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Student collaboration and language use

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What is the role of discourse in the CCSS?

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What is the role of discourse in the CCSS?

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21st century learners
collaboration

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Classroom Environment
Collaboration
Barriers with collaboration
Cooperative Learning
How Students Learn
Celebrating Success

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- Collaboration: learning strategy where students get into pairs or groups (formed by interests, topic of study, book, projects, birthday, by random, etc.) and interact about their learning
- Goal: Students ask each other questions and problem-solve in these groups
- Purpose: deepens understanding, promotes evidence-based explanations, and engages students
- Barriers: students won't be on task and take too much class time
- How to implement this strategy: set clear expectations for behavior, model, require accountability, monitor, assess, ask students to evaluate their own and others' performance

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Is academic language different in the different content areas?
Does it only belong to specific disciplines?
How can it be developed across disciplines? Will it applied differently?

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Academic language and literacy within disciplines
Discipline specific learning environments
Accountable talk within Disciplines

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Tailoring writing strategies to meet CCSS

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How does it relate to collaboration? How can argument combine with classroom talk?

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What are commonalities and differences of learning environments across disciplines?

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What are commonalities and differences of learning environments across disciplines?

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What is accountable talk?

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Student-centered approach to learning--> shift from "covering content" to disciplinary inquiry and knowledge
collaborate
students become independent, reflective, and self-regulated learners
emphasis on student communication of concepts

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What does writing look like in each discipline?

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What does writing look like in each discipline?

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How do you enact Response to Intervention (RtI)?

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How do you enact Response to Intervention (RtI)?

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There are three different tiered responses based on student needs

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What is collaborative inquiry?
What are some barriers in collaboration?
What do effective collaboration groups consist of?
What is cooperative learning?
How can you differentiate learning within cooperative learning groups?
How do you keep students motivated, engaged and give them a voice?
What role does the classroom environment play in student learning?
Why should you celebrate student success?

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What are some skills needed to make the transition from high school to college-level writing?

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What are some skills needed to make the transition from high school to college-level writing?

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What is writing in the disciplines like?
English language arts
fine arts
mathematics
History and social studies
science
physical education/health

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What are useful "writing to learn" activities?

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What are useful "writing to learn" activities?

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Uses as it pertains to different subjects

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Sharing successful techniques of proficient writers

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Sharing successful techniques of proficient writers

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-Formative
-International
-National
-Standardized Test
-Authentic

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Utilizing various WTL strategies to support students' writing development

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What is the role of collaboration in writing?

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What is the role of collaboration in writing?

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What role does writing have in the digital world?

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What role does writing have in the digital world?

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"What are some skills needed to make the transition from high school to college-level writing?"

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"What are some skills needed to make the transition from high school to college-level writing?"

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- balances thinking about a subject, purpose, audience, and word choice
- looks for multiple meanings in the text
- aware of their own biases as a writer
- takes time to think about the "what" and the "how"

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Language used to describe complex ideas, higher order thinking, and abstract concepts
Essential for learning
Also involves questions
To develop academic discourse students need to learn not only academic vocab but also learn to interpret what they read, express themselves orally and in writing, explain their idea, collaborate, and have opportunities to use academic language.

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How to change classroom environments to assist your students' learning.

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What is writing to learn?
Journal writing
character journals
Cornell notes
learning logs
interactive notebooks
cubing

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What are useful "writing to learn" activities?

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What are useful "writing to learn" activities?

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journal writing
character journals
Cornell notes
learning logs
interactive notebooks
cubing
RAFT
summarizing
writing frames
creative writing
quick writes
admit/exit slips

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"What are steps of the writing process?"

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"What are steps of the writing process?"

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- Pre-writing/planning
- Drafting
- Revising
- Editing
- Postwriting / Presenting / Publishing

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What is RAFT?

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1. Argument Writing
2. Narrative
3. Laboratory Report

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One word summaries
Creative writing
quick writes
admit/exit slips

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How do we assess a student's understanding of a text?

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How do we assess a student's understanding of a text?

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By using the cloze procedure and holding them accountable

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By complexity and quantity
Heterogeneous groups to enhance individualized work
Peer tutoring to challenge both the tutors and tutees
Alternative homework, research projects, enrichment activities

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Good writing skills are necessary to be ready for college or the workforce

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Good writing skills are necessary to be ready for college or the workforce

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"What is the role of collaboration in writing?"

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"What is the role of collaboration in writing?"

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-meaningful feedback from peers and teacher
-co-writing
-larger collaborative writing projects

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There are specific techniques that many proficient writers consistently use

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There are specific techniques that many proficient writers consistently use

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Collaborative inquiry is the process of students questioning their reading, writing, and thinking in pairs or groups. Some barriers in this technique include students being off-task and taking too much class time. However, these barriers can be avoided by setting clear expectations of behavior, modeling that expected behavior, requiring accountability, assessing and evaluating students' group work, and having students evaluate both their own and other group members performance.

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What is the role of collaborative writing?

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What is peer collaboration?

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What is digital writing or writing on the screen?

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What is the best approach to improve students writing?

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Knowledge is not developed in a vacuum.
The more opportunities students have for creating authentic conversations using academic language the more comprehension happens.
A teacher's perspective, attitudes, and beliefs about how students learn will determine how they plan

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Argument writing is a fantastic way to develop your skills as a critical writer

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Argument writing is a fantastic way to develop your skills as a critical writer

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How do we assess student learning in this era of new educational standards?

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How do we assess student learning in this era of new educational standards?

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Blended Assessments
Grades and Grading

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WTL activities help students with summarizing, analyzing, or synthesizing information

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WTL activities help students with summarizing, analyzing, or synthesizing information

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How is Academic Language used in Content Areas?

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How is Academic Language used in Content Areas?

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What are some materials to use when assessing?

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What are some materials to use when assessing?

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Lexile level
Fry Readability Graph

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Assessments can be formal or informal, and it should be ongoing and flexible. The form and frequency will vary according to the purpose of student needs, task, and instructional objectives.

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How do we learn through talk and arguments?

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How do we learn through talk and arguments?