This month, keep asking questions! Be ANALYTICAL, but be PRACTICAL, too.
How does that work?
ANALYTICAL:
- · Keep asking questions!
- · Have students ask questions!
- · Investigate!
- · Use “Words of the Week”, numbers 7- 11 and 13-16 to jump start analytical thought:
o 7- Cause /
Effect
o 8- Because
o 9- Compare
(and contrast)
o 10- Classify
o 11- Differentiate
o 13- Revise
o 14- Edit
o 15- Modify
o 16- Analyze
PRACTICAL:
There are
many ways to make school learning more PRACTICAL!
Our students are bombarded daily with all kinds of
information, both old and new. They need
to learn to connect much of this info to their own lives, by teachers providing
many opportunities for:
- 1. Making text connections
a.
To other texts
b.
To self
c.
To the world (local
/ global)
- 2. Real world assignments (designed by teacher to help make useful connections)
- 3. Asking questions to make practical connections: “How would this work in my home? Neighborhood? Town? State? Country?”
- 4. Guest Speaker experts to speak on current topics…
- 5. Find more here:
- and here:
- and here:
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