These work samples were produced by students for a virtual oral math assessment. Students shared this work with their teacher virtually and explained their thinking orally to demonstrate mastery.
This session is focused on the basic supports needed for remote learning: strategic design and supports for effective implementation. Strategic design includes understanding and leveraging various learning modalities (asynchronous, synchronous, digital, and analog) to build a high-quality learning experience for all students. Effective implementation covers the building blocks to engage students effectively, including an overview of key remote instruction quality drivers, setting up comprehensive student development and social and emotional learning supports, and structures and routines to ensure students are successful as independent learners.
Additional resource: The following video provides additional support and framing to accompany this session that can be used to push your own learning or engage others in this work.
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This website shares information around creating a “Grammar Wall” with children, along with ideas on how to make the activity colorful, age-appropriate, and content-focused.
The teacher models a skill or strategy for students using a gradual release method that follows the pattern: “I do, we do, you do.” The teacher uses a variety of instructional methods while thinking aloud and explicitly modeling a skill or strategy for students. Then, the teacher models the strategy alongside the students before allowing them to work independently.
This article from the The Teacher Toolkit describes a Know-Wonder-Learn (KWL) Chart and how this structure can be used to identify prior knowledge, build in opportunities for inquiry, and support student learning and comprehension.
Language Warm-Ups use receptive and productive language tasks including “repeat-after-me” activities, minimal pairs, phoneme identification, numbers pronunciation, rhythm drills, and intonation exercises using tools such as mirrors and phonics phones.
This set of cards provides students with sentence stems to use during classroom conversations. Educators can print off this document to create tangible cards for students to reference. Some teachers laminate the deck and hang it from a hook in the classroom so students can easily access the material. These cards can also be printed in multiple colors to allow more strategic use during daily activities.
This website maps out seven reasons to use interactive notebooks in an engaging and translatable manner. Interactive notebooks may help teach students to synthesize their thoughts, take ownership of their learning, and even build communication between teachers and families.
This worksheet maps out one approach to building vocabulary frame flashcards. This resource can be printed as-is or adapted to suit various ages and content areas.
In this video installment of IgnitED Research, a series that aims to build stronger connections between learning science and instructional practice, we look at prior knowledge and its uses in maximizing learning.
