Wathall Synthesis Chapter 5 (How do I captivate Students?) by Anthony Giliberto

Motivation

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Create a Social Learning Environment

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Provide opportunities for students to communicate and construct learning through engaging, collaborative tasks.

EX) matching cards in groups to interpret multiple representation such as matching graphs with characteristics

Beneficial as collaboration helps students use mistakes to improve understanding, and to listen and reflect on ideas of others and get reasoned explanations.

Establishing Growth Mindset

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Make sure to encourage mistakes in a safe, secure environment. Also, fight stereotypes that say only certain people can do math as everyone with hard work and practice.

Encouraging Mistakes in Learning

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Growth Mindset students believe that difficult tasks are opportunities to grow and mistakes are a vital part of the process.

One method to encourage mistakes is to explain to students that with each failure your brain make more tiny connections and grows stronger. When you see a big mistake you can yell "YES, I have just made my brain stronger!"

Levels of Inquiry

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Concept based lesson plans should accommodate opportunities for learners to take differ like of inquiry and not have rigid one sided perspectives. Teachers should entertain and encourage students questions and lines of thinking with problems and concepts.

Teacher Talk Time Vs Student Working Time

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It is essential to limit teacher talk time and to have student engaged in self centered learning, activities, and collaboration. I personally like the age to two ratio or not talking for longer than the age of the student in minutes. I also think that the 70/30 rule or that the teacher should only talk for about 30% of the period is valuable.

Limiting teacher talk time reduces the risk of behavior issues, attention problems, and gets students to think for themselves which strengthens their knowledge of the content.

Differentiation Strategies

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Otherwise can be interpreted as "respectful teaching" or thinking of all students success

Curriculum Related Elements of a Differentiated Classroom

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1) Content: specially for math you can give tiered tasks of varying levels of difficulty so that students can do problems and master each level before moving on

2) Process: giving options for processes to solve problems

3) Product: the medium or of which students present their knowledge is different Ex: video, website, presentation for a tiered activity

4) Affect: Refers to the ability to move emotionally or to touch the feelings of your students

Tri-Mind Activities

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Break processes up into analytical, practical, and creative and have students choose which way fits them best, also encourage students to do multiple ways

Tiered Problem Difficulty Levels

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Allows students to start where they see fit and work through the difficulties.

Hint Cards or Jars

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Can give students a jumpstart or little nudge on problems that they need some guidance on or to help them move to the next stage of understanding.

Student Choice

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1) On medium in which they present knowledge

2) bout what they want to know (Can use the KWL and have students come up with a list of questions about a particular unit and prioritize and address each question)

3) Choice to motivate and engage in the content

Be Purposeful in Asking Questions

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When you do a random call or a popsicle stick call out you run the risk of students feeling called out and embarrassed when they don't know the answer. Math anxiety and fear is encouraged when students are randomly asked to answer questions.

Instead to promote more participation and less fear, use methods such as thumbs at chest or think pair share to get paper feedback.

Structure of a Classroom

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Structure is one of the most important factors for effective student participation and collaboration. With a traditional classroom where there is a teacher is front and desks in the back, the eager to learn students sit up front and slack offs generally migrate towards the back. This puts the teacher at center stage and makes them the center of learning.

Instead, structuring a classroom so that the teacher is integrated in the learning environment and acts more as a guide on the side. The main focus should be putting kids in groups to be able to share and be the center of their own learning. I like fours because you can do elbow, diagonal, and cross partners. Collaboration is key.

Keeping Students on Task in Social Learning Environment

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Obviously, with a social learning environment comes the opportunity for distractions. In order to keep students on task in these environments, they must establish clear and concise expectations, give students specific roles within the group, and have close proximity and check ins throughout. Also making sure that there are activities involved in the collaboration such as placematting or introducing valuable guided questions.