Workshop Design August 20, 2013

Trigger Word Activity Workshop

What is Workshop? A way to structure class-time so that the students are doing the majority of the work. A cycle the teacher works through as he/she teaches a lesson. – Mini-lesson – Workshop – Debrief

Mini-lesson Work Time Debrief Adapted from That Workshop Book by Samantha Bennett (2007). Workshop Cycle

Mini-Lesson Set the purpose Build the need to know Directions for the task/practice Modeling Think-aloud Mini-lecture Demonstration Other Pearson, P. D., & Gallagher, M. C. (1983). The instruction of reading comprehension. Contemporary

Work Time Students will: Read, Write, Talk Practice skills Complete task Gauge their own understanding Teacher will: Conference with student groups/individual Gauge understanding (Formative Assessment) Differentiate instruction as needed

Debrief Students will: Share understanding Share thinking Share task accomplished during work time Teacher will: Label responses (Anchor Charts) Hold thinking to use for future teaching and learning Build Momentum for the next work time or class.

Design a Lesson Break into subject/grade level groups of four Task: – Create a rough draft of a workshop lesson on a lesson topic e.g. revising, inference, writing process, etc… Mini-lesson Work Time Debrief Questions – Be prepared to share design from chart paper

Workshop Debrief What components of the Workshop Cycle are similar to how we already create our lessons? How will this design help our students? What questions do you have about the Workshop Cycle?