June Preszler Education Specialist, TIE August 23, 2007

 Status check  Activating learning  Building vocabulary  Summarizing learning  Differentiating learning  Integrating technology  Assessing learning

 I believe my role in the teaching of writing is…  Something I enjoy about teaching writing is…  Something I struggle with when it comes to teaching writing is…  I assess writing by…  The importance of writing in the Meade School District and why (rank 1-5, 5 high)

 Strategies that work and how to use them

 The concept: Counting Coup  What do you think it means?  Think-Ink-Pair-Share—Content Area Writing,

 Not a person  But a thing  “The biggest enemy our children have are those things sitting in front of you and they’re called books.”—Gerard Baker

 “What do you do with your enemies? You conquer them.”  “We have to redefine our enemies and conquer them.”

 “We have to count coup on books.”  Three-Minute Pause (Write) (Struggling Readers, 21)  Vocabulary Notebook (Build Student Vocabularies, 24)

 Identifying the enemy  Empowering the student  Becoming a warrior  Conquering the enemy

 Choice Theory (Glasser and Erwin)  All behavior is purposeful  Five basic needs that drive all behavior:  Survival  Love and belonging  Power  Freedom  Fun

 Power over  Power within  Power with

 Please return in 15 minutes  You’ll know it’s time to come back to me when the music stops…

 Reading Strategies to Guide Learning, page 7  Virtual World of Second Life  Independently  Share with partner or small group  Share with class  Write a prediction of what you think you’ll learn

 In your group, read the article provided  Research Second Life via the Internet  As you learn more information, jot down the ideas on your ABC chart  Write a paragraph (or two) describing one (or two) things you’d like to share (teach) the rest of us about Second Life

On your own, summarize your learning. Some guiding questions you might want to consider:  What new information have you learned regarding Second Life?  Why is Second Life so successful?  Who uses Second Life?  How could Second Life be used in the classroom?  Would you consider using Second Life in your classroom? Why or why not?

 Text to self  Text to text  Text to world  More Strategies to Guide Learning, pages 5-7

 When we summarize, we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials.  Bare essentials: the gist, the key, the main points worth remembering.  Content Area Writing, 16-23

When working with struggling students, we need to understand that summarize academic learning doesn’t come automatically. In fact, we need to provide students with a variety of approaches to use as students attempt to summarize.

 Summarizing and note taking are identified as two of the most useful academic skills for all students.  Summarizing and note taking are grouped together since both require students to distill and then synthesize.

Students must delete, substitute and keep information. Students must analyze information at a deep level of understanding. Students must be aware of the information’s structure in order to effectively summarize.  Marzano, et al: Classroom Instruction that Works, pages 30-32

 Ear Wax

 Provide students with a selection  Ask students to take notes of important details  When students have finished, direct them to turn over the paper and write what they remember…without looking back

 Have students write successively shorter summaries, constantly refining and reducing  Begin with half a page, then two paragraphs, then one paragraph, then two or three sentences, then a single sentence

 Read articles  Create GIST for articles, Content Area Writing,  Create poster  Share summaries

 It’s lunch time; please return at 1:15

 Three Facts and a Fib  Strategies to Help Struggling Readers, page 25

1.When I took my son to college, I camped out in the dorm parking lot for the first night…just in case. 2.I played soccer for a championship youth team in Brazil in the 1970s. 3.In one month, I traveled over 3000 miles for education-related business, had one accident in a BHSSC/TIE vehicle, and received two undeserved speeding tickets. 4. I began my professional career as a recipe writer for the Aberdeen American News.

 R=Heart (Role)  A=French Fries (Audience)  F=Complaint (Format)  T=Effects of fat in the diet (Topic)  S=Warn (Strong Verb)  You are Heart and are concerned about your good health. Write a letter of complaint to the French Fries. Warn the French Fries of the effects of fat in the diet.  See handout

Dear French Fries, I’m writing to give you a warning. You are killing me! You may not realize that one small serving of you contains more saturated fat than I can handle in an entire day. I’ve had it with your high sodium, fat, cholesterol, and artery-clogging ways. Your value- meal family may be easy on the wallet but you are really costly to me. Clean up your act, The Heart

Dear Mary, It is important to use punctuation. Why aren’t you using punctuation? Punctuation marks are periods, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, and so on. When you write you should always use my marks or people won’t know what you mean. I know your teacher has shown you how to use my marks. Please use them everyday. Thank you, Peter Punctuation Ruth Culham, 6+1 Traits of Writing: Professional Study Guide

 Music in the Wind, Bev Doolittle DetailsInferences Making Meaning through Inferences, 16

 Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning. (From Carol Ann Tomlinson, ASCD)

 Learning profiles differ  Active learners, decision makers, problem solvers  Making meaning priority  Opportunity for choice

 Proactive  Varied approaches  Multiple approaches to content, process and product  Student centered  Ebb and flow of whole-class, group and individual instruction  Carol Ann Tomlinson, The Differentiated Classroom, 1999

 Individualized instruction  Chaotic  Homogeneous grouping  Bluebirds and buzzards  Hard questions for the gifted, easy questions for the struggling  Carol Ann Tomlinson, The Differentiated Classroom, 1999

 Teachers engage students in instruction through different learning modalities.  A student competes more against self than others.  Teachers provide specific ways for individuals to learn.  Teachers use classroom time flexibly.  Carol Ann Tomlinson, The Differentiated Classroom, 1999

 Content (what students learn)  Process (how students learn)  Product (how students show what they know)

 Start small—one strategy, one area.  Start with what is—mine ideas; determine what all students will do, what some students will do; identify basic and advanced activities.  Get students ready—discuss differences, organize, “fair” not “same.”

 Know  Understand  Do

 Main dish: Everyone  Side dish: Pick and choose  Dessert: Optional but irresistible  Differentiation, Grades 4-12, 10-11

 Looks at topics from different angles  Eliminates flat thinking  Includes six commands and a prompt  Differentiation, Grades 4-12, 12-13

 Strategy used to review, demonstrate, and extend thinking  Can be developed to respond to learner readiness, learning profiles, student choice  Variation of cubes; works well with older students

 Allows students choice  Incorporates learning preferences  Takes readiness into account (basic and advanced)  Provides framework  Differentiation, Grades 4-12, 14-15

 Easy strategy for assessing student learning  Students respond to prompts or questions; turn in cards as they leave  Teacher uses card to help create groups, monitor student progress, revise lessons  Struggling Readers, 27