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43: Backwards Design Template & Standards

Wiggins, Grant P., and Jay McTighe.  Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998.  Print.    Stage 1 Template   Stage 1 Evaluation standards To what extend does the design focus on the big ideas of targeted content? Are the targeted understandings enduring, based on transferable, big ideas at the heart of the discipline and in need of uncoverage? framed by questions that spark meaningful connections, provoke […]

42: Coverage vs Uncoverage

Chapter 10 in Wiggins, Grant P., and Jay McTighe.  Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998.  Print.        Coverage coverage of surface details with little depth treats all facts as discrete parts of equal value teaching by mentioning tends to cover up big ideas Pitfalls to avoid: taking […]

37: Simple Framework for Rigor

“What Rigor Looks Like in the Classroom: What Rigorous Instruction Requires Students to Do.” YouTube. YouTube. Web. 16 Mar. 2016.       4 Elements to Rigor:  Student are approaching material with rigor when they … make meaning for themselves ask students to explain content in their own words ask students to explain how content can be used to solve […]

18: Lesson Plan Model for Cognitive Engagement

Garner, Betty K. Getting “got It!”: Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn.  Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007. Print       Lesson Plan Model for Cognitive Engagement: Explore: Students notice and gather sensory input. Describe: Students make connections with prior knowledge Explain: Teacher clarifies and builds on student associations, introduces new concepts […]

17: Cognitive Structures Part 2 of 2

Garner, Betty K. Getting to “got It!”: Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn.  Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007.  Print.     This is a continuation of the discussion in 16: Cognitive structures part 1 of 2. Spatial orientation: cognitive structure that helps people identify and compare objects and places and relate […]

16: Cognitive Structures Part 1 of 2

Garner, Betty K. Getting to “got It!”: Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007. Print       Cognitive Structures: Basic mental processes people use to make sense of information 3 categories: comparative, logical, and logical representation Used to make connections, find relationships & patterns, formulate […]

81: Multigenre Projects

Chapter 8 in Daniels, Harvey, Steven Zemelman, and Nancy Steineke.  Content-area Writing: Every Teacher’s Guide.  Portmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007.  Print.       Multigenre Project Instead of one long research paper, students compose several shorter pieces focused on a single topic Recommended related reading: Blending Genre, Altering Styles by Tom Romano Writing with Passion by Tom Romano […]

41: Rubric Design & Implementation

Chapter 8 in Wiggins, Grant P., and Jay McTighe.  Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998.  Print.        Types of rubrics: Holistic – assign one score to performance Analytic – assign multiple scores to multiple factors that evaluate performance Analytic rubrics communicate more information than holistic rubrics Rubric […]

39: Essential Questions

Chapter 5 in Wiggins, Grant P., and Jay McTighe.  Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998.  Print.    What are essential questions? thought provoking questions that guide students to key big ideas in the discipline broad questions full of many transfer opportunities engaging, stimulates lively discussions requires students to consider […]

21: Standardized Test Prep

Ellis, Shelby, and Jenna Shinners.  “EOC by the Sea.”  Lead4ward.  Corpus Christi.  15 Sept. 2015. Lecture “Lead4ward on the App Store.”  App Store.  Web. 15 Mar. 2016.     2 Skills the Support Success of Students on Standardized Tests: Access: being able to use and find information in your brain;  good to have because standardized texts […]