Writing and Thinking Through the Student User's Guide Assignment. Note: Ashley Hutchinson co-wrote this post with social studies teacher Stephanie Noles and instructional coach Mike Flinchbaugh, both of whom are her colleagues at J.H.
Rose High School in Greenville, North Carolina. Stephanie was having one of those days when everything she thought she knew about working with young adults seemed miscalibrated -- when tempers flared without cause and student motivation disappeared despite her careful planning. That was the day we decided our students should come with written instructions. Although a bit odd, the assignment we created is relatively simple: write a user's guide that explains to your users -- classmates and teachers -- how to work with you. In short, the task requires students to make decisions about style, structure and content (as required by the CCSS) in order to affect an audience toward a specific purpose: work well with me. Writing and Thinking Through the Student User's Guide Assignment.
Free Printable Graphic Organizers - Freeology. Accidentally Creating a Digital Writing Workshop. As a classroom teacher, it was never my intention to integrate technology into all facets of my instruction.
I knew that I would be encouraged to use such digital devices in my practice, but I hesitated to introduce a tool simply because it was flashy. After all, I thought of my traditional lessons as being flashy enough. I didn't need a device to amp up my creative curriculum. Tech Finds Its Way Over time, I slowly began utilizing various tools -- both digital and not -- in my classroom. As years progressed and my comfort level with teaching became more secure, I started taking more risks and trying new ideas. The NaNoWriMo Project: The Birth of Student Novelists. (Updated 11/2013) My 8th-graders do their best writing when it is part of a project that is meaningful to them and will be published in some way when they are finished.
So over the years, my students have written and illustrated children's books for schools in Uganda, published magazines on topics of their choice, blogged poems from their autobiographies, and showcased their best work in online portfolios. But I have never seen students write with as much enthusiasm as they did last November when all 91 of my 8th-graders participated in the Young Writers Program of National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. The Giver Quartet.
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Consider and trace the various metaphors of weaving throughout the novel. Look, for example, at the different usages of clothing, cloth, and cotton. 2. Examine the relationship of music to memory and of music to a sense of freedom, or lack of freedom. A Step-by-Step Guide to the Best Projects. Manor New Technology High School in Manor, Texas, is a 100 percent project-based learning school.
They are part of the New Tech Network of schools and their approach has yielded remarkable results, including a 98 percent graduation rate, with all of their graduates accepted to college. The success of their PBL approach is largely attributable to the fact that their process is designed to stimulate student inquiry. Additionally, their process can be applied to any project in any subject, which means there is a consistent approach across grades and subjects at Manor. We followed a sophomore world studies class through a three-week project called Controlling Factors, created by teaching partners Mary Mobley (English) and Michael Chambers (world history).
They designed a project that capitalized on the wild popularity among their students of the best-selling novel The Hunger Games. Microsoft Word - 5E Lesson PLan Invitation to the Game.doc - 5ELessonPLanInvitationtotheGame.pdf. Common core lesson plans for the giver. Training Teachers to Teach Critical Thinking. How KIPP educators instruct their colleagues to enhance their classroom practice.
KIPP King Collegiate High School principal Jason Singer trains his teachers to lead Socratic discussions (above); Katie Kirkpatrick (right), dean of instruction, developed a step-by-step framework -- described below -- for teaching students basic critical-thinking skills. Credit: Zachary Fink Thinking critically is one thing, but being able to teach it can be quite another. Katie Kirkpatrick, dean of instruction at KIPP King Collegiate High School, developed the school's Speech & Composition class, a requirement for all students. In the class, students learn basic critical-thinking skills. Define what critical thinking in the classroom is.
It's an approach to teaching that allows students to make sense of the content. How is your training session structured?
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