1. Welcome to Room 11 Kerry Sanchez

2. What is active learning?
Active learning is student-centered and its goal is to meet the learning needs of all students. Students are not passive observers, but rather active participants in the meaning making process.
What is active learning?

3. Why is active learning important?
Active learning is engaging and inclusive for all students. It promotes community within the classroom and provides opportunity for feedback and reflection.
Why is active learning important?

4. What theories promote this growth?
Behaviorism and Sociocultural Development can be used in a classroom for management and teaching new concepts through active learning.
What theories promote this growth?

5. How do you build community?
1. Learn NAMES.
Determine a SHARED GOAL.
Classroom expectations.
Language of inclusivity.
Mistakes are where learning BEGINS.
Activities that BUILD community - active learning.
Establish a shared history ever-growing community.
How do you build community?

6. Active Learning Strategies
Socratic Questionnaire
Self-Assessment of Ways of Learning Polar Opposites
Pop Culture Make it Personal
Goal Ranking and Matching Whiteboard Capture Tournament
Photo Homework Video Selfie Advice letter Word Journal
Student Storytelling Problem Recognition Tasks
Teacher-Designed Feedback Forms Writing Fables
Think-Pair-Share
Invented Dialogues Give One, Get One Group Experts
With a Creative Twist Balloon Pop
Things You Know Make it a Story Lecture Reaction Movie Application TV Commercial Human Tableau
Build from Restricted Components Simulation
Group Instructional Feedback Technique 80/20 Rule
Up to Half
Group Test/Individual Grade
Scrapbook selection Line Dance
Two Truths and a Lie Name Tag Trio
Speed Skating Answer Any Three Wheel in a Wheel Crossword Puzzle Twenty Questions Who am I?
Student-Generated Test Questions Role Reversal
Anonymous Peer Feedback Wisdom of Another Teacher and Student Closed Eyes Method Brainstorm tree

7. Overview

8. Information Text Structures
+ How nonfiction text is organized
+ 5 types: compare & contrast, description, problem & solution, order & sequence, and cause & effect
+ Understanding structure enhances reading and writing skills

9. Lesson 1

10. Lesson 1
+ CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.3: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
+ Students will use prior knowledge of informational text structures to recall information to create examples of the different text structures.
+ Lesson:
+ YouTube Video
+ Notes
+ Examples
+ Results:
+ Understood material well created short examples with partner

11. Lesson 2

12. Lesson 2
+ CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.5: Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
+ Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of informational text structure by matching text structure with the correct description.
+ Lesson:
+ Review
+ Matching game
+ Results:
+ Partner activity - community building
+ Asking ‘why’ for comprehension
+ Ms. Winter reported high scores on text structure quiz

13. Lesson 3

14. Lesson 3
+ CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.5: Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
+ Students will be able to differentiate between different texts and key words to determine each text structure being used.
+ Lesson:
+ Powerpoint example practice with whiteboards
+ Explaining ‘why?’
+ Crossword Puzzle
+ Results:
+ ‘Why’ = comprehension,
+ Whiteboard feedback
+ Understood concept well

15. Lesson 4

16. Lesson 4
+ CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.9: Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
+ Students will be able to construct an example of each text structure from a given topic using text and online resources.
+ Lesson:
+ Review
+ Create own example with partner
+ Results:
+ Loved being able to choose
+ Examples were creative and followed structures

17. Final Lesson Plan

21. Results + Students were engaged throughout lessons
+ Students did well on my summative assessment as well as the summative assessment from my cooperating teacher
+ Students were able to be active and creative which made it meaningful to their learning

22. Video