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Know WHAT We Teach

Know WHAT We Teach. Know WHO We Teach. “Our best understanding of how people learn is that they begin with past knowledge, understanding, and skill and extend those to new levels of complexity or sophistication. Image from: creative commons (public domain).

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Know WHAT We Teach

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  1. Know WHAT We Teach

  2. Know WHO We Teach

  3. “Our best understanding of how people learn is that they begin with past knowledge, understanding, and skill and extend those to new levels of complexity or sophistication. Image from: creative commons (public domain)

  4. Further, we learn best when the work we do is a little too hard for us. Image from: Creative Commons

  5. What that means is that we have a sense of what the task calls for and the gaps in our capacity to do what it asks of us. Image from: Creative Commons

  6. When these gaps are not present (in other words, when we can do a task effortlessly) we do not learn because we do not stretch what we already know. Image from: www.flickr.com/photos/medilldc/5489375111/

  7. Similarly, when the gaps are too great, we cannot span them and do not learn. Image From: www.flickr.com/photos/cayusa/

  8. Learning takes place when we have to stretch a manageable amount and do so. photo by LinaMenazzi on Flickr

  9. Readiness-based differentiation attempts to design student work at varied levels of challenge so that each student has to stretch a manageable amount and is supported in doing so.” Image from: www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/1142207245/ From: Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Gide for Differentiating Curriculum by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Carolyn Cunningham Eidson

  10. Knowing STRATEGIES To Teach

  11. Bloom’s Taxonomy Why find it and dust it off?

  12. Tiered Assignments • Don’t try to reinvent the wheel • Get together and pool your thoughts and ideas • Talk to teachers above and below your grade level • NOT EVERYTHING needs to be tiered!

  13. Cubing

  14. Compacting

  15. Independent Study

  16. Flexible Grouping • (insert my example of math chart) • Anchor activities (choice board)

  17. Things to consider essential content respectful, challenging work give the opportunity to self-select tasks

  18. Remember…

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