Prepared for the HCPS K – 2 Collaborative Learning Team Members of
HENRY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS by Dan Mulligan, Ed. D., flexiblecreativity.com, (twitter: @drdanmulligan)
August 2015
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE SECOND QUESTION:
RELATIONSHIPS + RIGOR + RELEVANCE =
RESULTSEssential
VocabularyEssential
Skills
EssentialKnowledge
LEARNING TARGET
HIGH EXPECTATIONS“Sometimes the questions are complex but the answers are simple.”
~Dr. Seuss
Think Pad is a resource designed to:• provide evidence of
understanding and participation during student-to student dialogue
• facilitate student reflection on their thinking
1. Create an Environment for Learning– Helping students know what is expected of them, providing
students with opportunities for regular feedback on progress, assuring students they are capable of learning content and skills
2. Helping Students Develop Understanding– Integrating prior knowledge with new knowledge– Procedural knowledge: constructing a model of the steps
required of the process and practicing its variations; using the process or skill fluently or without any conscious thought
3. Helping Students Extend and Apply Knowledge– Moving beyond ‘right answer’ learning to an expanded
understanding and use of concepts and skills in real-world contexts.
Framework for Instructional Planning McREL, 2012
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4 – second partner
Find a friend from another schools and grade-level. Say ‘hello’.
Find 2 comfortable seats and relax.*Please bring your handout and a pen(cil)!
Work collaboratively (e.g., construct viable arguments, critique, agree) to identify key
words that capture the essential elements of
strategies to assist all students to be
successful used last year with fidelity.
Enjoy working with your new best friend.
Last year’s successful learning strategiesCREATING AN
ENVIRONMENT FOR LEARNING
SETTING OBJECTIVES AND
PROVIDING FEEDBACK
Unpacking the Standard
1. Create an Environment for Learning– Helping students know what is expected of them, providing
students with opportunities for regular feedback on progress, assuring students they are capable of learning content and skills
2. Helping Students Develop Understanding– Integrating prior knowledge with new knowledge– Procedural knowledge: constructing a model of the steps
required of the process and practicing its variations; using the process or skill fluently or without any conscious thought
3. Helping Students Extend and Apply Knowledge– Moving beyond ‘right answer’ learning to an expanded
understanding and use of concepts and skills in real-world contexts.
Framework for
Instructional Planning McREL, 2012
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HELPING STUDENTS DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING
Assessing for Conceptual Understanding (These are…These are not)
Suggestion from Research:
Open (begin) with the rigor…
…but rather than rigor…scaffold the experience for students to foster rigor with nurturing…
If you want a learner to
truly understand
and own essential
knowledge, expand your exploration
from ‘what it is’ to also ‘what it is
NOT’.
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Research on Imagery as Elaboration
637 percentile pts. higher
than… …students who kept repeating definitions.
421 percentile pts. higher
than… …students who were using the terms in a sentence.
Students who used imagery to learn vocabulary, on average, performed
# of studies
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200 POINTS
Elvis
Organizing Theme:
Things someone would say…
Bill Clinton
MadonnaMickey Mouse
Aretha Franklin
Mohammad Ali
Famous Americans of the 20th
Century
THROWBACK
TUESDAY!
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Matter
Line of Symmetry
Third from Right
Pattern
Solid Shapes
Solid
Rotation
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Rigor
Organizing Theme:
Teaching/Learning
Strategies
Relevance
CollaborationCritical Thinking
Formative Assessment
Relationships
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Ways to make .25
Grade 4Math
Things that are parallel
perimeter
Types of graphs
area
Types of angles
Advanced Organizers
Use Visuals
Advanced organizers help students organize the information and retain 5 times more of the information.
Motor MouthThings associated with
SCHOOL
BooksReport Cards
TeachersSchool BusCafeteriaPencilsErasers
Things associated with
PLANTS
RootsStems
PhotosynthesisFlowersLeavesWaterSeeds
Things associated with
MATTER
SolidLiquidGas
MixturesSolutions
AtomsMolecules
Good Instruction(Keep it Simple…Keep it Real)
“We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already
know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it
must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we
haven’t so far.” ~Ron Edmonds
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How can you use the Where do I belong? structure to support your
role as teacher/administrator?
A = bh
Opposite sides equal
1 right angle
Right Triangle
4 sides
3 sides
4 right angles
A = ½ bhRectangle
One side is the longest
Thank you for your commitment to children!
"It's your attitude, not just your aptitude that determines your ultimate altitude."
--Zig Ziglar
Dan