Here is the latest blog post from Keys to Literacy, on teaching Patterns of Organization or Text Structures to help students learn to read non-narrative non-fiction.
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Thursday, November 16, 2017
New Strategy for Teaching Non-Fiction
Check out this short video from Teaching Channel about Teaching Non-Fiction –
a brilliant strategy using comic book templates to help students identify text structures and attributes of non-fiction in a graphic way.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
How to Get Students to Actually Read a Teacher’s Essay Comments
In this Cult of Pedagogy article, high-school teacher Kristy Louden says it was incredibly disheartening when students looked at the grade on papers she’d carefully annotated and either tossed their paper away or consigned it to the depths of a backpack. “Wow, glad I put so much time into that assignment,” was Louden’s sotto voce reaction. “Not only did I feel like I had wasted my time; I felt like they just didn’t care. And then the snowball of thoughts would start: How will they survive if they don’t care about feedback? What’s going to happen in college? Or when they get jobs?” She confesses that this often led her to put off reading students’ papers for days at a time.
After nine years of suffering through this unproductive dynamic, Louden stumbled upon a process that has worked remarkably well for her.
Monday, November 13, 2017
Student Self-Assessment
An article from Mind/Shift called
How to Build Self-Assessment Into Jampacked High School Classes
highlighting 3 great new strategies:
"Helping students learn to evaluate their own work is a crucial skill that taps into their metacognitive abilities."
How to Build Self-Assessment Into Jampacked High School Classes
highlighting 3 great new strategies:
- Monthly Student E-mail to Parents
- Writing Feedback using Anchor Papers and Kaizena, a Google tool
- Collaborative Reading using Perusall, an app
"Helping students learn to evaluate their own work is a crucial skill that taps into their metacognitive abilities."
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Educator Goals
Educator Goals
Click on the link above to see your colleagues' goals for the year. If you see a goal that you think you can help a colleague reach through your support or materials or consultation, please let them know that you can help! This is called Professional Collaboration, which is under the Professional Culture standard on the Educator Rubric. And it's good practice!
Click on the link above to see your colleagues' goals for the year. If you see a goal that you think you can help a colleague reach through your support or materials or consultation, please let them know that you can help! This is called Professional Collaboration, which is under the Professional Culture standard on the Educator Rubric. And it's good practice!
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