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Adding to Our Toolkits

High Impact Strategies Training

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Mulino Elementary

November 2020

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  • Learn or brush up on high impact teaching strategies

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  • Identify the crucial link between student need and strategy selection

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  • Prepare to practice implementing new strategies

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  • 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:

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  • 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

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Student learning is the ultimate test of classroom strategies!

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Strategies to be Discussed Today

Observation Charts & Color Coding

Activating our schema quick write:

What do you already know about these two strategies?

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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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Opportunity to gauge pre-requisite skills

Assessment opportunity

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Observation Charts

In CDL…

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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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An Example...

Assessing schema & building background prior to a read aloud

    • Gorillas are Wild Animals
    • Zoo Life
    • Connection to Humans
    • Circus Life

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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!

When 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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Other Suggestions for Use

  • Foundational Skills
  • Fluency
  • Chunking Information
  • Anchor Charts
  • Categorizing
  • Sequencing Information
  • Graphs

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Share Out!

When would you use this strategy?

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Next Steps...

  • Look at your upcoming unit map, consider adding each strategy, if the strategy fits.

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  • Look back at your previous unit maps, where do you wish you would have used the strategy? Leave a note for your future self!

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Thank You

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