1. Discuss how the ten elements the authors discuss on page 76 and 77 combine to offer rich learning opportunities for students.
  2. Think about the resources available in your classroom and school. What else might your students need to give them more variety and choice?
  3. How might the use of small groups help meet students' individual needs?
  4. The authors suggest three types of questions in content area reading: the definition question, the consequence question, and the action questions. How do these three question categories provide a framework for helping students uncover idea
 


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Anne Bourgeois
12/14/2011 04:29

Preparing Your Active Learning Classroom p.75
Quote: " Knowledge comes on the coattails of thinking".
Principles that guide us:
Setting up a classroom that is engaging, provides rich interactions, provides differentiation and promotes authentic and purposeful learning all sounds good but it is difficult to achieve. I think the best we can do is to keep these principles in mind and try to implement one small aspect at a time. I know it's the best way that students learn! This process could take 2-3 years to fully implement.
I like the idea of bringing in artifacts or interesting objects to the classroom to promote inquiry based learning. I have done this and we have also included mapping skills. We try to find where on a world map the object may have come from. ( mexican hat- let's find Mexico on the map.
p. 85 I really like the prompts on page 85 as they are open ended questions and they push students to expand their thinking. ( I have to remember to allow enough wait time... as some students need a longer time to gather their thoughts. )

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