Need Help Revising Your Lesson Plan?

As you work on your lesson plan, take a look at these helpful comments…

 

See Ratanya’s comments on A Teacher Is…

See Jerry’s comments to Allison

See Allison’s comments to Catherine

See Lindsay’s comment to Making Reading Relevant

Posts to look at before the midterm

Take a look at these:
 
Amanda

Chelsea

 

Lindsay

Lindsey

 

Kyle

 

Katherine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"VOICES FROM THE CLASSROOM"

Ms. Carson is eager to start a new unit in her first period eighth grade mathematics class. She has been teaching for seven years and knows her content well. She believes vocabulary is important for her students to understand in order for them to be able to master the concepts she teaches, so she consistently presents and makes assignments for each instructional unit in the same way. The following is her approach.

“I hope you had a great weekend and are ready to start fresh with our new unit on probability and statistics. I've listed the vocabulary terms we will focus on for this study. You know the drill: Copy the terms, write the definitions, and write a sentence using each appropriately. Some of them will be a little difficult for now. Give it your best effort. Are there any questions?”

Your Jigsaw Task:

In the comment section below, provide a Home Group response to 1 of the following questions:

• Ms. Carson asked you, a member of her teaching team, to observe her class and offer some feedback. Now, she is sitting across from you expecting you to share your insight. What are 3 pieces of advice you'd give Ms. Carson about teaching vocabulary? Use your textbook to point out specific pages Ms. Carson might want to look at to get a better understanding of your advice.

• It seems like Ms. Carson is in the preparation phase of her lesson. Using your textbook to support your response, make a case for expanding vocabulary instruction to the assistance and reflection phases. (please include page numbers)

Source:

"VOICES FROM THE CLASSROOM" from Reading to Learn in the Content Areas  8^th ed., p. 168

Note...



Only have time to read one post about ch. 5?

 

Try one of these…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stacie, who is teaching a 5^th grade inclusion class, wonders about selectively mute students;

Allison shares a web quest she developed;

Chelsea points out that we need specific strategies for nurturing autonomous learners; and

Maria shares additional information about cooperative learning.

 

 

 

 

 



Vocabulary Self-Selection Strategy

Vocabulary Self-Selection Strategy

Which concepts are important to you?

Please post your words & definitions in the Comment Section below.

And the winner is....

If we were to give a prize for the most blogged about strategy, mapping would probably win.

 

Take a look at what these bloggers have to say about it:








 

Chris;

Allison (also see the interesting news article Allison shared from the VP);
 

Kyle (also take a look at the discussion in the comments section);

and

Jerry.

QAR

See pages 100-101 in Reading to Learn in the Content Areas for the discussion on QAR.

Read the text selection.

Create one question and post it in the comments section below.

Story Impression

Take a look at the terms below.  Together, write a "story" about what we might learn about today and post it in the comments section below.

Taxonomy

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Classifying

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Domains

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Kingdoms

Thinking about teaching with blogs?

Blogs can be used as a portfolio.

Students can post regularly.

Towards the end of the unit, semester, or year, they can reflect on what they have written, noting growth, including posts that show them moving outside their comfort zones by trying new rhetorical devices (or content area concepts such as using primary sources to make an argument about a historical event or person or explaining how they approached algebraic equations one way in the beginning of the unit another toward the end).

What do you think?

What are some authentic ways we can use blogs to teach a concept or skill?

You should see this...

Chs. 2-3

Catherine has an informative video on literature circles, and Amanda shares a quote from Maya Angelou that sums up the importance of the affective domain  before challenging us to think critically about how and why we incorporate technology.

Happy reading and blogging!




 

1.How does a teacher determine students’ prior knowledge?

2.What are some teaching methods that can help students gain a more internal locus of control?

3. What is conation?

4. How does understanding cognitive dissonance help teachers?

 5. Why is it important for teachers to know about locus of control?