1. Welcome! From the Backpack … Kindly sit in groups of FIVE!
A Few Practical Instructional Strategies
Facilitated by the Ed. Dept.
Kindly sit in groups of FIVE!

2. Agenda: 3-Part Lesson Plan
Part 1 - Minds On
Visual Synectics
Numbered Heads
Part 2 - Active
Think-Pair-Share
Theory
Place Mat
BREAK!
Topic KWL chart
Save the Last Word
Jigsaw: Home/Expert Groups
Part 3 - Consolidate/
Debrief
Give One/Get One
Exit Tickets

3. Part 1 Minds On:
Visual Synectics

4. Part 1 - Minds On
By yourself: Choose a visual and complete the following sentence stems:
“Teaching at a Christian University is like… because…”
“Teaching … is NOT like… because…”
Share your sentences with colleagues at your table group
choose ONE of your visuals to share with the larger group

5. Part 1 - Minds On
Numbered heads

6. Part 2: Active THINK… PAIR… SHARE…
What sorts of things do you do in your classes to help you determine that your students are learning?
PAIR…
Turn to a partner and share some of the assessment strategies you use.
SHARE…
Ideas with the larger group. Let’s hear from Letter …

7. Part 2 - Active Invisible/ Covert Visible/ Overt
Theory : Moving student learning from the invisible to the visible
Think/Pair/Share: “How do you know they’re learning?”
Invisible/
Covert
Visible/
Overt

8. “Good Teaching is an act of hospitality.” (Parker Palmer)
“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me.”
(Mark 9:37)
“Ministry of Education Key Principles: Be more understanding, be more flexible and be more proactive.” (Early Leaver study, Ministry of Education) 8

9. Part 2: Placemat
Have person B draw a box in the centre of your group’s chart paper.
Person B then draws lines out from the centre so that there are enough spaces for each person in your group to have a spot to write on the placemat (the centre stays empty for now)
Wait for further instructions…

10. Placemat A word about the content …
Each person finds his/her own spot on the placemat.
Consider the following three quotations… what connections do you see between the three?
A word about the content …
Write some ideas in your own space on the placemat (NO TALKING to your neighbours!)

11. “Good Teaching is an act of hospitality.” (Parker Palmer)
“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me.”
(Mark 9:37)
“Ministry of Education Key Principles: Be more understanding, be more flexible and be more proactive.” (Early Leaver study, Ministry of Education)

12. Placemat
Now, turn your placemat counter clockwise a quarter turn, so that you can read your neighbour’s response. Feel free to add ideas.
Turn the placemat again and read the next person’s ideas.

13. Placemat
Once everyone in your group has had a chance to read everyone’s ideas, discuss and synthesize your connections. Reach consensus, and write one connection in the centre of your placemat! 13

14. Part 2: Active Placemat debrief: Anchor Charts
How do we collect/share info?
- numbered heads report
- gallery walk
- one stay, the rest stray
- coloured markers (for assessment)
- other?

15. Part 2: Active
KWL
What do you already know about the task of the professor at a Christian University?
What do you want to find out?
(later) What did you learn?

16. BREAK
Parking lot

17. Part 2: Active Discussion vs. Dialogue Text-based dialogue
“Save the Last Word for Me”

18. “Save the Last Word”
Read individually. Highlight /mark 2 or 3 phrases or ideas.
Person A – share one of your items, but do not comment on it.
Group members comment on the item in round-robin fashion. (No cross talk!)
Person A then shares his or her thinking about the item and gets – "The Last Word".
Repeat the pattern around the table until all every group member has had the opportunity to share one item.

19. Part 2: Active Jigsaw OR Home/Expert Groups
You will be directed to gather with re-formatted groups which are semi-structured.
Gushee’s FIVE Virtues of the professor at a Christian University

20. Jigsaw Instructions
Move to your expert group – you will be given an “expert” envelope which contains a graphic organizer and a “virtue” reading !
A’s – Spiritual Virtue
B’s– Relational Virtue
C’s – Intellectual Virtue
D’s – Social Virtue
E’s – Personal Virtue
Read your group’s excerpt silently to yourself.
Define your group’s virtue; prepare a 30-second spiel to share with your home group (you can write it on your graphic organizer!) If your group chooses you can use the Place Mat process to define the group’s virtue.
Return to your home group; share your insights, listen as others share theirs, and complete your graphic organizer!
We hopefully have 10 EXPERT groups of five or six people each.
In the Jigsaw envelope, you will find:
A “letter” Card – have one person hold this up so other “experts” can find their table.
One graphic organizer for each person.
A section of text on one of Gushee’s five “virtues” – one copy for each person.

21. Part 2: Active
kwL debrief
What did we learn?

22. Part 3: Consolidate/Debrief
Give One/Get One…. Exit Tickets (Vera)

23. “Give One/Get One” Find a coloured index card on your table.
On one side, please number: 1. 2. 3.

24. “Give One/Get One”
Affirmation – Something I already knew or believed that was confirmed for me in today’s session…
“A-ha!” Moment – Something new I learned today… Or, something I am excited to try out with my own students…
Question – Something I am still wondering about…

25. Thanks for your participation!
Please hand in your card on the way out… …. Feel free to /call us anytime for further conversation about any of these strategies from the backpack!  25