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Extra. Extra. Read All About it !. Christina D’Amelio DAMELIOC@wpunj.edu. Workshop Goals!. Create open-ended questions using Bloom’s Taxonomy. Increase students’ comprehension skills. Engagement strategy The Gallery Walk WikiSpace. What are our students reading?.

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  1. Extra. Extra. Read All About it ! Christina D’Amelio DAMELIOC@wpunj.edu

  2. Workshop Goals! Create open-ended questions using Bloom’s Taxonomy. Increase students’ comprehension skills. Engagement strategy The Gallery Walk WikiSpace

  3. What are our students reading?

  4. What are we asking them to read?

  5. What can we do? • Supplement materials to increase engagement !! • Exploring issues in the news will strengthen reading and critical thinking skills.

  6. Newspapers or online articles! • Review the newspapers or use online sources and choose articles that would appeal to your students! • Local newspaper (Wayne Today) • NJ.com

  7. My Examples 

  8. Wayne Football Players “Doblin: Students suit up while reason gets benched.” “Officials criticize decision to let accused students play playoff games.” “Wayne Hills football players involved in off-school-grounds fight suspended for state playoff game.”

  9. Teen topics!! • “Alcohol: Drinking and Driving: Rob's story.” • “Texting May Be Taking a Toll.”

  10. Please read  “Doblin: Students suit up while reason gets benched.” -Reflect on the article

  11. Creating questions to increase and assess student comprehension! Multiple choice True and false Open-ended questions

  12. How to construct a question? • Open-ended questions traditionally have an introductory statement. • Followed by a two part question, indicated by bullets, that address different aspects of the story or article. • The second part of the question, indicated by the second bullet, addresses the higher levels of the taxonomy. (Comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation)

  13. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy

  14. Sample question According to article, the only connection between the Penn State sexual abuse scandal and the Wayne Hills High School students being arrested for aggravated assault is football and athletics. However, many parents and students do not agree. (statement) • Identify(question cue) two other possible connections between the Wayne Hills and Penn State incidents.

  15. Any questions?

  16. Characteristics of Effective Lessons • Collaborative learning/Group work • Active engagement • Independent learning/problem-solving • Challenging students/setting high expectations • Relating subject to students’ interests/prior knowledge • Respect for students’ education/report • Mixing joy and structure • Student-centered

  17. Successful Teaching Strategies • Gallery Walk • Concept Sketches • Just-in-time Teaching • Case Studies • Role Playing • Jigsaw Technique • Effective discussion/Random “call-on” • Debates • Using non-verbals to communicate

  18. Gallery Walk • Various, yet related, prompts are set up at stations around the room and students rotate to each station to post and share responses.

  19. Gallery Walk • Allows students to work together in small groups to share ideas and respond to meaningful questions, scenarios, and/or texts. • Strategy is intended for students to share the products of their learning. Students gain valuable skills in critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and public speaking.

  20. Gallery Walk • Procedure: • Teacher posts questions, scenarios, etc. at different stations around the room. Posts should be different yet related. • Students form groups – one group per station. • Within a specified period of time (usually 3-4 minutes) student groups respond to the question or prompt on a poster or large piece of paperposted on the wall or table. • After the time has elapsed, students rotate to next station. Students read and discuss the previous group’s response and add content of their own. • Repeat this process until students are back at their original poster. Students read, discuss, and summarize all responses on their original poster. • Each group reports back to the whole class.

  21. Gallery Walk • Gallery Walk is an effective teaching strategy because it incorporates the following important teaching strategies: • Collaborative learning/group work • Student engagement • Challenging students (designing questions using Bloom’s taxonomy) • Mixing joy and structure • Relating to students’ interest (material is about a situation currently taking place in our district)

  22. Your Turn To Try It!

  23. Online Stop Watch http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/

  24. Gallery Walk Concluded • Gallery Walk is a fun, active, and challenging strategy intended for students to share the products of their learning. • Gallery Walk is an effective teaching technique because it is: • Highly motivating and engaging • Encourages collaboration • Challenges students • Mixes joy and structure

  25. Gallery Walk Across the Curriculum • English/Language Arts: • Editing/Revising • Analysis • Predictions • Discussing literary devices • Mathematics • Solving problems • Plotting data on graph • Discussing strategies • Science • Solving problems • Evaluating solutions • Predicting outcomes • Social Studies • Analyzing events • Relating past events to current times • Compare and contrast • Pros and cons

  26. Pilot Lesson Outcomes • Too large • Summarize posters • Questions were given out ahead a time • No spontaneous responses

  27. What is a wiki?How can it be used in your classroom? A wiki is a space on the Web where you can share work and ideas, pictures and links, videos and media — and anything else you can think of. Wikispaces is special because we give you a visual editor and a bunch of other tools to make sharing all kinds of content as easy for students as it is for their teachers. http://www.wikispaces.com/content/teacher

  28. A wiki is a website that allows users to collaboratively create and edit web pages using a web browser. This means once you create a wiki, your students can go on and add things to your page. Then you can go on and comment, remove, etc. http://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki

  29. For example you can create a wiki for your classroom and post each subject link for your students to view. Each link can contain a question of the day, information, information for parents, websites, etc. Students can go on and answer questions that you have posted, view websites, read additional information about the given topic. http://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki

  30. Teachers can create student accounts or have students create their own. Teachers have to do this in order for the students to edit the web pages. A teachers can set guidelines such as having a student post their name after they add a comment. When a student responds to a discussion question their name automatically appears. http://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki

  31. Educator concerns: What if a student/parent adds something inappropriate? Teachers can lock parts of their wiki where students/parents can not edit the page. Teachers can pass out a rules sheet of a wiki page and have parents and students sign off on it. Teachers will be able to monitor students adding and removing information on the page to prevent confusion. http://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki

  32. How can you get a wiki ? To sign up for a wiki is simple! Just go to www.wikispaces.com

  33. Using it in your classroom! Class web page Information page for parents/students Classroom discussion board Virtual Field trips http://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki

  34. Sources Tewksbury, B. J. and Macdonald, Heather, R. (2005). Designing Effective and Innovative Courses. Retrieved on November 18, 2011 from http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/coursedesign/tutorial/strategies.html. Richards, J. (2005). A Review of the Research Literature on Effective Instructional Strategies. Retrieved on November 18, 2011 from http://www.edvantia.org/pdta/pdf/Effective_Instructional_Strategies.pdf. Johnson, L.(2011) Top Ten Tips for Effective Teaching. Retrieved on November 18, 2011 from http://www.louannejohnson.com/blog.htm?post=776747 Tips and Tools for Teachers: The Gallery Walk. (2010). Retrieved on November 18, 2011 from http://www.cscope.us/docs/newsletters/1011/cscope_newsletter10-11_1stSixWeeks.pdf

  35. Killen, R. (2007). Effective Teaching Strategies. South Melbourne, Australia: Cengage Learning. Retrieved on November 18, 2011 from: https://www.cengagebrain.co.nz/shop/content/killen32773_0170132773_01.01_toc.pdf. Effective Instructional Strategies (2005). Retrieved on November 18, 2011 from http://www.districtadministration.com/article/effective- Instructional-strategies. Lemov, D. (2010, March 2). Head of the Class. The New York Time (New York, NY). Retrieved on November 18, 2011 fromhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/07/magazine/20100307-teacher-videos.html#/joy Francek, M. (2011). Gallery Walk. Retrieved on November 18, 2011 from http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/gallerywalk/ www.wikispaces.com http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-to-use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/ http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Wiki_in_a_K-12_classroom http://www.edzone.net/~mwestern/wiki.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_(software) http://mrsroncone.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Wiki

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