Welcome Get ready for active participation and sharing powerful instructional strategies. Susan Gustafson Follmer Principal, International School of Monagas, Maturin, Venezuela

School-wide Instruction Practices That Rock My goal Model the interactive lecture Honor the expertise in this room Give us a plan for Monday

Learning Objectives: Participants will… Be able to articulate five instructional practices with big payoffs for student learning. Identify what they will do differently on Monday. Leave with resources to keep learning.

How has instruction changed in the past thirty years?

How has instruction changed in the past thirty years? Digital Foreigners Rows Textbooks Some Learn I like teaching about dinosaurs Sit and Get Digital Natives Circles www. None Are Left Behind Aligned Curriculum Facilitator of learning

What’s your Theory of Action about instruction?

What are powerful five powerful instructional practices for school-wide implementation? Setting the Stage Clear and Articulated Learning Objective Cooperative Learning Helping Students Develop Understanding Go Visual Summarizing Helping Students Extend and Apply Learning Identifying Similarities and Differences

Setting the Stage: Clear, written and Articulated Learning Objectives Students will be able to…. Content Language

Content Objectives Create Reflect Content Organize Evaluate Contrast

Language Objectives Language Write Clearly articulate Explain Debate Rewrite

Setting the Stage: Cooperative Learning What is it? Positive Interdependence Individual Accountability Best of Brain Research Students talk and reflect Students go deeper with the content Meets social emotional needs

Setting the Stage: Cooperative Learning How? Keep size small, <6 Assign roles http://www.successatthecore.com/teacher_development_strategy.aspx?id=5 Heterogeneous

Helping Students Develop Understanding: Go Visual Non-Linguistic Representations Vision Trumps ALL other senses 10/60 Rule John Medina’s Brain Rules Information stored in language or images Examples: Manipulatives Mental Pictures Kinesthetic Activities

Go Visual with Graphic Organizers Visual Tools by David Hyerle http://www.ehow.com/about_5366522_kinds-thinking-maps.html http://www.thinkingmaps.com/videoview.php?v=w

Helping Students Develop Understanding: Summarizing Sort, Select and Combine Information Reading Strategies for Reciprocal Teaching Summarize Question Clarify Predict Notetaking: Model it and Teach it Rule Based Summarizing Strategy Take out what is not important and repetitive Find or create topics and subtopics

Helping Students Extend and Apply: Identifying Similarities and Differences Facilitate don’t tell but guide CHUNKING: Comparing and Contrasting CHUNKING: Classifying CHUNKING: Creating Metaphors CHUNKING: Creating Analogies A:B :: C:D

What will I do differently on Monday to prepare my students for a successful tomorrow?

Resources http://www.successatthecore.com/ http://www.edutopia.org/ http://www.thinkingmaps.com/