518+Agenda+-+1.26.15


 * Learning Goals:**
 * **I can teach vocabulary using the Kinsella Routine**

8:00 - 8:20 - Welcome & Discuss //Holler//
 * Notetaker: Alicia
 * Text Talk for Wed: Mona & Jordan

8:20 - 8:50 - Text Talk, Zwiers Chapter 5

8:50 - 10:50 - Academic Language (continued) and teaching demos
 * EdTPA AL quick practice
 * [[file:AL planning template.docx]]
 * Top Ten Strategies http://gonzagateach.wikispaces.com/Academic+Language+Top+Ten+Strategies
 * Teaching Demos


 * Notes EDTE 518 1/26**

Full Class Discussion Strategies
 * MA: incorporating activities into discussion, such as having a conversation circle.
 * PC: Use open-ended questions
 * TJ: Open-ended questions in conversation circles where there is more opportunity for one-on-one attention.
 * JJ: Set up students to succeed in a discussion of the text, anticipated topics.
 * MT: Set up rules for discussion and ways to respond, framework for discussion
 * PC: Teaching the academic language of responding/disagreeing. Also simulations that could lead to discussions, build on big ideas from the text.
 * GM: Come with a direction for the discussion, but still use open-ended questions. Script it and have direction, and preset questions to elicit more thorough responses. Be willing to leave the script if the students take off with the discussion.
 * KR: Limit the freedom that students have in discussing.
 * JJ: Provide clarification and prompt responses from other students.
 * GM: Validate student comments, tether back to discussion if needed. Find merit in responses and their contribution to the conversation.
 * Follow-up, restate, push thinking further, don’t just praise.
 * PC: It’s important in high school to praise responses that make the discussion a logically consistent argument. Validate good, logical thinking.
 * Elevate discussion where logical thinking is supported.

How much of what we do in discussions and classroom practices is contrived? How much does the success of a discussion depend on the interest level in the material? What really gets failing students who are not "playing school" to engage?

Vocabulary lessons: "mystery," "reformation," "lipid," "polyomino," "precedent." Still need to go: Mona, TJ, & Alicia
 * Housekeeping:**
 * **See main calendar page**