Bus/Parking lot duty: Gaynor and Fehling
Monday 1/14: Non-Work Day
Monday 1/14: Non-Work Day
Tuesday 1/15:
Wednesday 1/16:
Thursday 1/17: 2:30 pm - staff mtg in library with Dr. Cook and Scott Maben
Friday 1/18:
Wednesday 1/16:
Thursday 1/17: 2:30 pm - staff mtg in library with Dr. Cook and Scott Maben
Friday 1/18:
Bus/Parking lot duty: Hamill and Higgs
Monday 1/21: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Tuesday 1/22: Kaiser at a conference all day
Wednesday 1/23:
Thursday 1/24:Conferences from 2:30 - 6:30
Friday 1/25: Teacher Workday, no school for students
Bus/Parking lot duty: Levy and Eastman
Monday 1/28: Non-Work Day
Tuesday 1/29: Kaiser out @AM
Wednesday 1/30:
Thursday 1/31:
Friday 2/1: Kaiser out @ AM
Visible Learning in a Competency-Based Program:
We encounter some significant challenges on our journey toward competency-based learning.
Visible thinking is really about giving students opportunities to practice the thinking that leads to true understanding which underscores the attainment of competence or mastery. Thinking routines guide the process of peer interactions and active processing that shifts learning from the acquisition of unrelated bits of knowledge to the the connected knowledge that is understanding.
We encounter some significant challenges on our journey toward competency-based learning.
- How do we make learning accessible to all of our students?
- How do we provide the differentiated, timely support that students need to become the 21st century communicators, thinkers, and problem-solvers that we all agree they need to be?
Visible thinking is really about giving students opportunities to practice the thinking that leads to true understanding which underscores the attainment of competence or mastery. Thinking routines guide the process of peer interactions and active processing that shifts learning from the acquisition of unrelated bits of knowledge to the the connected knowledge that is understanding.
A thinking routine is a simple structure that you can begin using immediately to develop student thinking and classroom culture.
From the Visible Thinking Website, a thinking routine:
From the Visible Thinking Website, a thinking routine:
- Is goal oriented in that it targets specific types of thinking
- Gets used over and over again in the classroom
- Consists of only a few steps
- Is easy to learn and teach
- Is easy to support when students are engaged in the routine
- Can be used across a variety of context
- Can be used by the group or by the individual
Here is the video from Project Zero that explains thinking routines:
This link will take you to 7 thinking routines that are easy to integrate with your existing content. It includes the "See, Think, Wonder" routine that some of you mentioned on your exit slip.
Come see me if you want help to get started or to try new routines. I would love to help you find and implement a thinking routine that "get's at" the kind of thinking you want your students to engage in.
Come see me if you want help to get started or to try new routines. I would love to help you find and implement a thinking routine that "get's at" the kind of thinking you want your students to engage in.
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