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A ScenarioTeacher A is going to teach his or her students the

importance of reading legends or alamat in their life as students and as Filipinos.

If you are Teacher A, what strategy would you use to achieve your desired goal for the lesson stated

above?

How will you know that they have learned what you have planned to teach them?

Fr. Aristotle C. Dy

Questions to Ponder

How can we check if our students are really thinking during our discussion?

What do we do to check if they are thinking well?

the challenge to make thinking visible

We learn best what we can see and hear. Thinking is an invisible action. We usually

just see the end result of it - if the student responds

correctly or not to our tests.

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the challenge to make thinking visible

What we are targeting here is one crucial part of learning - the process of thinking. We

have to make thinking visible so we can guide them as they

learn and think for themselves.

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the challenge to make thinking visible

when students thinks visibly, they learn to think about what they think

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VISIBLE THINKING works well when they become routines of students in

class.

routine - any procedure, process, or pattern of action

that is used repeatedly to manage and facilitate the

accomplishment of specific goals or tasks

a visible thinking routine

is goal oriented in that it targets specific types of thinking

gets used over and over again in the classroom consists of only a few steps is easy to learn and teach is easy to support when students are engaged in the

routine can be used across a variety of context can be used by the group or by the individual

visible thinking routines are categorized into four areas:

Understanding Truth

Fairness Creativity

SOME COMMON and FAVORITE VISIBLE THINKING ROUTINES

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Think Pair ShareA routine for active listening and explanation

Think Pair Share involves posing a question to students, asking them to take a few minutes of thinking time and then turning to a nearby student to share their thoughts.

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What Makes You Say That?Interpretation with justification routine

The routine involves the following questions:

1. What's going on?2. What do you see that makes you say that?

I Used to Think Now I ThinkA routine for reflecting how and why our thinking has

changed

Remind students of the topic you want them to consider. It could be the ideal itself fairness, truth, understanding, or creativity or it could be the unit you are studying.

Have students write a response using each of the sentence stems: I used to think... But now, I think...

HEADLINESA routine for capturing the essence

This routine draws on the idea of newspaper- type headlines as a vehicle for summing up and capturing the essence of an event, idea, concept, topic, etc. The routine asks one core question: 1. If you were to write a headline for this topic or issue right now that captured the most important aspect that should be remembered, what would that headline be? A second question involves probing how students' ideas of what is most important and central to the topic being explored have changed over time: 2. How has your headline changed based on today's discussion? How does it differ from what you would have said yesterday?

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Compass PointsA routine for examining propositions

1.E = Excited What excites you about this idea or proposition? Whats the upside?

2.W = Worrisome What do you find worrisome about this idea or proposition? Whats the downside?

3.N = Need to Know What else do you need to know or find out about this idea or proposition? What additional information would help you to evaluate things?

4.S = Stance or Suggestion for Moving Forward What is your current stance or opinion on the idea or proposition? How might you move forward in your evaluation of this idea or proposition?

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Claim Support QuestionA routine for exploring truth claims

1. Make a claim about --> the topic 2. Identify support for --> your claim 3. Ask a question related to your claim

Claim: An explanation or interpretation of some aspect of the topic. Support: Things you see, feel, and know that support your claim. Question: What's left hanging? What isn't explained? What new reasons does your claim raise?

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FUN with QR CODES in the Classroom

FUN with QR CODES in the Classroom

A Quick Response Code is a digital image that can be scanned without the beam of light needed to scan barcodes

at the supermarket.

"For more information scan this code."

When scanned, the QR code may show students texts, images, websites, link to videos to watch etc.

IDEAS: QR codes in the classroom1. Use it to show students hidden messages, i.e. questions,

clues, ideas or even instructions to a certain activity. 2. Use it to save time copying long links to websites to read or

videos to watch. 3. Use it to make announcements in the classroom. 4. Have students scan codes to find out correct answers to

their practice tests. 5. Make learning stations in the classroom with different QR

codes for different activities.

How to create and scan QR CodesDownload any QR code generator or scanner in the AppStore

or Google Play Store

Recommended:

QR Scanner QR Code Reader

QR Droid Code Scanner

Simulation: Class with Ed Tech Integration

Visible Thinking Routines + QR Codes

Sample Lesson on Characterization The Legend of the Pineapple

Think Pair Share

What are some of the familiar legends or alamat that you have read already?

Why do you think we have stories such as legends? What do we get or gain when we read

them?

Our Legend for Today: The Legend of the Pineapple

The legend says that a long time ago on a fruit plantation there was a pretty little girl called Pina, who lived with her hard working mother. Pina was a spoiled girl who got everything she wanted, and never did any chores, and just used to play all the time.

Every time Pina's mother asked her to do a chore, she started but stopped halfway and laid it aside for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came, instead she started to play, using excuses for not finish what she was asked to.

One day the mother was very sick, and could not do anything, so she asked Pina to cook some rice for her, but when Pina went to the kitchen, she couldn't find the utensils, at some point even stop looking, her mother then yelled at her: "I hope you grow a thousand eyes so you can find whatever I ask you to find!.

After a long time, the mother noticed that Pina never replied and the house was really silent, and she started to cry for her daughter, but only the neighbors were the ones that responded.

After some days passed by, Pina's mother asked everyone on the fruit plantation about her daughter, but no one knew where she was. One day while cleaning the backyard, the mother noticed a fruit of the size of a kid's head that sprung from the ground, and thought it was funny that this fruit had a thousand black eyes.

When she saw it a little bit closer, she that it was Pina, who was transformed for the curse she put on her that day. And so, to honor her memory, the mother decided to take the seeds of the fruit and planted them, and when there was a lot of this fruit, she gave them away to everyone.

The Thinking TriangleBase 1

Base 2Base 3

Each base contains QR codes which you need to scan.

Each QR code contains questions or instructions for the activity that you will do in each base.

The Thinking StarBase 1

Base 2Base 3

Each base contains QR codes which you need to scan.

Each QR code contains questions or instructions for the activity that you will do in each base.

Base 3Base 2

Base 1

CLASS DISCUSSION/ REPORTING

Base 1

Base 2Base 3

Each base contains QR codes which you need to scan.

Each QR code contains questions or instructions for the activity that you will do in each base.

Preparing for the Next Activity

needs to know more

suggestions to do better

excites meworries me

OPEN FORUM

Mixed Up: QR Codes and

Francis Jim Tuscano francisjimtuscano.wordpress.com @jimtuscano