Strategy 1: Teach to Developmental Needs
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Weightlessness in Space Astronauts face many problems in space caused by weightlessness. One of these problems is floating around the cabin. To solve this problem, astronauts wear wear shoes that are coated with a special adhesive. This adhesive sticks to the floor of the cabin. Serving food is another problem. It won't stay put on the table! Experts solved this problem by putting food and drinks in pouches and tubes. It only needs to be mixed with water. Weightlessness also causes problems when an astronaut tries to work. The simple task of turning a wrench or a doorknob can be difficult. Since there is no gravity to keep him down, when he exerts a force in one direction, the opposite force may flip him over completely. To solve this problem, he must be very careful about how much force he uses to do these simple tasks. Here on earth, life is much simpler, thanks to gravity.
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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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Building School-Based Student Digital Book Clubs | MiddleWeb - 0 views
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real readers find pockets of time during the day in which to squeeze some reading, known in her classes as “reading emergencies.” Highly portable digital devices make it much easier to exploit these pockets of time.
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Two other elements for engagement, purpose and audience, proved to be the difference makers. When learners know that they will receive feedback when posting their thoughts and questions about what they’re reading, they see how these digital forums can serve them compared to just chatting about the mundane.
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having a diversity of abilities and interests paved the way toward a more authentic community of readers.
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But we don’t plan to quantify the results. Instead we’ll ask questions like: Do they read without the need of a log? Have they ever saved up their allowance so they could get that special title on its release date? Has a whole afternoon passed by because they were so immersed in a book?
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. Bridging these two worlds through social media such as Google+, Twitter, and Edmodo gives us that authentic experience of what read readers do.
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teach our students to be critical thinkers of what we read and investigate multiple perspectives before we can say we “learned” something.