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Explore the principles and strategies of active learning to promote community, feedback, and reflection among students. Learn theories and techniques to enhance student participation and understanding of text structures.
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Welcome to Room11 KerrySanchez
Active learning is student-centeredand its goal is to meet the learning needs of all students. Students are not passive observers, but rather active participantsin the meaning makingprocess. What is active learning?
Active learning is engaging and inclusive for all students. It promotes community within the classroom and provides opportunity for feedback andreflection. Whyisactive learning important?
Behaviorismand Sociocultural Developmentcan be used in a classroom for management and teaching new concepts through active learning. Whattheories promote this growth?
1. LearnNAMES. • Determine a SHAREDGOAL. • Classroomexpectations. • Language of inclusivity. • Mistakes are where learningBEGINS. • Activities that BUILD community - activelearning. • Establish a shared history ever-growingcommunity. How do you build community?
Active LearningStrategies SocraticQuestionnaire Self-Assessment of Ways ofLearning Polar Opposites Pop Culture Make itPersonal Goal Ranking and Matching Whiteboard Capture Tournament Photo Homework Video Selfie Advice letter Word Journal Student Storytelling Problem RecognitionTasks Teacher-Designed Feedback Forms WritingFables Think-Pair-Share InventedDialogues Give One, Get One GroupExperts With a Creative Twist BalloonPop Things You Know Make it a Story Lecture Reaction Movie Application TV Commercial HumanTableau Build from Restricted Components Simulation Group Instructional Feedback Technique 80/20Rule Up toHalf Group Test/IndividualGrade Scrapbook selection LineDance Two Truths and a Lie Name TagTrio Speed Skating Answer Any Three Wheel in a Wheel CrosswordPuzzle Twenty Questions Who amI? Student-Generated TestQuestions RoleReversal Anonymous Peer Feedback Wisdom of Another Teacher and Student Closed Eyes Method Brainstormtree
Information TextStructures + How nonfiction textis organized + 5 types: compare & contrast, description, problem &solution, order & sequence, and cause & effect + Understanding structureenhances reading and writingskills
Lesson1 + CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.3: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in thetext. + Students will use prior knowledge of informational text structures to recall information to create examples ofthe different textstructures. + Lesson: + YouTubeVideo + Notes + Examples + Results: + Understood material well created short examples with partner
Lesson2 + CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.5: Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or moretexts. + Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of informational text structure by matching text structure with the correct description. + Lesson: + Review + Matchinggame + Results: + Partner activity -community building + Asking ‘why’ forcomprehension + Ms. Winter reported high scores on text structurequiz
Lesson3 + CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.5: Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or moretexts. + Students will be able to differentiate between different texts and key words to determine each text structure beingused. + Lesson: + Powerpoint example practice withwhiteboards + Explaining‘why?’ + CrosswordPuzzle + Results: + ‘Why’ =comprehension, + Whiteboardfeedback + Understood conceptwell
Lesson4 + CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.9: Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. + Students will be able to construct an example of each text structure from a given topic using text and onlineresources. + Lesson: + Review + Create own example withpartner + Results: + Loved being able tochoose + Examples were creative and followedstructures
Results + Studentswereengagedthroughoutlessons + Students did well on my summative assessment as well as the summative assessmentfrommycooperatingteacher + Studentswereabletobeactiveandcreative whichmadeitmeaningfultotheirlearning