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5 Fantastic Ideas for Collaboration Projects

…As part of the solution development process, students can interview people who are most impacted by the problem and those in positions to implement solutions. They can also research the pathways taken by ordinary citizens to turn ideas for solutions into reality. Making it all Work Any kind of collaboration can be full of potential pitfalls. Our tips for solving common cooperative learning problems can help. Marisa Thompson (who shared the retrospective video idea) wrote an article that offers tips from students on designing collaborative activities that work. PBLWorks has a great set of free collaboration rubrics that outline specific…

How to Use ChatGPT as an Example Machine

…1. Establish criteria: Think about the elements that define a strong example of the thing you want kids to learn about (You can draw from your rubrics or final assignments to do this). 2. Prompt: Prompt ChatGPT to create an example of whatever concept, process, or phenomena you are trying to teach. 3. Review and adapt: Review the bot’s output and adapt it as you see fit. 4. Prompt for contrasting cases: Prompt it to create several non-examples, incorrect examples, or ambiguous examples. These are your contrasting cases. 5. Review and adapt: Review the outputs again and adapt them as…

Episode 126: Student-Written Graphic Novels

…studied the devices, it, it does get easier. MILLER: Right, right. Yeah. I mean to grade them I was essentially doing like a hundred close readings of, of all the, you know, with over a hundred students. So, but you’re right, no. It does. You do develop a fluency with that. GONZALEZ: Yeah. MILLER: Through teaching it and studying it with your students. GONZALEZ: So we are going to be sharing all of this stuff over on the website too, so people can see examples of your students’ panels and some of the actual sort of rubrics and, and the…

Small Changes to Make Your Classroom More Neurodiversity-Affirming

…how we provide instructions and give the opportunity for students to ask clarifying questions. Let’s be really direct as much as we possibly can and tell them this is what it will look like when it’s done or this is what I’m expecting or here’s the rubric I’m using. Providing instructions in multiple ways, showing exemplars of what things can look like, giving rubrics, giving checklists, all of those handy helper kinds of things are part of that being explicit because it also recognizes the fact that not everybody’s processing information verbally, and not everybody’s processing information in written form….

Episode 243 Transcript

…ton to our students. I mean, it matters to me as an adult. Why am I doing this, right? GONZALEZ: Yes, yes. MORIN: I tend to know why I’m doing what I’m doing. GONZALEZ: Right. MORIN: Right? And I tend to know how to do it, and if I don’t, I can find instructions, right? GONZALEZ: Yes. MORIN: And so I think providing instructions in multiple ways, showing exemplars of what things can look like. GONZALEZ: Yes. MORIN: Right? Giving rubrics, giving checklists, all of those handy helper kinds of things are part of that being explicit. Because it also…

Build a Collaborative Classroom with Microsoft Teams

…Excel, and OneNote are built right into the platform, so you can create with these tools and assign students to do the same. Create, save, and use rubrics to assess student work: The rubric builder is customizable and allows users to add written feedback and go back and adjust a score later. (Microsoft is also working on adding single-point rubric capabilities to the tool!) With the rubric feature in Teams, you can create robust rubrics, use them to assess student work, and save them to reuse or adapt for other assignments. App Integrations I love this feature: When you…

A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing

…try some or all of these techniques next time. I think you’ll find that all of your students have some pretty interesting stories to tell. Helping them tell their stories well is a gift that will serve them for many years after they leave your classroom. ♦ Want this unit ready-made? If you’re a writing teacher in grades 7-12 and you’d like a classroom-ready unit like the one described above, including slideshow mini-lessons on 14 areas of narrative craft, a sample narrative piece, editable rubrics, and other supplemental materials to guide students through every stage of the process, take a look…

How HyperDocs Can Transform Your Teaching

Listen to my interview with Lisa Highfill, Kelly Hilton, and Sarah Landis, authors of The HyperDoc Handbook (transcript): In many classrooms, a learning cycle looks something like this: First, we write plans for a series of lessons and a final assessment. We gather materials—handouts, websites, rubrics, video clips. Then we teach the lessons one at a time, to the whole class, at the same pace, distributing materials as needed. Finally, we end with a project, test, or other assessment. It’s a very teacher-directed model, which can limit learning in a number of ways: Students don’t feel much ownership for their…

What’s Going on Here? How to Have a Trouble Huddle with Students

…immediate needs. We experienced a brief but effective troubleshooting huddle—“Trouble Huddle” for short. What is a Trouble Huddle? Sometimes when we are in the midst of teaching, we can lose sight of what’s going on with our students even when we’re looking right at them. Armed with our carefully crafted lesson plans, skill rubrics, tech tools and a growth mindset to beat the band, we can often teach right past our students: delivering the content, yet missing the learning. In my own elementary physical education classes, it is my students who consistently remind me that the content (skills, patterns, understandings)…