Strategy 1: Teach to Developmental Needs
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Five Special Strategies for Teaching Tweens | MiddleWeb - 0 views
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competence and achievement; opportunities for self-definition; creative expression; physical activity; positive social interactions with adults and peers; structure and clear limits; and meaningful participation in family, school, and community.
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physical movement. It’s not enough for tweens to move between classes every 50 minutes (or every 80 minutes on a block schedule)
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show students that not everyone starts at the same point along the learning continuum or learns in the same way.
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model asking difficult questions to which we don’t know the answers, and we publicly demonstrate our journey to answer those questions.
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We don’t limit students’ exposure to sophisticated thinking because they haven’t yet mastered the basics
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invite individual students to acquire, process, and demonstrate knowledge in ways different from the majority of the class if that’s what they need to become proficient.
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can teach a global lesson on a sophisticated concept for 15 minutes, and then allow students to process the information in groups tiered for different levels of readiness.
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present an anchor activity for the whole class to do while we pull out subgroups for minilessons on basic or advanced material.
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we should never let the test format get in the way of a student’s ability to reveal what he or she knows and is able to do
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In differentiated classes, grading focuses on clear and consistent evidence of mastery, not on the medium through which the student demonstrates that mastery.
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grade all the projects using a common scoring rubric that contains the universal standards for which we’re holding students accountable
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Of course, if the test format is the assessment, we don’t allow students to opt for something else. For example, when we ask students to write a well-crafted persuasive essay, they can’t instead choose to write a persuasive dialogue or create a poster. Even then, however, we can differentiate the pace of instruction and be flexible about the time required for student mastery.
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llow tweens to redo work and assessments until they master the content, and we give them full credit for doing so
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When we formally assess student writing, we focus on just one or two areas so that students can assimilate our feedback.
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the way that good ideas usually come into the world. They are, inevitably, constrained by the parts and skills that surround them.
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Nike announced a new Web-based marketplace it calls the GreenXchange, where it has publicly released more than 400 of its patents that involve environmentally friendly materials or technologies. The marketplace is a kind of hybrid of commercial self-interest and civic good. This makes it possible for outside firms to improve on those innovations, creating new value that Nike might ultimately be able to put to use itself in its own products.
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The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them
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Johannes Gutenberg, for instance, took the older technology of the screw press, designed originally for making wine, and reconfigured it with metal type to invent the printing press.
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The premise that innovation prospers when ideas can serendipitously connect and recombine with other ideas may seem logical enough, but the strange fact is that a great deal of the past two centuries of legal and folk wisdom about innovation has pursued the exact opposite argument, building walls between ideas.
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they reduce the overall network of minds that can potentially engage with a problem, and they reduce the unplanned collisions between ideas originating in different fields.
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Modeled on the success of services like Twitter and Flickr, new Web startups now routinely make their software accessible to programmers who are not on their payroll, allowing these outsiders to expand on and remix the core product in surprising new ways.
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the adjacent possible defines all those molecular reactions that were directly achievable in the primordial soup. Sunflowers and mosquitoes and brains exist outside that circle of possibility. The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
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Nike is widening the network of minds who are actively thinking about how to make its ideas more useful, without adding any more employees
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the mission control engineers realize they need to create an improvised carbon dioxide filter, or the astronauts will poison the lunar module atmosphere with their own exhalations before they return to Earth.
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"We gotta find a way to make this fit into a hole for this," he says, and then points to the spare parts on the table, "using nothing but that."
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Hack this journal - Making Learning Connected - 0 views
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every day is something creative, but also a little destructive, to make the journal the person’s own.
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getting away from the idea of a journal as a pristine collection of thoughts, by getting away from the journal as a sort of rigid cultural model of private thoughts or experiences that are locked away
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collaborate project, and it could still stay private because we wouldn’t have to share our journal entries if we didn’t want to