1. Previewing New Content
Design Question 2 – Element 8:
How do teachers help their students use prior knowledge to learn new knowledge?

2. Before we begin…
Before we begin talking about element eight, let’s be sure that there is an understanding about how the elements in Design Question 2 are related. This is important as you plan your lessons. Directions: watch the video on the next slide. Please take notes, documenting how the elements in Design Question 2 are related.

3. Video – how do the elements in DQ2 relate to each other?
Please click on the link to view the video from Pasco County Schools that provides an introduction to the elements in Design Question 2.

4. How were do the DQ2 elements relate to each other?
You should have noticed that
the elements in DQ2 can be taught at the same time, need to be intentionally planned for, and are directed by the teacher or the student.
elements 6-9 are teacher directed but elements are more student directed.
it requires adults to be exposed to new information 7 different times in 7 different ways to learn something so it makes sense that students require more than 7.
Now let’s talk about element eight, specifically.

5. Review Teacher and Student Evidence NOTE: This list of evidence is not all inclusive but is instead a list of possible examples.

6. Review Scale for Element 8

7. Desired Effect in the Students
The desired effect is, “students make a link from what they know to what is about to be learned: activating prior knowledge.” To receive an Innovating rating, the teacher must monitor and make accommodations so that every student in their classroom achieves this desired effect. In other words, every student must be able to link prior knowledge to what they are learning in the classroom.

8. Task While watching the video, which is on the next slide, identify:
what the teacher does to help her students recall what they previously learned.
After watching the video you will be asked to identify the teacher and student evidence to rate the teacher on this element.

9. Video – What does the teacher do to help her students remember what they previously learned?
Click on the link to view a video from the Pasco County Schools about Design Question 2, Element 8: Previewing New Content.

10. Video Question
Q: What does the teacher do to help her students remember what they have previously learned so that they can use this prior knowledge to learn something new today (the main idea or theme of a story)? A: The teacher used nestling bags to remind her students about previously taught knowledge. Within this process she reminded them of inferences and then used that to connect it to the new knowledge of main idea/theme.

11. Task
On the next slide is the teacher and student evidence. What evidence did you see and were able to document? Use this to rate the teacher as you walk through the next few slides.

12. Review Teacher and Student Evidence What did you see?

13. Review Teacher and Student Evidence What did we see?

14. How to Rate Teacher and Student Evidence
You can only give credit for what you see. You can see during the video that the teacher was reminding them about what they learned by using a hook activity: the nestling bags. You can also see that students were engaged in the strategy because they were volunteering to answer questions. This is why these three specific boxes were checked.

15. Review Scale for Element 8 to Rate the Teacher

16. How we Rated the Teacher
We rated the teacher as Applying because she monitored the majority of students to ensure that they were able to connect their prior knowledge to their new knowledge about main idea/theme. She had them talk to their shoulder partners while she listened to their conversations and then she asked questions of specific students. Not everyone was monitored though so we could not give her an Innovating rating. In fact, at the end of the video, she asks the class if they are ready to move on and the boy to the far right does not raise his hand. She makes no attempt to help him achieve the desired effect.

17. Task
Below is a list of specific strategies you can use to connect prior knowledge to new knowledge. Choose at least two to read thoroughly, trying to find a strategy you can implement in your room in the next week. If the links do not work, simply log in to effectiveducators.com and search the Resource Library by the titles listed below.
What do You Think You Know? (KWL)
Use of Preview Questions (music, math, and language examples)
Use of Guided Notes and Combination Notes
Use of Overt Linkages
Use of Skimming (SQ3R)

18. What is next?
Choose one strategy from the previous slide that you can implement in the next week.
Identify how you can incorporate other elements from Design Question 2 into your lesson plan.
If you want an Applying rating, plan how you will elicit prior knowledge from the majority of your students and how you will connect it to the new knowledge you want them to learn.
If you want an Innovating rating, plan how you will elicit prior knowledge from all of your students and how you will connect it to the new knowledge you want them to learn.

19. Is this element in your PGP? Then you need to…
sign into Click on the Growth tab and then click on the Plans option. Open your current plan and fill out a new Reflection Log, answering the applicable questions.
decide how you will change your teaching as a result of viewing this module.
execute your change, reflect on its impact, and fill out another Reflection Log in iObservation.

20. Further questions?
Here are resources in case you have further questions:
Your evaluator
Another evaluator on your campus
Your school’s classroom practice mentor (CPM)