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What kind of task will help students synthesize their learning?

What kind of task will help students synthesize their learning?. Think about sometimes you have used comparison in your classroom. What are some lessons or situation where you asked your students to compare? Why did you use comparison in these situations?

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What kind of task will help students synthesize their learning?

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  1. What kind of task will help students synthesize their learning?

  2. Think about sometimes you haveused comparison in your classroom What are some lessons or situation where you asked your students to compare? Why did you use comparison in these situations? What are some of the strengths or some weaknesses when you used comparison as a strategy?

  3. 4 Goals of Compare & Contrast • Memory • Higher Order Thinking • Comprehension • Writing in the Content Areas

  4. Research clearly indicates the impact of each of these on student learning: Category: Percentile Gain: Identifying Similarities & Differences 45 Summarizing & Notetaking 34 Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition 29 Homework & Practice 28 Non-Linguistic Representation 27 Cooperative Learning 27 Setting Objectives & Providing Feedback 23 Generating & Testing Hypotheses 23 Questions, Cues, and Advance Organizers22

  5. The Four Phases of a Thoughtful Compare & Contrast Lesson • Describe • Compare • Conclude • Apply

  6. Description What is the purpose What are the sources? How will I help students identify criteria?

  7. Comparison What visual organizer will I use to help students compare?

  8. Conclusion What discussion questions will I use to develop students thinking? Are the concepts more alike or different? • What causes the differences and what are these effects? What can you generalize from the similarities?

  9. Phase IV: Application (Synthesis) • Identify other examples of each item. • Create a product or complete a task that applies new learning.

  10. Similarities and Differences 4 Types of Strategies Compare & Contrast Decision Making Classification Metaphor

  11. Phase I: Description • Select the items to compare. • Identify the criteria or characteristics that would focus examination of the items. • Describe each item separately. On one hand there is… and on the other hand there is… criteria

  12. Phase II: Comparison • Select a graphic organizer. • Identify similarities and differences. Y

  13. Phase III: Conclusion • Ask questions such as: Are the items more similar or more different? What might account for the differences? What might account for the simililarities? What new ideas, conclusions or generalizations can you now make?

  14. Principles of Comparison • Know the content • Give thoughts a shape • One, two, three stretch • Make it real

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