You can either choose to have students complete the survey or use this activity for
class discussion purposes.
Not exact matches
Activities include: - reminder of assessment objectives (new spec) and mark schemes; -
Discussion of articles, their purpose and who writes / reads them; - Mind - mapping class ideas to structure their own writing; - Model paragraphs - with discussion prompt for how to improve them; - Peer and self - assessm
Discussion of articles, their
purpose and who writes / reads them; - Mind - mapping
class ideas to structure their own writing; - Model paragraphs - with
discussion prompt for how to improve them; - Peer and self - assessm
discussion prompt for how to improve them; - Peer and self - assessment grids.
Activities include: - reminder of assessment objectives (new spec) and mark schemes; -
Discussion of reports, their
purpose and who writes / reads them; - Labelling activity for how to format a report; - Correctional exercise (starter) for improving punctuation and formality of sentences; - Mind - mapping
class ideas to structure their own writing; - Model paragraphs; - Peer and self - assessment grids.
If students are familiar with socratic seminars, these could serve a similar
purpose to the fishbowl
discussion or could be used periodically during Literature Circles as a way to re-establish
class norms and debrief difficult texts and issues as a
class and with increased teacher presence.
For instance, mathematics teacher Joseph Assof's
purpose for one day included goals for content (to use our understanding of linear functions as a foundation for mathematical modeling with average rate of change), language (to use familiar terms to build greater understanding of rates of change), and social learning (to enrich our lesson by participating in whole -
class discussions).
Purpose: Use
class discussion and problem solving skills to envision solutions to topical conflicts.
The
purpose is that they be read prior to the topic being covered in
class so that some knowledge is brought to the
discussion not just opinion (there is a significant difference between an informed opinion and merely «an opinion»).