Conceptual Learning within science and beyond by Alene McDermott

PLC Chart

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When working with standards, we need to look to this. A healthy combo of curriculum and standards.

Breakdown of Standards

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Nouns=concepts (know/understand)

Verbs=skills (do) often we need to break apart verbs in standards.

What does rigor look like?

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Watch how we use and reuse our verbs!!

Planning tool

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Think about vertical planning.

Plan backward, then go foward.

How we teach (or should) concepts

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From a top down perspective - What do we want then to know?

This aids better to skills transfer

"let go of that security blanket of facts."

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Write within the Freyer model.

Create a lesson with concepts

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Document for creation

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Step 1 part 2

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The teacher MUST provide the "state" to avoid the google effect.

Conceptual Relationships

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These are the drivers of the concept

Example of plan

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Chapter 1: Unit Planning Steps (pages 19-20)

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Step 1: Create Unit Title

Step 2: Identify Conceptual Lens (what is your focus?)

Step 3: Identify the unit strands

Step 4: Web out the unit's topics and concepts

Step 5: Write generalizations you expect

Step 6: Brainstorm guiding questions

Step 7: identify critical content

Step 8: Identify key skills

Step 9: Write common summative assessment/rubric

Step 10: design learning experiences

Step 11: Write the unit overview.

Setting up the classroom (chapter 2)

akhermy — 2024-05-29 01:49:35 UTC

Set up a place for exploration
questions are a tool for learning
set up a positive community for learning
intellectual journals
Partner coaching (think/pair/share)
place for discussing change in beliefs/learning
building common language
contrasting traditional/concept based learning
Help students appreciate iterative learning
Avoid over simplistic thinking

Elementary Book referenced

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Instructions

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Step 1: students build their understanding of concepts individually.

Step 2: students build their understanding of the conceptual relationship question.

Step 3: shifting context(transfer) to build schema

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Lunch Tray

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Online resources

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Essential Planner

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Concepts

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Organizing idea containing attributes derived from examples.

Learning is not like a pile of papers, but rather file folders.

Learning that transfers

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Stern's newest book

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"new" Math resources

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1 Science program

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NOTE:

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These are programs that we might not be able to see until next year - use clever to access our reading programs.

Shortcut to teacher toolbox

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Control+F creates a search menu for standards then it highlights the standards

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Another book to check out

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The knowledge gap- lends to our group’s goal

Mystery Science

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Mystery Science AK Standards

akhermy — 2024-05-31 16:49:41 UTC

Magnetic Tool Selector

jg019208 — 2024-05-31 17:29:06 UTC

This is a great tool to see what reading lessons and sessions match up with other content areas. You will need to be signed into i-Ready to access this document.

i-readycentral.com/download/?res=58113&view_pdf=1

iReady math lesson to standard (updated program)

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Day 1 Slides

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If you need a refresher/reminder of what we discussed Tuesday. :)

Day 2 Slides

akhermy — 2024-05-31 22:52:36 UTC

We didn't do all these, but it's a good review of what we covered Wednesday.

We want our lessons more complex and hard.

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What are assessments telling us what we need to do?

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One Point Rubrics

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Dot assessment for all grades

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Bingo dots to grade standards

Green - I got it (and can explain why)

Red - I didn't get it (and can explain why)

(yellow?) - Almost there??

Know Show Prove

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Students wrote down what they know about a topic/standard, then an assessment was created from their answers. Left shows what they students wrote, then the right was the assessment that was created from their answers.