Mod 9 Writing to Learn
Link might be easier to read: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jMci1GftwAtsaF56ZT_BsOINEdM9Tt1S/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105211804050911235598&rtpof=true&sd=true
List 3 key ideas from your readings this week [1 from your textbook/ 1 from the Fang and Park article/1 from your choice article].
Fisher and Frey concludes that when students are writing they are thinking. The authors provide the reader with several different modes for the students to write in that encourages learning. Fang and Park discuss the difficulties of using discipline specific language in writing as these words are not commonly found in the students common lexicon. Also identifying a students family's economic standing can effect linguistic skills developed by the student. Lastly, Park and Logsdon expand the idea in science students cannot completely understand observations they see in a classroom without being able to descriptively record what they see.
List 2 strategies you will incorporate into your future teaching and include one sentence explaining why.
Yesterday's News - Its another way of recapping the class before.
"What if" scenarios - students are given a prompt in which something is changed from the current knowledge or expected outcome. This challenges the student understanding.
List one question you still have about writing.
How would I work Found poems into my classroom effectively.
I also took note that in the reading they explicitly stated that students are learning when they are wriiting. Now, getting them to write, haha, that is another story. I do always wonder however, what they mean by writing. Does typing on the computer count as writing or does only the traditional pen and paper writing hold any significance? There have been studies done to show that handwriting can be more beneficial, but I wonder how much of that holds true in a genuine classroom environment. However, I am now going off on a tangent and need to get back on track. You lesson plan looks meticulously crafted and is very intentional on ensuring that the students remember what they did last class. Since most lessons typically build upoin one another, this has been a major struggle for me because I feel like everything I say goes in one ear and out the other. However, the way you have set up your lesson has given me some excellent ideas that I will be using in the future.
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of using admit slips as well (for me in the social studies content area). Since this is a "low stakes" writing to learn strategy, I would worry about how to get the students to care about the quality of what they write, given that it will probably not be a graded assessment. However, if the students are expected to share what they write with a partner, small group, or the entire class, that might provide the incentive. I think admit slips can set tone for what is going to be done that class period, as well as reinforce prior class learning.
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