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3. Make sure you understand what type of answer the main verb calls for (a diagram a summary, details, an analysis, an evaluation).

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9. Read over your answer again and check if all the main ideas have been included.

10. Check your answer for grammar and punctuation.

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A teaching strategy is the method you use to convey information to your students. There may be a particular strategy that works well with yourgroup of studentsone year that won't work with your students the next year. Because of this, it's important to have lots of teaching strategies in your toolbox. Here are some of the top ideas for you to use.

1. Modeling

After telling students what to do, it's important to show them exactly how to do it. Model how you expect them to complete an assignment, so they understand what they're supposed to do. This will help your students who are visual learners, too.

2. Mistakes

If you've ever accidentally spelled a word wrong on the board, you know that students love to identify mistakes. When you're teaching a new skill, make an example riddled with mistakes. Let students practice the skill by identifying and fixing the mistakes for you.

3. Feedback

Students don't always know if they're doing a good job without you telling them so. Regularly provide written or verbal feedback for individual or group assignments.

Also, it can be beneficial to turn the tables sometimes. Let the students provide you feedback to tell you how you're doing, too.

4. Cooperative Learning

Students learn effectively when they're working together. Plan activities that require students to work together and learn from one another. In the process, they'll also learn critical thinking skills, communication skills, problem solving skills, and more.

5. Experiential Learning

Students learn by doing, so create experiences for them to see the concepts in action. Let them practice the concepts in a safe environment. Then, they should reflect on the experience and discuss what they learned from it. Classroom activities that you could do for experiential learning include fun games, experiments, or simulations.

6. Student-Led Classroom

When students get to be the teacher for the day, they learn things that they wouldn't have learned otherwise. You could have students team teach or work in groups to teach a new topic. You'll find that other students will learn from their peers' unique take on the subjects, too.

7. Class Discussion

Another way for students to teach each other is throughclass discussions. As students take turns discussing the subject, you can assess their knowledge and discover which students grasp the concepts and to what extent.

8. Inquiry-Guided Instruction

By asking questions and working together to solve the problems, students get to be involved in the learning process. The class can work together to determine the answer and report it. As students do the work to discover the answers on their own, they remember the concepts better and more fully.

9. Lesson Objective Transparency

Rather than letting your students figure out what they should be learning on their own, just tell them. Clearly state yourlesson goals or objectives. You could announce it in class or write it on the board. Just make it simple and clear for all of your students to understand. Then, they know what they're working towards and what they should know by the end of the class. This also really helps to reduce student anxiety come test time.

10. Graphic Organizers

Graphic organizers summarize the information in a concise manner. Using a flow chart, Venn diagram, or web, students get to see the information in a new light. This helps them organize the information in their minds, so they can better grasp the new concepts.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

The SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) technique provides a framework for communication between members of the health care team about a patient's condition.

S = Situation (a concise statement of the problem)

B = Background (pertinent and brief information related to the situation)

A = Assessment (analysis and considerations of options - what you found/think)

R = Recommendation (action requested/recommended - what you want)

SBAR is an easy-to-remember, concrete mechanism useful for framing any conversation, especially critical ones, requiring a clinician's immediate attention and action. It allows for an easy and focused way to set expectations for what will be communicated and how between members of the team, which is essential for developing teamwork and fostering a culture of patient safety.

Background
Michael Leonard, MD, Physician Leader for Patient Safety, along with colleagues Doug Bonacum and Suzanne Graham at Kaiser Permanente of Colorado (Evergreen, Colorado, USA) developed this technique. The SBAR technique has been implemented widely at health systems such as Kaiser Permanente.

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SBAR Worksheet ("SBAR report to physician about a critical situation"): A worksheet/script that a provider can use to organize information in preparation for communicating with a physician about a critically ill patient

Both the worksheet and the guidelines use the physician team member as the example; however, they can be adapted for use with all other health professionals.

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Bloom's Taxonomy provides a list of action verbs based on each level of understanding. This assists instructors when creating lesson and course objectives.

The following is a list of measurable action verbs that can be used when you are creating your learning objectives. Keep in mind that the goal is not to use different or creative verbs for each objective. That could be confusing to your students. Instead, try and identify the most accurate verb that relates to how you will assess your student's mastery of the objective. For more about using Bloom's Taxonomy in your classroom, please see: tips.uark.edu/using-blooms-taxonomy/

TIPS tip: If you know what verb you want to use, but you are needing to know the Bloom's level, you can use the "find" function (press: Ctrl-F, or Command-F on a Mac) in your browser to locate specific verbs on this chart.

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Bloom's Taxonomy provides a list of action verbs based on each level of understanding. This assists instructors when creating lesson and course objectives. The following is a list of measurable action verbs that can be used when you are creating your learning objectives.

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Online Teaching Strategies to Improve Collaboration Among Nursing Students

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Abstract

Background: Recent literature describes "cognitive dispositions to respond" (CDRs) that may lead physicians to err in their clinical reasoning.

Objectives: To assess learner perception of high‐fidelity mannequin‐based simulation and debriefing to improve understanding of CDRs.

Methods: Emergency medicine (EM) residents were exposed to two simulations designed to bring out the CDR concept known as "vertical line failure." Residents were then block‐randomized to a technical/knowledge debriefing covering the medical subject matter or a CDR debriefing covering vertical line failure. They then completed a written survey and were interviewed by an ethnographer. Four investigators blinded to group assignment reviewed the interview transcripts and coded the comments. The comments were qualitatively analyzed and those upon which three out of four raters agreed were quantified. A random sample of 84 comments was assessed for interrater reliability using a kappa statistic.

Results: Sixty‐two residents from two EM residencies participated. Survey results were compared by technical (group A, n= 32) or cognitive (group B, n= 30) debriefing. There were 255 group A and 176 group B comments quantified. The kappa statistic for coding the interview comments was 0.42. The CDR debriefing group made more, and qualitatively richer, comments regarding CDR concepts. The technical debriefing group made more comments on the medical subjects of cases. Both groups showed an appreciation for the risk of diagnostic error.

Conclusions: Survey data indicate that technical debriefing was better received than cognitive debriefing. The authors theorize that an understanding of CDRs can be facilitated through simulation training based on the analysis of interview comments.

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Background: Recent literature describes "cognitive dispositions to respond" (CDRs) that may lead physicians to err in their clinical reasoning. Objectives: To assess learner perception of high‐fidelity mannequin‐based simulation and debriefing to improve understanding of CDRs. Methods: Emergency medicine (EM) residents were exposed to two simulations designed to bring out the CDR concept known as "vertical line failure."

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August 2013 | Volume 55 | Number 8
Pages 2-2

Bryan Goodwin and Elizabeth Ross Hubbell's new book The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching: A Checklist for Staying Focused Every Day includes a chapter on how to clarify performance expectations for students. Rubrics are an essential tool for delineating the criteria that distinguishes between novice and mastery-level work. Here are a few brief guidelines Goodwin and Hubbell recommend for creating rubrics, as well as a list of online tools to support your work:

Identify the proficient level first. In a four-tier rubric, we recommend that teachers identify level 3 of the rubric first. This level is an acceptable score and shows proficiency at performing the task or understanding the content.

Build the rest of the rubric around proficiency. From this point, building the remainder of the rubric is fairly easy: a 1 shows minimal understanding or performance; a 2 shows some understanding/performance but with significant gaps; and a 4 shows an advanced level of understanding or performance.

Focus on growth. Finally, we recommend that if you use a 0 at all, it should state "Not enough evidence at this point to assess understanding." This way, even scoring at the lowest level of the rubric sends students the message that their level of performance can be improved.

Although rubrics are often associated with evaluating more subjective work, such as student essays, where teacher judgments may seem more arbitrary, identifying performance criteria is equally beneficial for students in more technical subjects such as mathematics or computer science.

Online Tools

Use this list of online resources to help you create performance criteria in your classroom:

Another resource teachers may find helpful is Jon Mueller's Authentic Assessment Toolbox. A professor of psychology at North Central College (IL) and author of Assessing Critical Skills, Mueller (2008) provides a number of resources to help teachers create, modify, or find high-quality rubrics. He also differentiates between analytic and holistic rubrics, giving guidance on when each is more helpful. Holistic rubrics can be used when a project is small or gross judgment is being made. Analytic rubrics-those that provide levels of various criteria-are used for more in-depth projects.

Source: Adapted from The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching: A Checklist for Staying Focused Every Day, by Bryan Goodwin and Elizabeth Ross Hubbell, copyright McREL, 2013.

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I recently read an article discussing 10 Benefits to Playing Games in the Classroom, and it made me think about how much technology is available to teachers and students to create and individualize games. It doesn't take much Google searching to find many articles and dissertations sharing the pedagogical benefits of learning through gameplay. What is more difficult, however; is finding the appropriate tool for your students and your specific learning content.

Whether you are new to creating online classroom games or have been teaching through online games for a long time, there are always new options coming online to discover. Most of these resources are simple to use; others take more technical skill to understand and create and develop your learning activity.

These five sites include options for beginners through experts. All are free and offer a variety of different learning opportunities through gameplay.

Arcade Game Generator - this site is the easiest of all to use and is from Class Tools, a favorite resource for many teachers. Get ideas for your games from the many samples shown before creating your game. Follow the easy directions to add your questions and answers or upload a spreadsheet already on your computer. After adding items, the Arcade Game Generator creates several different games using your questions and answers. Games include Pong, PacMan, Asteroids, and more. This site also creates flashcards using your information.

ProProfs Games and Puzzles is another straightforward game creation tool that focuses on word games. Choose the create option to make sliding puzzles, word searches, crosswords, and more. Options within each type of game allow personalization in difficulty levels, and some offer an opportunity to set the maximum time for gameplay.

Sugarcane is a bit more sophisticated looking than the previous sites, yet is also simple to use. Explore some of the features by playing games already on the site before attempting to create your own. Step-by-step directions make it easy to add and personalize your content and design visually attractive games that even include images. Use one data set to create up to 18 different game formats.

Baamboozle is a little different than the other game tools because it offers interactive game play between teams. Baamboozle keeps track of scores throughout the game. Follow directions to add questions, answers, and point values for items. This site is perfect to use as an introduction to any unit to assess prior comprehension of knowledge, or at the end of your unit for a whole-class or small group review activity.

Answerables is for the more tech-savvy teachers to use in creating a game-based virtual world for students. Answerables also includes an online learning management system to create events and assignments as well as provide feedback. It also offers opportunities for independent learning activities as well as collaboration between students.

As you and your students create learning games, here are some tips to keep in mind:

Content and development of learning skills are the most important thing to consider. If students aren't learning or developing skills, it is just a game.

You don't always have to be the game-maker. Let students create games for their peers or individual practice. You can learn a lot from what students include and what they think is essential.

Think about how to use games for collaboration or to allow for student creativity. Have a toolbox full of different game-creation options to allow student choice in learning.

Try out some of the games at various sites on your own to learn what interests and motivates you. Think about how others have added content and how you can use your content to fit your learning style and classroom situation.

No matter what resource you use, games are always a good idea to encourage learning. Check out TeachersFirst Edge Study Aid Creator resources for many more suggestions for free online game tools.

Have you tried some of these games? If you have ideas and suggestions for others, share in the comments below.
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I dabble in graphic design and have created my own website and blogs, which keep me very busy!

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Basic Operations, Geometry, Graphing, Numbers, Science, Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Environment, Social Studies - History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Special Education, EFL - ESL - ELD, Health, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Other (ELA), Life Skills, Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, For All Subject Areas, Literature, Classroom Management, Character Education, Family Consumer Sciences, General Science, Problem Solving, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Products For TpT Sellers, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Handwriting, Test Preparation, Early Intervention, End of Year, Engineering, Phonics, Close Reading, Classroom Community

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I have taught 1st to 5th Grade over a 25 year span, but have been settled with 1st Grade for the last 12 years. I adore teaching this age group! I am also responsible for the management of our Special Needs Program and hope, one day, to dedicate all my time to teaching students who struggle with basic literacy skills.

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