In 5 - 10 minutes, you've just set up a simple system
for prompting students to submit work on time, and keep making progress with your course.
These are the kinds
of prompts students across the country are being presented with during the first round of Common Core testing this spring.
Very simply, the first
half prompts students to describe how the characters used their observation skills.
We will explore the processing hurdles as text complexity increases and how to
prompt students at difficulty.
The application
process prompted students to answer two essay questions explaining his / her specific interest and background in feline health and welfare, and their plans for future participation in feline medicine.
These are fantastic
for prompting students to start conversations with each other, especially for morning work, social skills groups etc..
The next time the class meets together, you might use the jigsaw teaching strategy to
prompt student discussion about the films in a small group setting.
During the discussion the teacher can support engagement and communication
by prompting students to clarify, elaborate, respond to comments, build on each others ideas, ask questions, and participate equitably.
With clear directions, this 4 step
activity prompts students to read, identify vocabulary words, define the words based on resources available to them (dictionaries, context clues, technology, etc.), and then share their identified words with other group mates.
Each
slide prompts students to recall an equation, rearrange equations and calculate unknown variables from a table.
Teachers who
prompt students through thoughtful questioning help their students develop analytical skills and deeper conceptual understanding.
Educators seeking to reform grading must combat five long - held traditions that stand as formidable obstacles to change: (1) Grades should provide the basis for differentiating students; (2) grade distributions should resemble a bell - shaped curve; (3) grades should be based on students» standing among classmates; (4) poor
grades prompt students to try harder; and (5) students should receive one grade for each subject or course.
Teachers did
n't prompt students to understand solutions conceptually as frequently or present challenging problems as often.
The Columbia case might not have generated the legal outcome Den Hollander was looking for, but it
did prompt student journalists to dig into the lawyer's background for clues that might help explain his anti-feminist legal crusade.
Reflective listening is verbally mirroring people's words and thoughts to help them understand better what they actually think or feel; it can
effectively prompt students toward «aha!»
One
sheet prompts students to consider how effectively they have covered the AOs and what else they need to do before the deadline.
For example, Private Watkins is a pretty likable guy, and he's also a poor farmer who does not own slaves, paradoxes that
usually prompt students to ask pointed and critical questions.
Therefore, teachers need to
continually prompt students to utilize the skills and the language they develop as a result of participating in these student - led discussions, so they transfer these skills to other classroom experiences.
Pages prompt students with questions to seek answers to, a chart to track the sources referenced, a few graphic organizers, and one of the two templates for writing a mini-book, (an 8 - page mini-book created out of one folded sheet of paper or a half-fold mini-book).
Create an
assignment prompting students to recognize formal written and verbal exchanges they face daily or in the future (e.g., applying to college, writing research papers, college entrance and job interviews).
The teacher rotates to help students with challenging language shifts and
prompts students refer to word lists.
Rehm said she thought the teacher was
prompting students too much, and the children weren't taking enough initiative.
The changes, however,
prompted Students Matter, the organization supporting the student plaintiffs in the Vergara trial, to withdraw its support for the bill, calling it «a mere shell of its former self.»
Schools compare these polished home essays (they should represent the student's best schoolwork) to the
essay prompt the students write in the ISEE or the SSAT.
Effective teachers make notes on what students do and do not understand, on what kinds of scaffolding and
prompts students need in order to read and retell the story, and on students» vocabulary comprehension and word use.
Academic and text books tend to be illegally copied more than fiction due to their high prices and the fact that students often only need them for a
term prompting student pirating networks, she added.
This question doesn't
just prompt students and readers to discuss the various themes of the book — it also asks them to evaluate the themes» effect on the world.
But Scott says the incident at Western is different because it was dealt with swiftly and has served to
prompt the students involved and some other student groups and campus leadership to get together to work on an education plan to launch in the New Year.
The teacher
then prompts the students to take deep breaths while also gently massaging the pressure point between their thumb and pointer finger, switching hands every 30 seconds.
As classes read through a segment of text, teachers stop to pose queries that
prompt student discussions leading to a deeper understanding of information in the text.
A 2nd grade
teacher prompts students to share with their partners how the water cycle works, using vocabulary they just learned (evaporate, vapor, condense, precipitate).