Articulation and Reflection
Keys to encouraging deep thinking in our youngest students
Denise Coffin
twitter @teamcoffin
Understanding Goals
- How can we encourage students to articulate their thinking?
- How can reflection deepen and challenge student and teacher thinking?
- What do you See or Notice?
- What do you Think about this image or parts of this image?
- What Questions does this image raise for you?
- Encourage Inquiry
- Slow Looking
- Practice Articulation
- Develop Questions
- Make it Safe
- Introduce a Topic or Object that Connects to a Teaching/Learning
- What do you think is happening here?
- What questions do you have about this?
- How might we find out more information about this? What does this make you want to explore?
- Connect to Prior Knowledge
- Encourage Inquiry
- Slow Looking
- Practice Articulation
- Develop Questions
- Safe Exploration of a Topic or Object
The Story Routine
Using the postcards, look carefully at the images and consider the following questions:
- What is the Main or central story being told?
- What is the Side story or stories - the story that might be happening around the edges?
- What is the Hidden story - the story that we don't notice immediately?
- Connect to Prior Knowledge
- Slow Looking
- Develop Questions
- Explore in Depth
- Construct Narratives
- Examine Differing Points of View
Painted Reflection Journals
Paint or Draw your reflection about something that has "grabbed" you here at PZ SF.
- Draw on Prior Knowledge
- Make Connections
- Create Visual Metaphors
- Think Analytically
- Wonder
- Explore New Ideas or Points of View
- Time for Silent Reflection - Allow New Ideas to "Take Hold"
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Course Feedback:
- Something that "grabbed" you, that you will take with you
- Something that could be better or discarded
- Something that was missing, that you wish I had done or covered
- Was this course useful to you and to your practice?
CASIE PZ Perspectives San Francisco
Find out about CASIE and other PZ events around the world!
Ladder of Feedback
Here is an adaptive and detailed explanation of the Ladder of Feedback from Daniel Wilson and Ron Ritchhart, PZ.
Project Zero
Find the latest news from Project Zero research projects and wonderful resources for teaching and learning.
PZ San Francisco Sched.org Site
Find details about the PZ SF schedule and speakers.
Thinking Routines
Find details and instructions for using many of the Project Zero Thinking Routines.
Denise Coffin
Denise Coffin is a kindergarten teacher at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. She has been using iPads in kindergarten for four years as part of a classroom culture of thinking, creating, and problem solving. She currently writes for the blog "iPad Adventures at Lower School" and has presented at the Connections Conference 2012 and 2013 in Washington, DC, at the Lausanne Learning Institute 2012 on pedagogy and iPads, at ETT2012: EdTech Teacher iPad Summit USA, and at the CASIE Project Zero Perspectives Conference (Harvard Graduate School of Education) in 2014. She presented an interactive making and documenting course at iPadpalooza 2014. Denise was a contributor to the DC Project Zero 2013 Looking at Student and Teacher Thinking program at Sidwell Friends School, Washington DC. She served as a fellow at Project Zero Classroom Institute 2014 and as a Learning Group Leader at the Washington International School Summer Institute for Teachers (WISSIT) 2014.
Email: coffind@sidwell.edu
Website: Teamcoffin.blogspot.com
Twitter: @teamcoffin