9-16-14

•Review

•ETC, Ch. 3

•Practice the principles

Agenda:

Starter Question: Describe a time you learned something challenging.

Teacher performs with help from students

Teacher performs alone; students watch

Teacher performs, but students do significant work

Students perform with help from teacher

Students perform; teacher watches

Students perform independently

Students continue to perform and perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG8lAzrdLFo

http://www.twjc.co.uk/tut001.html

Goal: Juggle 3 balls

Ten Principles of Practice

1. Provide necessary conditions

2. Establish & communicate specific objectives

3. Make explicit connections

4. Prepare students with needed skills/knowledge

5. Integrate assessment throughout the process

6. Teach learning strategies

7. Demystify literacy practices & performances

8. Use different methods, modes, and media

9. Have students generate questions & ideas

10. Provide meaningful opportunities to practice & perform

ETC, p 50Sample lesson

Sample project: Create a book trailer for an SSR book.

What’s your GOAL for this assignment? (What do you want students to know or be able to do as a result of completing it?)

What knowledge or skills do students already have?

What knowledge or skills do they not yet have?

How can they get that knowledge or those skills? (How much do you need to provide? What can they get on their own? How much help or guidance do they need?)

What’s the target? (What does a successful performance look like?)

What’s your GOAL for this assignment? (What do you want students to know or be able to do as a result of completing it?)

What knowledge or skills do students already have?• They know how to determine a central idea or theme.• They know how to write for a specific task, purpose, and audience.• They have varying degrees of familiarity with video-making software.

What knowledge or skills do they not yet have?

• They might not know the “book trailer” genre.• They might need to learn some software.• They might need to learn how to “storyboard” a video.

How can they get that knowledge or those skills?

• Minilessons in class.• Learning from each other in small groups.

What’s the target?

Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3

Sample project: Experience a poem every day in class.

What’s your GOAL for this assignment? (What do you want students to know or be able to do as a result of completing it?)

What knowledge or skills do students already have?

What knowledge or skills do they not yet have?

How can they get that knowledge or those skills? (How much do you need to provide? What can they get on their own? How much help or guidance do they need?)

What’s the target? (What does a successful performance look like?)

Fire 

What makes a fire burnis space between the logs,

a breathing space.Too much of a good thing,

too many logspacked in too tight

can douse the flamesalmost as surely

as a pail of water would.

So building firesrequires attention

to the spaces in between,as much as to the wood.

When we are able to buildopen spaces 

in the same waywe have learned

to pile on the logs,then we can come to see how

it is fuel, and absence of the fueltogether, that make fire possible.

We only need to lay a loglightly from time to time.

A fire grows

simply because the space is there,with openings 

in which the flamethat knows just how it wants to burn 

can find its way.

Sample project: Explain figurative language in a poem.

What’s your GOAL for this assignment? (What do you want students to know or be able to do as a result of completing it?)

What knowledge or skills do students already have?

What knowledge or skills do they not yet have?

How can they get that knowledge or those skills? (How much do you need to provide? What can they get on their own? How much help or guidance do they need?)

What’s the target? (What does a successful performance look like?)

Fire 

What makes a fire burnis space between the logs,

a breathing space.Too much of a good thing,

too many logspacked in too tight

can douse the flamesalmost as surely

as a pail of water would.

So building firesrequires attention

to the spaces in between,as much as to the wood.

When we are able to buildopen spaces 

in the same waywe have learned

to pile on the logs,then we can come to see how

it is fuel, and absence of the fueltogether, that make fire possible.

We only need to lay a loglightly from time to time.

A fire grows

simply because the space is there,with openings 

in which the flamethat knows just how it wants to burn 

can find its way.

Another set of “guiding principles” for effective instruction

1. Provide multiple entry points into every lesson

2. Employ a range of instructional modes

3. Use a variety of group formats

4. Describe and demonstrate each strategy

5. Develop student’s background knowledge

What would each principle look like for the lesson on “Fire”?

For next week, read and respond to the next section of ETC.