Good morning from BURTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT-#TEAMBURTON!!! May 10, 2021
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Texas Association of School Administrators Vision In Practice Guest Blog by Robin Sabo, Clear Creek ISD Secondary Social Studies Coordinator offers the following:
It has been a long year for teachers and students. With crazy full schedules, spring fever hitting everyone, and end of the year paperwork piling up, the weeks around end of the year testing can be a downward slide into time filling busy work or videopaluza. While videos are powerful learning tools, how and when they are incorporated matters. As classes transition from first time instruction to test review, it is important for learning to continue bell to bell. Below are a few suggestions to support ongoing learning and growth while reviewing and viewing.
Viewing For Learning
Review the Learning Goal — Allow students time to read and talk about the learning goal.
Ask an Essential Question — Using your essential question as a guide, have students take notes and react together, in real time, with a discussion board tool. You can even join in on the action, plus the discussion board creates a running record to review afterward.
Provide a simple note taking guide (i.e., short vocabulary list, few sentence starters, or a simple graphic organizer) — Like using graphic organizers with reading, the guide helps students record key content in the context in which it is to be understood and/or applied as defined by the learning goal.
Add reading and writing to viewing — Transcripts are not always available, but when they are, they can be a learning tool. One option is to have students follow along on the transcript and annotate as they watch. Better yet, have students read the transcript before watching—this way students can create their own big idea questions for the video.
Students may not always enjoy it but watching a segment more than once can move a learner from passive to active—and all the way to reactive—viewing. With each viewing, consider introducing a new question to help students see the video from different perspectives or in a different context.
Reviewing For Growth
Change It Up — review content at a conceptual/pattern level across time and place.
Make It Fun — debate the most significant historic events or content presented.
Add in Color — Use color to categorize content. Integrate art to illustrate.
Gameify It — Use popular contests such as Survivor, Family Feud, or Who Wants to be a Millionaire to challenge students.
Huddle up — facilitate small group practice test reviews, have small groups focus on specific learning targets, or work with a small group to dig into their thinking around test questions.
Know the Why — As in all learning, it is important for students to understand the purpose behind the learning activities. Why is the content important for them to know, what is the real-world connection to the learning, how is this relevant to them? Encourage students to relate key concepts to current headlines, popular songs, or shows.
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