Beyond Question Stems: Critical Thinking in the 21st Century Classroom
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I developed and delivered this presentation for South Mebane Elementary School in Alamance County. The focus was higher order thinking and critical thinking skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking. Language, Comprehension and Vocabulary standards were highlighted from the Common Core with a special emphasis on the 3 shifts of the Common Core for ELA.
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- 1. Beyond question stems: Best Practices for Critical Thinking in the 21st Century Classroom South Mebane Elementary September 19, 2012 by Jennifer Jones helloliteracy.blogspot.com helloliteracy@gmail.com
- 11. Virtual Annotation (aka Parking Lot) www.todaysmeet.com/smeseptember19
- 12. Setting The stage for thinking deeply & critically flickr by roujo
- 13. The Guided Reading Table
- 14. Strategy #2 Describe Guided Reading as a Session Rather than a Lesson • Teacher support enables students to problem-solve, connect and discover • Session is conversational in format • (K-2)Students read a lot (2-5) Students talk a lot
- 15. Strategy #15 Engage All Students, Regardless of Instructional Reading Level, in Thinking Deeply About Story •Beyond a series of questions •Beyond “Today I want you to make a prediction.” •Beyond story retelling •Beyond details of the reading process but active in all of it •Meaning at the text level
- 16. The Language of Teaching Comprehension Instruction Deeply Little Questions Big Questions What houses did How are the pigs’ each pig build? houses different? Why did the writer have the third pig build the brick house instead of the second pig? What did the wolf say Why did the wolf say before he blew down the same thing at the houses? each house? What happens at the What did the pigs beginning, middle learn from their and end of the story? experience?
- 17. A Where is Your Level of Thinking? Are Your Kids There?
- 18. Lower vs. Higher Level Thinking the answer is already known
- 21. ….
- 30. First We must be Critical Thinkers… Form an opinion and justify it! Image: http://www.1vigor.com/brain-power/Clear-Thinking/index.html
- 33. Science Notebooks… …increase CRITICAL THINKING because students reflect on their learning and their thinking.
- 35. 4th Grade Sample Items National Assessments http://www.k12.wa.us/SMARTER/Resources.aspx
- 36. Daily Analogies Analogy Poster “Mrs. Jones, this is hard!” “I don’t know.”
- 37. Schoolwide Vocabulary instruction Tier 2 & Tier 3 Words
- 38. Urgency with Word Learning
- 39. Creating a Sense of Urgency & the Relationship between Words & Learning
- 40. Making Inferences with… Picture of the Day
- 41. You Tube ***S**Informational Text I *
- 42. Problem-Solvers in a Student Centered Classroom Problem Solving Framework
- 43. First …before We must be Critical We can be Critical Thinkers… Readers. You don’t have to believe everything you read in a book, you have the right to question it and judge for the reasons for yourself. Image: 10englishcm.wikispaces.com
- 44. Literary Text Or Informational Text So What?
- 45. Critical Reading… …is a way of looking at a book and analyzing what the author is saying and the methods the author [and illustrator] are using to communicate a message or idea. Your analysis is complete when you have formed your own interpretations of the author’s intentions.
- 47. Accountable Talk So What? Images: www.julieballew.com
- 48. Critical Read-Aloud Think-Aloud
- 49. Character Analysis With Evidence Images: www.julieballew.com
- 50. Evaluating Author’s Reasons & Word Choice Text Level 3/4 Text Level 4th/5th
- 51. Critically Responding to Reading
- 54. Sticky Thinking 3rd
- 55. Non-fiction Reading Shift Our Thinking from… “What do want kids to KNOW?” to “What do want kids to get out of it?” www.metro.co.uk Image: www.julieballew.com cwf-fcf.org BIG
- 56. Evaluating Non-Fiction Text with Two-Column Notes…all strategies at once
- 59. Planning & Assessing Critical Thinking
- 61. Cooperative Learning Short Term Book Clubs Long Term Book Clubs
- 63. Project Based Learning...Inquiry is part of the Process
- 64. Higher Level Thinking Independent Projects
- 65. Schoolwide Research Model for LMES – remixed by Leigh Pittman from the AGOPE & WISE research models
- 80. Thank You! This presentation has received rave reviews by the faculty of the three schools I have presented it to. Many folks said that they finally understood what was teaching the Common Core way meant. My own principal called me a “rock star.” If your school or a school you know of, is interested in or could use some help with this I'd be more then willing to travel and present to the faculty and staff. Please contact me and we can figure out transportation and time compensation expenses. I can contacted at helloliteracy@gmail.com References available upon request.