1. EDU 221

2. Problem Solving review Chapter 13 Group Presentation Barfield’s PP Vygotsky and the ZPD Core Methods Examples Writing Conferences For Thursday: Read Chapter 14

3. Thinking skills instructional principles: Focus on a few well-designed skills Contextualize the skills within authentic tasks Personalize the skills Accelerate the skills so that students learn them along with lower-level skills (Mayer, 2008, p. 454-455)

4. Social Context of Learning Learning occurs within the ZPD Teaching as assisting performance

5. Students as cognitive apprentices Instructional methods used that focus on cognitive skills

6. Modeling Scaffolding Coaching Reflection Fading

7. Reciprocal Teaching Cooperative Learning Participatory Modeling

8. Writing Conference Reader/Writer –Comes with a purpose –Reads the story/piece –Makes changes –Thanks partner Listener/Helper –Sits close to see the story –Listens while the story is read –Helps Revise & Edit Gives Compliments Asks questions Makes suggestions