Wednesday, June 12, 2019
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Beyond the VENN Diagram...the right chart for the job
Student Engagement and Achievement - We never have enough time, right?
So...which strategies yield the most "bang for our buck!"
Challenge: create pie-chart graph of the amount of time you and your students spend on teaching and learning using these strategies - invite an intern from a local university ed program to help collect data or take notes when observing your class for a day, or if in secondary, challenge your department to have students collect data on each strategy over two weeks time
do this as a grade level, or as a department
According Classroom Instruction That Works Marzano identifies 9 Strategies highly-yield strategies for teaching and learning in order:
1 - Identifying similarities and differences.
2 - Summarizing and note taking.
3 - Reinforcing effort and providing recognition.
4 - Homework and practice.
5 - Non-linguistic representations.
6 - Cooperative learning.
7 - Setting objectives and providing feedback
8 - Generating and testing hypotheses
Let's start with #1. According to research, this strategy has a 43% efficacy in the classroom.
I'm struggling to find good examples of assessments to help identify students' skills, knowledge and understanding of collecting, organizing/constructing, and interpreting data. If you have resources or created useful tools to assess and diagnose please share and keep us learning. I am reluctant to jump to "teaching" without learning more about individual students and what they already know, can do, and understand but here we go. I trust you know you learners and what they need next:
To what extent are your students able to identify similarities and differences and to what extent are they able to creating visual representations of this knowledge and share it with others?
Here are some resources
High Yield Strategies
Comparison Marix
Comparison Matrix
To create more independence, I don't believe we should copy and hand-out charts to students. From day one, as soon as they can hold a pencil, they should be drawing their own charts. Discussions should be around, what is the best way to communicate what we know? It may be a VENN Diagram but it could also be pictographs or a labeled photo with hot buttons that link to relevant data. It could be a flower with each petal representing a different element needed for plant growth or success in school.
What are your favorite charts and why?
Students should also struggle with choosing the right chart for the job. Here are a lot of different charts and purposes for their use. THis is high level but just like crossing a street, we start teaching babies to cross streets when they are born and we talk about waiting at the light, looking both ways, and then as a toddler, we hold their hands, etc. We don't just send them to the store alone at 5 years old, right? Model, model, model and have them practice on their own.
When the find data or create a data set, ask them, which chart would be good to use to communicate this data to parents, students, teachers, etc. Is there a more creative way to chart this information? Could we use a picture of a house to represent this data? Or a car? Or a gallery wall of frames?
At the beginning of the year, have students work in teams and create and explain posters with developmentally appropriate charts and their purposes that you will use throughout the year. Have them practice drawing these charts in their journal or process notebook in the back, just as you would create a glossary of important terms.
Become a better consumer, user, and communicator in terms of data. To what extent can you create a chart using excel or google spreadsheets? Why? What's their purpose? Beyond a table, pie, chart, or flowchart graph, what other visual representations do you normally use and interpret? Challenge yourself to use more in your class. Here are ideas:
Be sure to use, teach, and share visual learning and represent data outside of math classes or math hour. Show that it is an important tool for communicating and simplifying complex ideas.
So...which strategies yield the most "bang for our buck!"
Challenge: create pie-chart graph of the amount of time you and your students spend on teaching and learning using these strategies - invite an intern from a local university ed program to help collect data or take notes when observing your class for a day, or if in secondary, challenge your department to have students collect data on each strategy over two weeks time
do this as a grade level, or as a department
According Classroom Instruction That Works Marzano identifies 9 Strategies highly-yield strategies for teaching and learning in order:
1 - Identifying similarities and differences.
2 - Summarizing and note taking.
3 - Reinforcing effort and providing recognition.
4 - Homework and practice.
5 - Non-linguistic representations.
6 - Cooperative learning.
7 - Setting objectives and providing feedback
8 - Generating and testing hypotheses
Let's start with #1. According to research, this strategy has a 43% efficacy in the classroom.
I'm struggling to find good examples of assessments to help identify students' skills, knowledge and understanding of collecting, organizing/constructing, and interpreting data. If you have resources or created useful tools to assess and diagnose please share and keep us learning. I am reluctant to jump to "teaching" without learning more about individual students and what they already know, can do, and understand but here we go. I trust you know you learners and what they need next:
To what extent are your students able to identify similarities and differences and to what extent are they able to creating visual representations of this knowledge and share it with others?
Here are some resources
High Yield Strategies
Comparison Marix
Comparison Matrix
To create more independence, I don't believe we should copy and hand-out charts to students. From day one, as soon as they can hold a pencil, they should be drawing their own charts. Discussions should be around, what is the best way to communicate what we know? It may be a VENN Diagram but it could also be pictographs or a labeled photo with hot buttons that link to relevant data. It could be a flower with each petal representing a different element needed for plant growth or success in school.
What are your favorite charts and why?
Students should also struggle with choosing the right chart for the job. Here are a lot of different charts and purposes for their use. THis is high level but just like crossing a street, we start teaching babies to cross streets when they are born and we talk about waiting at the light, looking both ways, and then as a toddler, we hold their hands, etc. We don't just send them to the store alone at 5 years old, right? Model, model, model and have them practice on their own.
When the find data or create a data set, ask them, which chart would be good to use to communicate this data to parents, students, teachers, etc. Is there a more creative way to chart this information? Could we use a picture of a house to represent this data? Or a car? Or a gallery wall of frames?
At the beginning of the year, have students work in teams and create and explain posters with developmentally appropriate charts and their purposes that you will use throughout the year. Have them practice drawing these charts in their journal or process notebook in the back, just as you would create a glossary of important terms.
Become a better consumer, user, and communicator in terms of data. To what extent can you create a chart using excel or google spreadsheets? Why? What's their purpose? Beyond a table, pie, chart, or flowchart graph, what other visual representations do you normally use and interpret? Challenge yourself to use more in your class. Here are ideas:
Be sure to use, teach, and share visual learning and represent data outside of math classes or math hour. Show that it is an important tool for communicating and simplifying complex ideas.
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