Problem Solving and Understanding!
Friday, September 23, 2016
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Competition Idea for Student Motivation
It is difficult sometimes to motivate students toward academic achievement. Here is a website that one teacher uses to track a competition she created. Students earn points toward rewards through a variety of tasks.
Monday, September 12, 2016
JIGSAW: AVID S.O.W. (Strategy of the Week)
JIGSAW
Jigsaw explanation on the OPA Dashboard.
Jigsaw is a strategy for grouping students and having them teach each other. You can do it in a few ways. The basic structure is the students are grouped in a home group and then an expert group. You divide the material up among the groups. To begin, one member of each home group comes together to become experts on a piece of the material. They then return to their home group and teach that material to the home group. It is a good idea to structure each leg of the process using timers. For example: 10 minutes to become experts on the material. Then in the home group 3 minutes for each person to present. This will help keep things moving and ensure that the home groups don't get stuck on one person.
Reading Application: Each group reads a portion of the material, discusses what they read and answers questions relating to the material. When returned to the home group, each person, in turn, reviews the material learned in the expert group, and helps their home-teammates answer questions and take notes on the material.
Math Application: Could use for vocabulary words, each expert group reviewing and understanding a vocabulary word that they then share in their home group including examples. Could use a basic type of problem that the class is working on. Giving each group a specific problem or task to solve. After they work it out, they return to the home group to teach their home group how to solve the problem. I have used this with honors students; I gave each group a different section from the textbook. They had to review the techniques involved and the sample problems and work through some problems together. They then taught the material to the rest of the class.
Jigsaw explanation on the OPA Dashboard.
Jigsaw is a strategy for grouping students and having them teach each other. You can do it in a few ways. The basic structure is the students are grouped in a home group and then an expert group. You divide the material up among the groups. To begin, one member of each home group comes together to become experts on a piece of the material. They then return to their home group and teach that material to the home group. It is a good idea to structure each leg of the process using timers. For example: 10 minutes to become experts on the material. Then in the home group 3 minutes for each person to present. This will help keep things moving and ensure that the home groups don't get stuck on one person.
Reading Application: Each group reads a portion of the material, discusses what they read and answers questions relating to the material. When returned to the home group, each person, in turn, reviews the material learned in the expert group, and helps their home-teammates answer questions and take notes on the material.
Math Application: Could use for vocabulary words, each expert group reviewing and understanding a vocabulary word that they then share in their home group including examples. Could use a basic type of problem that the class is working on. Giving each group a specific problem or task to solve. After they work it out, they return to the home group to teach their home group how to solve the problem. I have used this with honors students; I gave each group a different section from the textbook. They had to review the techniques involved and the sample problems and work through some problems together. They then taught the material to the rest of the class.
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