TRTW Model: Students with Anxiety
Principal's Meeting 10.18.17
Conceptual Objective: Principals will deepen their understanding of how to support content area teachers, ensuring their success in using the TRTW strategy.
Procedural Objective: Principals will think critically about the problem of anxiety on their campus and will write to determine ways to best support students with anxiety.
Literacy Look-Fors in All Content Areas
- What literacy activities should you see when you walk into any classroom? (Look-Fors with PPfT alignment from original look-fors document.)
- How can you document these activities? (Walkthrough form - Admin view; To make your own, follow these steps:
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How to Create (& Edit) A Walkthrough Form for Your Campus, using our template
Session Agenda
Model of the TRTW Method:
1. TALK (using QSSSA)
- (Question) Turn and talk to a shoulder partner about the image above.
- (Signal) You have one minute. Give a thumbs up when your group is ready.
- (Stem) Use the following sentence stem in your conversation: "This image makes me feel/think..."
- (Share) Share with your table.
- (Assess) I will call on students randomly to share with the whole class.
- Everyone will read an excerpt from "Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?" (full article here)
- We will give you 7 minutes to read the excerpt on this prism. (Click the "g" to login automatically with your school ID.) As you read, you will use the strategy: Highlight PLUS. After reading, you will be asked to discuss the phrases/sentences you highlighted.
- If you finish early, review your highlights and/or make notes in preparation for sharing with your group.
- (Question) Turn and talk to a shoulder partner about what you highlighted.
- (Signal) When you are done, put your chin on your fist in a "thinker's chin." When we see that most people are "thinking" about what they read, we will ask you to find a partner.
- (Stem) When you talk, use the stem: "The most important phrase/sentence from this reading was... because..."
- (Share) Share with your partner. You have 1 minute and will be asked to find one more person to share with before you sit down.
- (Assess) Students with black shirts will be asked to share with the whole class.
- Open a new Google Doc or Word Document on your computer.
- You have a choice of what you will write. Both of the options below will be to the real audience of your home campus. You will have 5 minutes.
- Write an explanation of how anxiety affects students in your school and what your staff can do to help support students with anxiety.
- Write a persuasive claim that anxiety should or should not be considered as a reason for a student to receive homebound services.