Powerful Classrooms: Generating Connectivity Across the Curriculum

As a college student, what did you authentically value about learning or about your experience of learning both in and out of the classroom setting?
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What do you thinkreally think your students value about learning today?

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Do you think there is a disconnect between what students value and what your institution values both in and out of the classroom setting?

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Create Dialog About Learning

All inclusive: everyone included in the dialog about learning: staff, students, administrators, facultyall contribute to core set of beliefs about learning at the institution and make recommendations about learning. High levels of expectation: intellectual curiosity as a prime value. Set pathways for learning and assess learning: broadly conduct dialog about results.
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Welcome to LINKS VI Classroom

Reading Apprenticeship
A partnership of expertise between the teacher and students, drawing on what content area teachers know and do as skilled disciplinebased readers and on learners unique and often underestimated strengths

Guiding Principles for Habits of Mind

Although beginning students are often not college-ready, their minds are not blank slates waiting to be written upon. Instead, each student brings to college a set of learning experiences, expectations, values and habits. These, in turn, influence what they attend to, questions they ask, choices they make, and the things they do, etc.

We must:
Create structures and practices that preclude poor choice-making. Intentionally incorporate habits of mind building into instruction and services. Adopt strategies that promote selfregulated learning along with content mastery. Deliver services that build self-efficacy and responsibility.

The California Acceleration Project

Studies have established that the more levels of remedial courses a student must take, the less likely the student is to ever complete college courses in English and Math. And without completing these gatekeeper courses, huge numbers of students never qualify for their longer-term educational goals.

We must examine the curricular sequences. Shorter developmental pathways & increased student access to college courses Backwards design and contextualization Just-in-time remediation as an alternative to front-loading

Invites readers to converse with text to explore content as well as individual reading process. Use sentence prompts as conversation guides.

Just as in a jigsaw puzzle, each piece--each student's part--is essential for the completion and full understanding of the final product. If each student's part is essential, then each student is essential; and that is precisely what makes this strategy so effective.

1. Identify who is in your Home group 2. Move to the location where the group # (on the top right corner of your article) is meeting 3. In groups of 4-6, discuss what you read 4. Return to your Home group 5. Teach each other your section of the article

Just like in Speed dating, this is a short period of time where you can learn insight as you critically discuss and analyze questions. Turn to the person sitting next to you to discuss your answers to the following questions.

Discuss level of reading in your class and your students interactions with required texts. Which of your classroom texts is ideal for trying the Talking to the Text strategy?

The Second Date

Discuss the collaborative reading activity you completed this morning. How did the collaboration extend or deepen your learning? How might similar collaborations in your classrooms extend or deepen your students learning?

The FINAL Date

Carol Dweck ends her article stating, Most of all, teach them that by taking on challenges, making mistakes, and putting forth effort, they are making themselves smarter. What is one strategy you can implement to help students internalize the value of challenges, mistakes, and/or effort, which in turn can help you create a more powerful classroom?

Reading Apprenticeship

Habits of Mind

Acceleration

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