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Adding to Our Toolkits

High Impact Strategies Training

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Oak Creek Elementary

February 16, 2023

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  • Learn or brush up on high impact teaching strategies
  • Identify the crucial link between student need and strategy selection
  • Prepare to practice implementing new strategies
  • Provide an opportunity for modeling, questions and answers

OBJECTIVES FOR THE DAY

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A Word of Caution

After this training, you should know the error in the following ideas:

  • There are only a few effective strategies
  • There are certain strategies that should be used in every lesson
  • These effective strategies will ALWAYS be effective
  • These effective strategies can ONLY be taught in-person

Student learning is the ultimate test of classroom strategies!

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Strategies to Be Discussed Today

Observation Charts and Color Coding

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Activating our schema quick write:

What do you already know about these strategies?

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Opportunity to gauge pre-requisite skills

Assessment opportunity

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Observation Charts

In partners, use the colored pencils to add to the charts

  • Look at the pictures
  • Discuss with a partner about what they have in common
  • Add your observations and thoughts to the poster

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Introduction to Shades of Meaning

  • Identify the connection between the pictures
  • Nuances between the pictures
  • Identify similarities/differences
  • Multiple words for similar concepts

L.5c Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty.

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Observation Charts

In Person…

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Key Points:

  • Multiple pictures on one page, leave room for kids to add to it
  • Students decide on question, comment, or prediction to write
  • Students sketch and write
  • What they write isn’t as important as what they say during the strategy

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Variations:

  • All students may sketch and write their question, comment, or prediction
  • Revisit after instruction for students to expand on their observations

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Observation Charts

Online…

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Key Points:

  • Use online media to create a shared “poster”

(Google docs, slides, Jamboard)

  • Multiple pictures on one page, leave room for kids to add to it
  • Students decide on question, comment, or prediction to write
  • Students add comments using the online tools

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Variations:

  • All students may sketch and write their question, comment, or prediction
  • Revisit after instruction for students to expand on their observations

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Observation Charts

Online…

Key Points:

  • Use online media to create a shared “poster”
  • (Google docs, slides, Jamboard)
  • Multiple pictures on one page, leave room for kids to add to it
  • Students decide on question, comment, or prediction to write
  • Students add comments using the online tools

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Variations:

  • All students may sketch and write their question, comment, or prediction
  • Revisit after instruction for students to expand on their observations

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Other Suggestions for Use

  • Introducing new concepts
  • Pre-assessment
  • Categorizing information
  • Seeing what students have learned (formative assessment)
  • Group work

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Share Out!

How would you use this strategy?

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Color Coding

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Examples

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Spot the Color Coding

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Spot the Color Coding

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Color Coded vs. Colorful

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Color Coding in Online Learning

  • Color code text
  • Use background color to group slides
  • Be aware of colorFUL vs. color coded
  • Select images carefully

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Other Suggestions for Use

  • Foundational skills
  • Fluency
  • Chunking information
  • Anchor charts
  • Categorizing
  • Sequencing information
  • Graphs

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Practice

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Share Out!

How would you use this strategy?

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Thank You

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