Teaching

Have you heard about the boy that taught his dog to talk?

What is teaching?

What is learning?

Coverage vs Uncoverage

Uncoverage

• Making sense of teaching

• Interacting with insights and knowledge through well designed experiences

Coverage

• Sharing insights and knowledge

Which strategies uncover?

The best

teachers:

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2.

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4.

Marzano’s Research

Effective Teaching

Advance Organizers

Building Vocabulary

Graphic Organizers

Chunking Information

Summarizing & Note Taking

Identifying Similarities & Differences

Use Advance Organizers to Preview

Content

Talk with a

partner and

come up with 3

reasons.

Building Vocabulary

Understanding –

Verb – To understand a topic or subject is to be

able to use knowledge and skill wisely and

effectively

Noun – An understanding is the successful result

of trying to understand

Understanding is more than just regurgitating information mindlessly. It involves a depth of insight and familiarity that allows a person to use it for authentic purposes.

Explain what understanding is to your neighbor in your own words.

Summarizing & Note taking

Priming: Look for

how this relates to the

Big Ideas and

Essential Questions of

UbD

• Idea – Big picture purpose/direction

• EQ – Provoke interest /inquiry

Big Idea / Essential Questions

• Reflects purpose

• Personally relate in multiple facetsMain Idea

Read Steps 1-7 for Teaching Students to Think Critically

Primer: Look for practical ways you could integrate these into your teaching?

3-2-1- Summarize!

What 3 things are you already doing some of in your teaching?

Summarizing - Chunking

3-2-1- Summarize!

Identify 2 areas (skills) that your students may be struggling with.

3-2-1- Summarize!

Explain how you are going to implement 1 of these strategies in your

class on Monday.

Face Off

Read Distinguishing characteristics of understandings

excerpt from Understanding by Design.

Index Card Side A - Quote

“The understanding will need to be uncovered, because it is

abstract and not immediately obvious” (p.127).

Save the last quote!

Index Card Side B - Response

An enduring understanding can not be transferred through a statement or

an explanation. I need to design learning experiences that uncover the

understanding. In the example of understandings related to effective

stories I may begin with having students think about their favorite stories

and reflecting on what makes them captivating. We can build a word web

then have students write a response explaining what elements of stories

really capture their interest. In this we will uncover some of the

understandings related to effective stories.