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What is Academic Rigor?. Rigor is the goal of helping students develop the capacity to understand content that is complex, ambiguous, provocative, and personally or emotionally challenging. Taking rigorous courses open the doors!. Source: Teaching What Matters Most; Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement by Strong, Silver, and Perini, ASCD, 2001.
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1. THINKING TOOLS: Differentiating the Content Based on training by: S. Kaplan, USC, 2008
2. What is Academic Rigor? Rigor is the goal of helping students develop the capacity to understand content that is complex, ambiguous, provocative, and personally or emotionally challenging.
Taking rigorous courses open the doors!
3. Objectives: Provide an introduction to the academic language thinking tools of Depth & Complexity and Content Imperatives.
Provide time to understand and practice application of Tools to your content in order to increase the level of inquiry in the classroom.
4. Agenda Welcome/Overview
Introduction- Theory
Introduction to Depth & Complexity and Content Imperatives
Differentiated Rotations
Quick share/Reflection/Closing
5. Depth and Complexity Thinking Tools Recognizes individual diversity among learners
Teaches toward highest level of knowing
Builds expertise All thinking tools integrated into lesson design and student products add depth and complexity to your overall objective. Thinking tools are designed to help students acquire the ability to think about content in an increasingly sophisticated manner.
All thinking tools integrated into lesson design and student products add depth and complexity to your overall objective. Thinking tools are designed to help students acquire the ability to think about content in an increasingly sophisticated manner.
6. Depth and Complexity Thinking Tools Strengthens critical thinking skills
Makes something abstract more concrete
Allows students to jump into the content and make sense of it
Builds in inquiry and academic language
7. How do you know if someone is an expert?
8. Single Thinking Tools One at a time
Depth
To dig deeper
Complexity
Greater breadth of understanding
9. Single Thinking Tool To understand RULES, you can study the patterns, details, and ethics One part of a whole
This is a way of uncovering
Promotes great conversationsOne part of a whole
This is a way of uncovering
Promotes great conversations
10. THINKING PAIRS Two thinking tools together joined with the word AND
What are the details AND trends of the Revolutionary War?
2 Thinking Tools = equation of knowing
Changes the intellectual demand
The intellectual work is rigorous
11. How do we know if students know it? A good answer must include:
Define what they are talking about
Give another example
Cite or reference what stimulated their ideas (evidence) We want to create intellectuals
Not to just give back the right answer
Not to just pass the CAHSEEWe want to create intellectuals
Not to just give back the right answer
Not to just pass the CAHSEE
12. Allow individuals to move on Students get tired of learning the same way using the same thinking.
It is like staying on the same land without moving or cultivating it.
Develop intellectualism
Not just to get the right answers
Nurture beyond where they currently are The children are not the inhibitors of this thinking. Teachers need to encourage it. Dont allow students to get stuck on what you know. You must allow the students to transcend it.
Not just to pass the CAHSEEThe children are not the inhibitors of this thinking. Teachers need to encourage it. Dont allow students to get stuck on what you know. You must allow the students to transcend it.
Not just to pass the CAHSEE
13. Research says
(GRR) Teacher directed
To
Student Centered
To
Independent Thinkers
14. At some point during the lesson
Teacher dominate
Ladies and gentlemen, today we are going to look for
Student dominate
Ladies and gentlemen, what and how are you going to look for
?
15. Creating Independent Thinkers You can do this by using these strategies:
Create inquiry to get the information
Create a task defining what to do
Do Independent Research
16. Allow students to be independent thinkers of the task by increasing responsibility Here are the details in the Revolutionary War
I want you to find the details in the Revolutionary War.
Investigate and research the significant details in the Revolutionary War.
17. Moral Imperative Educators need to go beyond their own level of thinking.
Educators need to transcend their own thinking because they need to open the doors into a students mind. It maybe the key to their success.
18. Students need to know: The flexibility of the language of depth and complexity
Patterns
This is a prerequisite to go further into the scope and sequence of the thinking tools. Students need to know all the synomams of the thinking prompts so they can be used instead of the prompts if needed. Depending on content, curriculum, and instruction- be flexibleStudents need to know all the synomams of the thinking prompts so they can be used instead of the prompts if needed. Depending on content, curriculum, and instruction- be flexible
19. Do you know the icons? Draw the appropriate icon next to the definition on the chart.
Compare your answers with your neighbor.
Start brainstorming ways you can bring depth and complexity into your classroom instruction and discussion.
20. Details
21. Unanswered Questions
22. Language of the Discipline
23. Patterns
24. Big Idea
25. Multiple Perspectives
26. Ethics
27. Trends
28. Rules
29. Across the Disciplines
30. Change Over Time
31. Contribution
32. Origin
33. Parallel
34. Paradox
35. Convergence
36. How can I integrate the thinking tools into Cornell notes? Teacher generates questions and student matches appropriate thinking tool and answer.
Teacher chooses thinking tool and student generates question and answer.
Student generates question, identifies thinking tool, and answers question.
37. Other ideas for Cornells & Thinking Tools
Use TE to help write high level questions.
Create iconic statements (combination of thinking tools).
Differentiate Cornells to fit the needs of your students.
Write summary/reflection prompts using thinking tools.
Combine Costas (and/or the Keys) with thinking tools.
Connect Thinking Tools to Thinking Maps ?.
Layer Thinking Tools with Classics, Think Like a Disciplinarian, Current Events, Technology, and Metacognition.
38. Reflection Why would this be important to you?
Why would this be important to a school?
Why would this be important to the world?