Approaches,+Programs+and+Strategies

Class SAS Suggested Lessons:

Conducting an Experiment: []

The lesson is Inner Planets and Modeling the Solar System: [].

Exploring Bias and Stereotypes across Texts []

Creating Good Money Habits [] [|Financial Literacy] Science and Writing - Food Webs []

Graphical Representation of Data and the Measures of Central Tendency []

Graphical Representation of Data and the Measures of Central Tendency. The link is provided: [].

Career Exploration, since this is a unit in our Middle School Computer curriculum. [].

This page is 8th grade math content about Measurement; //distance, conversions, and applications// []

//Exploring Bias and Stereotypes Across Texts//: []

Via the pdesas.org website, I found Pitch Perfect Interactive. This website would integrate technology and history for an interesting Introduction to Music lesson. [] []

=Unobtrusive Interventions - School-wide Positive Behavioral Support Program= [|Intoduction to Positive Ways to Intervening Challenging Behavior] [] Responding to Misbehavior



=Cross-Curricular Connections= [] []

Calculating Surface Area and Volume in the Real World. [|Distance and Measurement] [|Tesselations] =Questioning Strategies=

[|Teaching Metacognition] Weimer, M. (2012). Teaching metacognition to improve student learning. //Faculty focus//, Retrieved from http://ebm.facultyfocusemail.com/c/tag/hBQkSFdB8X3cvB8uv8uAAAguMdE/doc.html?t_params=EMAIL=romo406%

[|Promoting understanding] Weimer, M. (2012, July 18). //Do your students understand the material, or just memorize and forget?//. Retrieved from [- Faculty Focus Update]

Farewell, Lecture?

Mazur, E. (2009, January 02). Farewell, lecture?. //Science//, //323//(5910), 50-51. Retrieved from []

Effective Questioning

 * It's the question not the verb...**
 * Depth of Knowledge is not determined by the verb, but by the context**
 * in which the verb is used and the depth of thinking required.**

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What effective ways can you use to help students solve problems?
[|Depth of Knowledge Levels]

[|Questioning Strategies] Olvera, G. W., & alkup, J. R. (2010, April 13). //Questioning strategies for teaching cognitively rigous curricula//. Retrieved from []

Welty, W.M. "[|Three Ways to Ask Better Questions in the Classroom]." //Faculty Focus,// June 2012 Welty, W. M. "Discussion Method Teaching: How to Make it Work." //Change//, July-August 1989, pp. 40-49.

Engaging Learners
[|Instructional Strategies for Engaging Learners] [|Stuck in the Middle] [|Using Positive Student Engagement to Increase Student Achievement] - Anita Archer

=[|Sustainability Workshops]= The Sustainability Workshop is designed around three simple principles:
 * Put the work first At the Workshop, authentic problems drive and define the curriculum, and dictate what specific knowledge and skills students need to develop.
 * Trust students to make decisions
 * Make the most out of failure

The Sustainability Workshop featured on CNN's [|The Next List]

=June 2012= Updated March 2014 [|Questions to ponder before you flip.] [|Tools to help Flip the Classroom]

[|NPR Report on the Flipped Classroom]
=[|The Flipped Classroom Model]= An overview of the "Flipped Classroom."

[|The Flipped Classroom - Myths vs Reality]
Part 1 What it is and What it isn't

[|Vodcasting and the Flipped Classroom]
= = =[|The Flipped Classroom]= Flipped classrooms use technology—online video instruction, laptops, DVDs of lessons—to reverse what students have traditionally done in class and at home to learn. Listening to lectures becomes the homework assignment so teachers can provide more one-on-one attention in class and students can work at their own pace or with other students.

=November 2011=

Wikis to support [|Project-Based Projects] Wikis eportfolios

=October= A different kind of [|ELMO]

www.educationnation.com Education Nation is a nationally broadcast, in-depth conversation about improving education in America. During an interactive summit on Rockefeller Plaza, parents, teachers and students will meet with leaders in politics, business and technology to explore the challenges and opportunities in education...
 * Summit**

**Lesson Study**

 * [|What is Lesson Study?]

Professional Development in Lesson Study:
 * PaTTAN inservice [|Algebra Lesson Study][[file:Secondary_Math_Brochure_FICCA.pdf]]

=September= =ipods/ipads in schools= Do you use smartphones or ipods/ipads in your classroom? Teacher develops a math app - article [|App for that] [|ipods/ipads in the classroom] [|HMH Publisher - Product]

August
=Math Programs and Approaches= Please add your thoughts and experiences regarding the following math programs and approaches. Also, please add any other programs or approaches with which you have used [|Saxon Math] Pros Follows Gagne's Steps of Effective Instruction - [] [] Cons

[|Everyday Mathematics] Pros Cons

[|Whole Brain Teaching - Power Teaching]

[|Cooperative Learning] Success for All - [|Power Teaching - Math] [|MathQuest - Clickers in Math] [|Three Approaches to Teaching Mathematics]

Audio Recording of Steve Leinwand's math presentation at NCSM.
[|Audio Recording/Podcast Episode 5] Practical, Research-Based Instructional Strategies Steve Leinwand NCSM 29 June 07 PA Governor's Institute 9 July 07 Major Points: In active, questioning and thinking classes:

� Incorporate on-going cumulative review

� Develop "Literal to inferential" to evaluative comprehension

� Create a "math" language-rich classroom

� Draw pictures, graphs, charts, &/or make models to create mental images

� Embed math into contexts - real world problems

� Ask WHY