As I have been reading our text, Classroom Instruction that Works I have been intrigued at how many of the strategies are simplistic in nature. For my first Pre-seminar lesson I have chosen to use the strategy of nonlinguistic representation. In short this strategy uses imagery to help the student "dual-code" the information that they are hearing in class. For my lesson I used the opportunity to teach this form of coding by modeling it to my class using examples from their writings to fill in the bubbles. Then as a class we created a spider web by identifying examples for the state of Utah with the five themes of geography. For independent practice students created their own spider webs using the five themes of geography to describe the county in which they live. I have attached an image of my lesson plan and the outline of the spider web I used to initially teach the concept.
After completing this lesson I found that students who struggle taking traditional notes found it easier to identify key elements of instruction that they could organize and see how they fit in relationship to each other. One of the reasons I think this works is because students can use one word or keywords to fill in the circles on the web.
ReplyDeleteTerry, could I get a copy of your notes and things you created to help your students? I think I might be able to use something like this too. Thanks!
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