Research-Based Practice
*“Human thinking is inherently social in its origins…”
*There is a “fundamental link between instructional practice and student outcomes”
* Marilyn Goos, Journal of Research in Mathematical Education, 2004
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*Connections*Recognize and use connections among ideas
*Understand how ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole
*Recognize and apply learnings in contexts outside of school
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*Communication*Organize and consolidate their ideas thinking
through communication
*Communicate their learning coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others
*Analyze and evaluate the thinking and strategies of others
* Important Reasons to Promote Communicating
*Students construct meaning for themselves
*Students clarify their ideas
*Students speak to each other and write about learning to reflect on their learning, self-monitor, and set goals
*We can assess students by listening and reading their ideas and understandings. We inform our practice based on what we learn about student understanding
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*Piaget
*knowledge is constructed as the learner strives to organize his or her experiences in terms of pre-existing mental structures or schemas
*For today’s young adolescents, success in school and, later in college or the workplace will demand critical thinking skills and the ability to function as a team member within highly complex social systems….Students who frequently learn within well-structured cooperative environments will be better prepared for the challenges of today’s world.
* Igel & Urquhart, 2012
*Length and correctness of responses increases
*Number of “I don’t know” and “no answer” responses decreases
*Number of volunteered appropriate answers increases
*Student achievement increases
*Teacher questioning quality, strategies and flexibility improve
*Teachers ask higher level questions that require greater complexity of response
Positive outcomes of three seconds of undisturbed wait time (when questioning)
*The secret to successful teaching is being able to determine what students are thinking and then using that information as the basis for instruction.
*Teachers learn what students are thinking through student communication.
*When students communicate…either orally or in writing, they make their thinking and understanding clear to others as well as to themselves.
* -Ontario Ministry of Education
*How can we create a classroom environment that fosters an atmosphere of safe contribution and values communication?
*What does a classroom have to be like for our students to participate and communicate effectively?
*Video
*Before Viewing: Round Table Discussion
*During Viewing:
How did the teacher contribute to an environment that allowed the students learn in this way?
*After Viewing: Create Norms
*Class Norms
*How do we allow students to freely participate?
*Take ownership of their ideas?
*Honour each others contributions?
*Understand that we need to make mistakes in order to learn?
*Respect each others’ opinions and ideas?
*Listen and dialogue with respect?
*Persist?
*Let’s Talk – Group Hosting
*Give One, Get One, Move On
*Inside-Outside Circle
*Closure – Talking Probes
*Reflective Listening