Dig deeper is a powerful, intensive 2 day workshop on using the digging technique. As many states move to something akin to national standards in literacy and mathematics, books on the topic are in high demand. What does it really mean for students to be college and career ready. Deeper teaching happens when we have deeper teachers. Concentrate on understanding the impact teaching is having in the school, and focus the efforts of all in the school on improving the quality of teaching and learning.
In this new edition of teaching students to dig deeper, ben johnson identifies the ten attributes students need for success, according to key research, the college. So fellow teachers, lets soak ourselves in the truths of the gospel and the word. Dig deeper is written out of the conviction that there is a right way to understand the bible and a wrong way, and the authors show us how to read it correctly. Developing your instructional leadership skills will help in advancing highquality teaching and learning. In this class, you will have an opportunity to gain an indepth and deeper understanding of one of. Take your first thesis and ask yourself, how can i make this better. Teachers can use these progressions along with regular classroom formative.
They have to not only understand the concept, but infer it, as well as connect it. Go slow to dig deeper into text office of teaching and. Although the toolkit provides some fundamental sel tools and information, those ho ant to dig deeper into sel should begin orking on a district. Given the abundance of scholarly literature on how to teach critical thinking skills, it would seem that there are many theorists who would answer, yes. Productive classroom discussionsthose that enable students to invent, create, imagine, take risks, and dig for deeper meaningscan only take place in a climate in which students feel safe to offer their ideas. A model for teaching critical thinking by marnice k. Photos, logos, and publications displayed on this site are excepted from this license, except where noted. In order to thrive beyond high school, students must become. Helps students dig deeper into the text, experience shifts in understanding and gain new insights from their peers. Notice and note helps students build awareness that authors use signposts. Teaching reading through content is not teaching phonics or.
While one text may provide foundational content knowledge, another may offer connections between linked concepts. Department of educations national education technology plans renewed focus on the promise of personalized learning. Kinetic, potential, radiant, mechanical, light, electrical, sound and solar. Ben johnson what does it really mean for students to be college and career ready. Teaching resources for talking with teens about suicide. Using a routine like claim, evidence, and reasoning requires students to dig deeper in their responses. Analytical thinking, and critical thinking are often lumped together with that other higherorder thinking skill hots known as problemsolving. Knowing how to talk about suicide is an important topic in and of itself, according to laura mayer, prs crisislink director. This work, deeper teaching, is licensed under a creative commons attribution 3. Go slow to dig deeper before we ask students at any grade level to deeply analyze a text with higher order thinking questions hotqs, we must first give the time to process the text and understand the gist of the information that the author is conveying. In this new edition of teaching students to dig deeper, ben johnson identifies the ten attributes students need for success, according to key research, the college board, the act, and rigorous state standards. I use notice and note in teaching my student annotating strategies.
This important new book identifies the skills and qualities students need, based on the common core state standards, to be really ready for college and careers. Deep learning promotes the qualities children need for success by building complex understanding and meaning rather than focusing on the learning of. Deeper learning through questioning lincs us department of. This timely and accessible resource reveals how rethinking school curriculum and teaching for deeper knowledge transfer can help students take control of their own learning. She and others in the mental health field have had training.
This acclaimed book by benjamin johnson is available at in several formats for your ereader. My students have struggled with trying to find character traits that are not the obvious. Here are our favorite tips for teaching critical thinking skills, adapted from mentoring minds critical thinking strategies guide, that help kids solve problems by going beyond the obvious response 1. In an excerpt from his new book, teaching students to dig deeper. I often have my students brainstorm, but i have never thought of adding this additional challenge once they are finished. The common core in action, ben johnson provides teachers with a better understanding of the nature of the advanced thinking. Building on twenty years of teaching language arts, kelly gallagher, author of reading reasons, shows how students can be taught to successfully read a broad range of challenging and difficult texts with deeper levels of comprehension. The common core in action, that explains the differences in cognitive activities we commonly call higherorder thinking. Students are thus provided with multiple resources that allow them to dig deeper in terms of content. Four ways to dig deeper with the reading strategies book.
Teded is a lesson creator platform that allows you to structure an assignment around a video and assess students engagement with the material. In deeper reading, kelly shares effective, classroomtested strategies that enable your students to. The lesson format consists of a lesson title, a written introduction lets begin, a series of multiple choice or openended questions think, a place for additional resources to encourage further exploration dig deeper. The major impetus in investigating what learners do. Notice and note is a wellknown and widelyused closed reading strategy that helps students gain a better understanding of key elements in nonfictional text. Then, lets invite others to the fountain of living water offered freely by our master teacher whose life and death changes everything. Teaching reading in the content areas all means all. In this new edition of teaching students to dig deeper, ben johnson identifies the ten. An opportunity to guide practice or an exercise in futility. This time, students dig a little deeper, rereading a paragraph or meaty chunk, focusing on text features, organizational patterns, and content vocabulary the author included. Hop on over to youtube and search the reading strategies book or just click here to see videos about the book and of jennifer serravallo conferring with students. I often write dig deeper in the margins of student essays. Written by elliott seif as i indicated in my first commentary on deep learning, deep learning knowledge, abilities and competencies are important for living, working and being a good citizen in a 21stcentury world.
I am an ardent supporter of the use of technology as tools to think with. The common core in action, by ben johnson, from which the infographic is adapted. Add a checkin to verify that students understand the learning agendaexpectation sequence learning materials and activities to create a 04 learning experience put the learning in a predictable pattern or sequence use examples like, get ready, get set, go and re. I created this little addition to use with my interactive reading notebook to help my students dig deeper into character traits and to use dialogue, actions, feelings, and thoughts of the character. Its essentially having students use complex ways to really dig deeper and think about what they are learning. I am the author of teaching students to dig deeper, a collegereadiness book for students, parents, and teachers. The companion text set idea we are proposing is designed. This fact sheet focuses on both teacher questioning and student self questioning. See more ideas about spy party, dinosaurs preschool and detective party.
The common core in action this important new book identifies the skills and qualities students need. Energy task cards the 32 energy task cards have students identifying 8 different types of energy and answering questions that dig deeper into the concept of energy. Teaching strategies to develop higherlevel thinking. In teaching for deeper learning, renowned educators and bestselling authors jay mctighe and harvey f. Successful teachers draw upon multiple sources of data about student learning.
Far too often, our students attain only a superficial level of knowledge that fails to prepare them for deeper challenges in school and beyond. Providing a wealth of simple, researchbased strategies for teaching reading and writing, this book is designed for each chapter to be accessible to teachers, tutors, parents, and paraprofessionals. Nov 9, 2019 explore jenb111s board summer reading 2020. And they understand how best to use this information to improve instruction. I am a career educator with recent experience on the campus and district office levels. Teachers can create such a climate by being mindful of the essential conditions of interactive teaching. Pdf how deeper learning can create a new vision for teaching.
If students are reading a novel, they would basically take on the role of a character from that book, then they would take on questions from their peers. Ten essential skills for college and career readiness. Dig deeper offers sixteen tools readers can use to get to the bottom of any bible passage and discover its intended meaning. I am including an excerpt from my new book, teaching students to dig deeper. Highlighters australian institute for teaching and. From july 2011 through july 20 the faculty worked with 41 graduate students who were. C thinking routines useful for digging deeper into ideas usually used in.
Seek support and training to develop the skills required in the role. Teaching students to dig deeper engage their minds. I am an advocate of studentdirected learning in all its forms. The common core in action, ben johnson provides teachers with a better. Effective classroom discussions educational leadership. The hot seat teaching strategy helps students dig deeper into a novel or topic that they are currently studying. We decided to dig deeper and asked the teachers to write a teaching philosophy narrative as part. Teaching students to dig deeper by ben johnson overdrive. By educating themselves about the effective use of data, leadership teams can help build these capacities in their staffs. With discussion magnifying and confirming readers critical engagement with texts, fisher, frey, and lapp s teaching students to read like detectives moves our field forward to the next level where the impact and influence of the common core state standards challenge teachers and students to interact with texts in deeper, more complex ways. Examples show how each tool helps readers discover. These skills have students use higherlevel thinking instead of lowerorder thinking, where students just memorize facts. Dig into mining is an interactive program for grades 68 that spotlights the value and uses of transition metals including copper, gold and molybdenum and fosters a deeper understanding of the mining industry by equipping educators, students and families with dynamic resources including a virtual field trip, interactive digital learning tools and career exploration activities. Do not be satisfied with the first thesis which comes to mind.
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