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John Ross

For the Sake of Argument | American Federation of Teachers - 0 views

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LanguageArts Writing PBL AuthenticIntellectualWork

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  • NWP’s approach to argument writing starts with having students understand multiple points of view that go beyond pros and cons and are based on multiple pieces of evidence, which ultimately enables students to take responsible civic action.
  • Participating in a conversation is central to our understanding of argument. Before students develop a solid claim for an argument, they need to get a good sense of what the range of credible voices are saying and what a variety of positions are around the topic. Students have to first distinguish between credible and unreliable sources, and then identify the range of legitimate opinions on a single issue. This initial move counters the argument culture by seeking understanding before taking a stand.
  • Many schools, especially in high-poverty areas, are accustomed to professional development providers that materialize for a short period of time, promise success, and then disappear. The NWP, however, relies on well-established local Writing Projects to provide professional development, believing that local teachers are the best teachers of other local teachers. This relationship helps break down resistance to change.
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  • The C3WP framework rests on what are known as “cycles of instruction” that integrate the program’s three essential components: instructional resources for teaching argument writing, formative assessment tools, and intensive professional development—all developed by teachers for teachers.
  • Each C3WP instructional resource describes a four- to six-day sequence of instructional activities that focuses on developing a small number of argument skills (e.g., developing a claim, ranking evidence, coming to terms with opposing viewpoints). Ideally, teachers will teach at least four of these resources each year to help students gradually improve their ability to write evidence-based arguments
  • 1. Focus on a specific set of skills or practices in argument writing that build over the course of an academic year.
  • rather than attempting to teach everything about argument in a single unit
  • 2. Provide text sets that represent multiple perspectives on a topic, beyond pro and con.
  • A text set typically:Grows in complexity from easily accessible texts to more difficult;Takes into account various positions, perspectives, or angles on a topic;Provides a range of accessible reading levels;Includes multiple genres (e.g., video, image, written text, infographic, data, interview); andConsists of multiple text types, including both informational and argumentative.
  • 3. Describe iterative reading and writing practices that build knowledge about a topic.
  • 4. Support the recursive development of claims that emerge and evolve through reading and writing.
  • 5. Help intentionally organize and structure students’ writing to advance their arguments.
  • there is no single “right” way to organize and use evidence in an op-ed.
  • 6. Embed formative assessment opportunities in classroom practice to identify areas of strength and inform next steps for teaching and learning.
  • C3WP engages teachers in collaboratively assessing students’ written arguments to understand what students can already do and what they need to learn next.
  • Most participating schools and districts, including those in the original evaluation, are underresourced, are under pressure to raise test scores, and often experience high teacher turnover.
  • John Ross on 27 Jun 19
     
    Being used in Norton City, one of the VA4LIN divisions.
Debra Roethke

SMMRY - Summarize articles, text, websites, essays and documents - 0 views

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  • Debra Roethke on 03 Aug 18
     
    copy and paste text into a box and SMMRY summarizes it.
lathamkendall

CommonLit | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Mate... - 3 views

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  • Gaynell Lyman on 05 Dec 16
     
    This site offers various texts with both multiple choice questions and open-ended questions. You can select text by lexile level and by genre, theme, objectives. It's free and easy to navigate.
Gaynell Lyman

Number Rack, by The Math Learning Center on the App Store - 1 views

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number math ipad_apps free number_sense game elementary

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  • Gaynell Lyman on 05 May 16
     
    Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children's number sense. The movable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. This virtual version of the manipulative is an open-ended educational tool, ideal for elementary classrooms and other learning environments that use iPod Touches, iPhones, or iPads. Display 1 to 5 rows of beads, 10 beads per row. On the iPad, display up to 10 rows. Hide beads with the resizable shade, which allows teachers or learners to model subtraction or difference problems. Reverse the colors of rows 6 to 10 to distinguish (or not) groupings of 25 beads. Use the drawing tools to annotate work and show understanding Write equations and expressions with the text tool.
Gaynell Lyman

iTooch Elementary School App on the App Store - 1 views

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  • Gaynell Lyman on 05 May 16
     
    With more than 25,000 exercises, iTooch Elementary is a new and fun way of practicing and learning Math, Language Arts and Science for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th Graders. ‣ Speech synthesis to help young users in reading and text comprehension ‣ Multi-player management ‣ Font size adjustment to suit everyone's needs ‣ An embedded calculator
Gaynell Lyman

High Expectations: What to Look For | ASCD Inservice - 0 views

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  • Gaynell Lyman on 09 Jul 19
     
    " I often hear educators talking about high expectations and rigor. These are buzzwords that everyone agrees are an important part of education. However, as I participate in walkthroughs with principals and debrief what we are seeing, I'm finding that school leaders often struggle to know what to actually look for. They can identify a rigorous text and determine whether expectations around scholar product are "high" or "low," but seem to miss opportunities to identify key cultural indicators of the presence or absence of high expectations."
John Ross

Family Communication Projects Grades 6-12 | FamilyBookform - 0 views

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NewLiteracies LanguageArts DigitalStorytelling

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  • John Ross on 16 Apr 20
     
    Collaborate to create books online. Free for teachers. Students can interview parents or share text and images to their own "chapter" within a larger class book.
John Ross

Google Earth comes to the classroom with new educational tours and lesson plans | TechC... - 3 views

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SocialStudies Science GoogleEarth

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  • John Ross on 27 Jun 17
     
    "The new version of Google Earth introduced a feature called Voyager, offering a showcase of guided tours from scientists, nonprofits, and other storytellers and organizations. The tours let you explore a region or multiple locales, through the use of photos, 360-degree videos, and Google Maps Street View, along with text. At launch, there were tours from groups like BBC Earth, Jane Goodall, Sesame Street, and NASA available. Google today announced it's expanding its lineup of tours to include 10 new stories, specifically designed for educational use. Partners on this new effort include National Geographic Society, PBS Education, HHMI Biointeractive and Mission Blue."
Gaynell Lyman

TeachersFirst's Copyright and Fair Use Resources - 2 views

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  • Gaynell Lyman on 05 May 16
     
    "This collection of reviewed resources from TeachersFirst is selected to help teachers, parents, and students understand concepts of copyright and Fair Use.  This collection includes instructional activities about copyright and collections/tools to use images, music, and texts legally, either through Fair Use or Creative Commons licensing. Use these resources to model and teach ethical use of electronic media or to find copyright-safe raw materials for student projects. Be sure to share these resources with students for them to access any time they have a project to do."
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