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I would like to use the vocabulary activity Study Stack to preview and review the vocabulary.

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I would like using WordItOut with a class. I think it would be a great tool to emphasize on the most important vocabulary from a lesson.

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Strength: Modeling and Practice- My co-teacher and I, as well as my 6A Special Education team, make sure that we provide an ample amount of modeling and practice to ensure that students are comprehending content.

Area for Growth: I could increase the amount of inquiry-based problem-solving learning strategies that I use.

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I would like to use Study Stack and VocabAhead for our new unit.

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Strength:
1. Collaboration: My students work very well in collaborative groups.
Weaknesses:
1. I would like to improve in the areas of vocabulary and technology.

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One of my greatest strengths with teaching and learning is the way I provide practice for my students. This strategy alone helps them to develop into the type of learner for life. It also provides them with lots of ways to learn and to fit their needs individually. One area in which I would love to grow stronger and I am working on improving is Summarizing. In doing so, I am beginning to ask higher order questions for feedback and also add them to formal and informal assessments by providing a community of online learners through discussion boards.

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The two instructional strategies that I would have to say are my greatest strengths are Modeling and Practice and teaching complex content vocabulary words to the students. I have realized over my lifetime that the majority of the people that I have come into contact with are visual learners and may not understand instructions that are given to them without SEEING the instructor, model the lesson for them. Once the student understands how to do an assignment, then the student will be confident to engage in independent practice and can be assessed by the instructor in an effective manner. With respect to teaching complex content vocabulary words to the students, I believe that I do an excellent job in breaking down words so that the students can understand what they are generally reading. I think that the number one reason why students do not do well on standardized testing is that the students do not understand what the question is asking them; the students don't understand the language of the standards and the questioning that is placed in front of them and this leads to an overwhelming feeling. It's essential for teachers to focus on teaching the language of the standards to their students.

I believe that  areas that I need to work on are collaboration and problem solving strategies. While I lesson plan for and implement collaboration in my classroom, I spend a lot of time assessing myself and how effective lessons truly are and how they are administered to the students. To do this, I poll my students to see what works and what doesn't and usually my students tell me that they don't like the collaboration piece of learning in the classroom because of two factors: 1) they truly feel that they do not learn as much from their peers as they would from the teacher and 2) they, for the most part, have concerns about whether or not their peers are contributing their fair share of research and work to the overall final project. I have been responsive to the concerns of the majority of my students and have used collaboration sparingly.
With respect to problem-solving strategies, I truly believe that something that I need to research and work on in my classroom.

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Modeling higher order thinking is one of the weaker areas for me. In order to use this in my classroom more, I will set a particular day as my modeling day. This will help me make it more of a habit or routine for both content areas. I forget that even our high achievers need that guidance and modeling too.

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#2  I think I could use a Flipped classroom with my students with a great amount of success. For some reason, I have a fear of this one so I need to take a risk and challenge myself.

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I often use quality plus teaching strategies at Step 4 of the Literacy Framework. My students are encouraged to work together and find common ground on their math work. When it's time for independent practice, I am able to meet with a small group of struggling learners or I walk around and provide each student with needed support.

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I have used Mangahigh, Khan Academy and EdPuzzle from Modeling and Practice from the digital guide. I would like to start using Screencast-o-matic with my students so that my students can have these video clips to use as a reference when they need additional help or reminders.

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In my math class, my area of strength is Modeling and Practice which is done using a variety of manipulatives and showing students a variety of ways to arrive at an answer.

My area that I would like to improve in is Vocabulary. Getting students to use the correct math terms when speaking or asking for help.

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Greatest strength in my classroom currently:
1) "Non-verbal representation" in math (formula foldable) and science (PPT project).
2) Use "Technology" for Kahoot as a quick assessment/review and project.
I would like to grow in "Problem-Solving" the most because I need to challenge my Gifted students by providing proficient open-ended tasks. It will be great to see how students use a variety of problem-solving strategies effectively.

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I will try more "Problem-solving" to "use inquiry-based problem-solving learning strategies with students in all content areas" in my classroom. Using the BIE website, I can assign my students to create and share. My students love projects because it's engaging and motivating them.

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I will use Step 3 Model Higher-Order Reading/Thinking using appropriate DOK (Level 3 or 4) for my Gifted students. I can corporate this Step 3 with problem-solving questions.

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#1 Line - I think I use the questioning strategy well throughout both academic classes. The students ask, answer and discuss questions in all lessons. My weakness is probably feedback. I need to work on feedback esp. to the parents.

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I will use screen-cast-o-matic to model how to do think a-louds and close reaqding. So my students can see what a good reader does and thinks.

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I have used Screencast-o-matic in the past but not as a modeling resource. I can use this to model a read or think -aloud for students to examine.,

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Literacy is a huge component in my classroom for both subjects LA and SS.  Students read and use several strategies before, during and after reading to make it more meaningful.

An area I would like to work on is Vocabulary. I need to review the essential testing vocabulary with my students.

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While it wasn't listed on the QPTS digital guide, I'd like to learn more about using Google classroom resources for students to collaborate. I know there is a wealth of resources out there, it's just a matter of finding the time to dig through and find the perfect one for what I'm working on at the time!

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I believe my greatest QPTS strength to be technology. I find educational technology tools to be so engaging and useful and incorporate them in every lesson. A QPTS I'd like to grow in would be collaboration, specifically using collaboration in the Media Center. When I was in the classroom, my students collaborated every day. I'd like to learn more ed tech tools that can be used for collaboration.

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I use collaboration in my classroom all the time. It's important that students hear explanations and perspectives of their peers to obtain a better understanding of the concept being learned. We do labs a lot and groups that are successful  discuss and talk through the labs. The area I need to grow in is literacy. I would like to incorporate more content-based reading that deals with real world issues to make science relevant to the students and help them put the science vocabulary in context.

Salwa V.

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#3 Model Higher-Order Reading/Thinking: 

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Hi, Claudia Acosta again.
I use Fridays as "Blue Book Friday". Every Friday the students have their Physical Science Interactive Textbook to read and answer the questions they find, like: ""Why do ionic compounds dissolved in water conduct an electric current?" . To answer this question, students need to read critically.

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Hi, I am Claudia Acosta. I would like to know more about non verbal representation in teaching chemistry. I use analogies like a building with several floors and rooms to represent electron shells. Does anyone has a better analogy in this case?

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Hi, My name is Claudia Acosta.
I would like to know how much time is enough wait-time after asking questions.
I use ABCD voting cards distributed to every student to answer online quizzes like the ones in Brain pop.
I post questions on the board and ask volunteers to answer them. I have not tried non-volunteers.

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I often use quality plus teaching strategies in Step 4 of the Literacy Framework. I model the use of cognitive strategies and skills during think alouds. Then I give students opportunities to practice with a partner or in a group, followed by independent practice. During independent practice, I check students' understanding and provide additional instruction as needed.

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I will try these two resources from the

ReadWriteThink site.

Webbing Tool: to build comprehension skills by helping students organize ideas and concepts from informational text.

Essay Map: to help students write clear constructed responses to prompts related to the impact of historical events in social studies.

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Literacy is the greatest strength in my social studies classroom at the moment. My students and I practice close reading as we engage with content -related text multiple times, having pen or pencil in hand, with established purposes for reading. I would like to grow in the practice of teaching students to use questioning and cuing/prompting techniques when they engage with text.

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In Step 1 I could use the new strategy Study Stack to review vocabulary online. Step 3 and work very well together in Math classes. Modeling thinking and Guided Practice go hand in hand when showing students new math concepts and practicing others. This works especially well with word problems. I agree with Shackelford, Step 5 - Adjustment to Instruction, is something that all teachers do in between class periods and even multiple times throughout a class period.

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Study Stack (Vocabulary Resource): I plan to use it at the beginning of a unit when we have new vocabulary to go over. I could attach it to my eClass page and require students to go on and practice their math vocabulary for 5 minutes.

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I currently use the following Quality Plus Teaching Strategies:
1) Problem Solving: Math is all about problem solving and I encourage my students to solve problems in whatever ways work for them. We talk about different ways to solve the same problem.
2) Technology: We use QR codes, online games like Kahoot, and eClass within lessons.
3) Questioning: I am constantly posing questions to the class, both questions that they (should) know the answers to as well as questions that make them think. I also strive to consistently ask questions one on one with students when helping them. I want them to do all of the work themselves by answering the questions - getting away from the learned helplessness.
4) Modeling and Practice: I do, We do, You do is an everyday occurrence in my classes. Student hear my thought process and follow my thinking as we work problems together.
5) Collaboration: My students sit in table groups of 4. The students most work with a partner or in their small table group. I encourage peer teaching and help with questions before coming and asking me.

Quality Plus Teaching Strategies I would like to do more of:
1) Literacy: I would like to include literacy strategies more than just when we have word problems. Most of my students have low literacy and it makes the math word problems even more difficult.
2) Vocabulary: I would like to be better about using correct mathematical vocabulary instead of using synonyms or catchy words that they are used to and know.

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We don't do very much writing in PE but a teaching strategy I pulled from this template that I feel is important is the Adjustment to Instruction. Multiple learning styles should be used to teach students because they don't all learn the same way. They should also be able to use their strengths when it comes to demonstrating what they have learned.

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Animoto - Explainer Video is a resource that I would like to utilize in my classroom. Students could research a particular muscle group and then find exercises that will strengthen those muscles.  They could use Animoto to explain what they learned and share it with other students.

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As a Physical Education teacher the Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies that I currently use are 1.) Modeling and Practice - it is important to demonstrate the skill that students are expected to be able to do and then have them practice.  2.) Background Knowledge - allows student to relate what they already know or have seen with the  concept they are learning. 3.) Student Goal Setting - what do they know now, what can they do now, how can they improve and what will it take to get there.  The Fitness Gram Assessment is an example of how we take their present data and make goals for improving.

What I would like to practice more of is the use of comparing and contrasting - student need to understand how to think through the similarities and differences of concept and situations and their results.

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#3 Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies and the MMS Framework

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#3 Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies and the MMS Framework

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Review the 8 steps of the MMS 8 Step Literacy Framework for Mastery and consider the Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies. Discuss in which steps of the Framework you will use/do use some of the Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies.

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#2 Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies Digital Guide

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#2 Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies Digital Guide

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GCPS has identified digital resources available to assist in delivering the Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies in the classroom.  Explore these resources.  Post below which resource you plan to try in your classroom and how you might try it.

http://publish.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/gcps/wcm/connect/gcps_public_content_enus/qpts

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GCPS values the following 13 research based strategies to ensure student achievement. Review the PDF with the 13 strategies.  Post below which of the 13 are the greatest strength in your classroom currently and which strategy you would like to grow in the most.