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Presenters: Darla Magana and Jeni Johnson from St. Margaret’s Episcopal School. Reproducibles at: http://www.smes.org/main/library/CSLA_2012_Collaboration_Success/presentation_links.html. Collaboration Success!: A Research Model. Who Are We?. Darla Magana dmagana@smes.org Jeni Johnson
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Presenters: Darla Magana and Jeni Johnson from St. Margaret’s Episcopal School Reproducibles at: http://www.smes.org/main/library/CSLA_2012_Collaboration_Success/presentation_links.html Collaboration Success!: A Research Model
Who Are We? • Darla Magana • dmagana@smes.org • Jeni Johnson • jjohnson@smes.org • Lori Donchak How we Got Started
Ends with a debate—high motivation! Emphasis on the Research Process. Students will be able to access, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize of information. Repetition of skills New topic each year “Foundational”unit The Research Unit • Military Draft • NASA • Universal Health Care • United Nations/ Humanitarian Assistance • Net Neutrality • Nuclear Energy • US Social Services
The research Process Students introduced to this through the Research Process Tutorial!
Research Process Tutorial Quiz screen shot
Defining the terms Building background What do we know? What do we need to know? Statistical information Key vocabulary Understanding the end product Research binder organization Presearch
Learning to access helpful resources • Know your resources • Database Searching • Web Evaluation Research
The HEART of the research unit! Research
Front side • Notes (pro and con) • Main idea • Summarize • Analyze • Categorize Notepacket
Back side • Identify author and sponsor/publisher • Learn about them • Evaluate their credibility • Identify bias Notepacket
What is Excellence? • Guidance for when all the different pieces of the notepacket. Research
3-4 “guided” notepackets • 2 guest speaker notepackets • 2-4 database resources • Total of 9-11 required notepackets Research
Outlines—pro and con • Essays—pro and con • Works Cited--Noodletools • Debate • Teams of 4 people—combine their best arguments • Panel judging • Best of the best move to school wide debate Create
Describe metacognition and growth mindset What did you do well? What could you do better next time? Letter to your future self Evaluate
What should we keep? What should we toss? What should we tweak and how? Year one. A lesson in persistence. Evaluate—Teacher Style!
Comprehensive process but the pieces could work alone. Low tech—high tech EVERYTHING is linked from the CSLA website (symbaloo link) Happy to share! Email or call us! Take Aways