Part ONE Page 1 Ch 5-9
Define student engagement and discuss its importance.
* Discuss the value of using thinking prompts
* Identify the attributes of effective thinking prompts
* Describe how thinking prompts can be used effectively
* Elaborate on why teachers should reflect on the effectiveness of their questioning
* Discuss the process of using questions effectively with students
* Explain the different purposes of stories in teaching and discuss the value of using stories when teaching.
* Define cooperative learning and explain when and why it should be used as an instructional strategy.
(You may decide to divide and conqueror do them all to learn as much as you can!
Did you notice any of these in the constructed responses? Which ones?
https://youtu.be/XeNSITakQBg
Step by step, Jim will walk you through The Impact Cycle, describing how to:
- Interact and dialogue with teachers as partners
- Guide teachers to identify emotionally compelling, measurable, and student-focused goals
- Identify teaching strategies that teachers can use to hit their goals
- Partner with teachers to ensure teachers have a deep understanding of teaching practices
- Adapt strategies to ensure teachers hit their goals
Then respond to this post for Part 1
Student engagement is very important to teachers. The willingness of students to be engaged in a classroom discussion is an intricate part for the teachers and students to be successful. For this to happen the teacher needs to catch their curiosity, or peek their interest.
I teach OSHA safety classes along with my construction classes. I was very difficult explaining what studs were or why scaffold safety was so important. I began using prompts in class. I found pictures of a wall framed up and then I could point to the picture and show them the stud. I have since built a scale model of a framed home and put it in my classroom so they can see and touch. For OSHA I us videos and picture so the student now knows what a scaffold section is and how to assemble the scaffold section. Pry to these thousands of questions, I realized I was not getting through to them.
One of my thinking prompts is about why there is a single bottom plate and a double top plate. “What is the purpose in having a double top vs. a single bottom?”, “Why not a single in both locations”, or “A double in both locations”. It’s amazing the answers I hear, but I know they are engaged and thinking.
Effective questions are very important if you want the students to be engaged. Closed questions are very simple, it’s usually a yes or no question or a direct answer, whereas open question there are many possibilities or leads to other questions.
I know that if I can get the students to relate to a story, movie, or even a game, they now understand what I am talking about. They relate to the stories differently; some saw the story going one way while others saw it going another way. Cooperative learning is putting students into small groups. This will cause students see other points of views, or other perspectives. It’s kind of like comedians in a small group and playing off of each other to make things funnier.
Part 2 page two Page 2
Post your constructed response based on your 1st district issue. What is an instructional issue you see based on data you have from your district? The response should be anywhere from 100 to 250 words. Utilize learning from High Impact Planning chapters you’re reading as you construct your response.
Did you first read about constructed responses? Go back and do so, if you haven’t.
Write this constructed response based on the instructional issue you see from your data. How will you improve teacher performance and student achievement based on a problem of practice from your data?
I am uploading the Campus Plan. You may choose and instructional issue to write about. Most of this document is just instructions and reading. Please read all materials.
Experiment: Read through the Constructed Response Material from the Practice Exam 268
Read through this but you will be give more information .
Constructed-Response Questions – Just read to understand constructed responses.
The test includes four constructed-response questions. Unlike the selected-response
questions, the constructed-response questions require candidates to demonstrate
their integrated knowledge in an area by providing in-depth written responses.
Constructed-response questions are included on the assessment because this item
type can assess knowledge and skills too complex to be measured effectively with
selected-response questions. To effectively assess some content, candidates need
to be able to do more than discriminate between correct and incorrect statements.
When given a relevant and contextually rich scenario, constructed-response
questions allow candidates to provide a well-reasoned written response that
includes detailed and logical steps to take to address an educational leadership
situation and provide a strong justification or rationale for the actions.