CPUMS
Week of April 17
Quotation: "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
What is Academic Language?
- Inquiry/Seeking information
- Summarizing and Informing
- Comparing and Contrasting
- Sequencing/Ordering
- Classifying
- Analyzing
- Inferring, Predicting &Hypothesizing
- Justifying and Persuading
- Solving Problems/Problem Solving
- Synthesizing
- Evaluation
- Cause and Effect
How do we teach this in all content areas? This website gives great suggestions on building academic language.
Ten Strategies for Creating a Classroom Culture of High Expectations-Strategy 4
The next few weeks I am going to share an article with you on creating a culture of learning. The article was written by Myra Cloer Reynolds of SREB.
This strategy addresses academic expectations.
The suggested practices answer the essential question, “What does it take for me to earn an A or B on this assignment or in this class?” Students will work harder if they have a grasp of the big picture and examples of the final product(s) they are expected to replicate. All too often, we teach multitudes of “pieces parts,” never providing the student with a way to internalize how these parts fit together into a meaningful whole. Beginning with the end in mind means to plan and teach backward. Ways to establish high expectations include:
- showing students samples of well thought-out solutions to mathematics problems, thus providing them with models of good solution methods
- letting students listen to a recording of an orchestra playing a new piece of music before sight-reading the music for the first time
- letting students watch a video of an operating four-stroke engine before teaching about the individual parts
- letting students hear a well-written essay read aloud and review copies of it before having them write
- providing rubrics (proficiency scales) — or better yet, engaging students in the development of a rubric for an assignment.
Calendar
Monday 4/17/17
- No School
Tuesday, 4/18/17
- IC training in Cedar Rapids-all day
Wednesday, 4/19/17
- Data teams 7:30
- IC training in Cedar Rapids-all day
- Team Learning Meetings
- Working with students and staff
Friday, 4/21/17
- Out of building
- If you would like to see my Google calendar search my name while in Google Calendar.