Will try to write this one again. The 1st one got deleted. I’m not pointing any fingers but WORDPRESS sure is acting suspiciously!!! My brain is now officially hurting so this one will be short, dry, and to the point. 🙂
Fantastic workshop today on content literacy/strategic teaching.
Essential Elements for Adolescent Learning:
1. Collaborative Leadership-Principal is responsible for motivating, providing effective PD, and instructional practices.
2. Assessment-Data driven instruction with MULTIPLE forms of assessment, constantly monitoring progress of students
3. Intervention- Targeted skills instruction, small group instruction
4. Professional Development- Should be ongoing (foreva), job embedded, and continually assessed
5. Strategic Teaching- Purposeful planning, multiple strategies used, explicit instruction with time for different kinds of practice
The one thing that made me perk up was purposeful planning. I’m going to ask myself WHY before I plan lessons, activities, assessments, grading practices, etc. I expect myself to answer myself with a justified explanation. 🙂
STRATEGIC TEACHING includes the following:
**One overall outcome based on standards
**Two instructional practices- chunking material and student discussion
**Three parts to lesson-Before, During, After
**Four steps to explicit instruction-I do, We do, Y’all do, You do
**Five parts of active literacy-TWIRL-talking, writing, investigating, reading, listening
Before examples-quick writes, abc brainstorm, anticipation guides, think alouds
During examples-talk to text, jot notes, mini-lecture
After examples-321, anticipation guide follow ups, code the text
You can google these to see what they look like. I’ll post links to some later. Like a lot later. Says panicky Shannon. 🙂
This workshop is making me want to be THAT strategic teacher. The one who plans everything with the students in mind and with a purpose. The one who goes home each day knowing she gave it her all. 🙂
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