Summer+Training+Sessions

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 * Lesson Design: Differentiation - Elementary Choice 1 (Christa):**
 * Teachers can differentiate content (what is taught), process (how it is taught), and product (students' demonstration of understanding)
 * There are three different ways to group students when differentiating instruction: differentiating by interest (what interests the student), differentiating by learning preferences (how they learn best), and tiering differentiated instruction (the students' readiness to learn a particular concept).
 * I have three different articles about the above mentioned differentiation models. Let me know if you want to read them. Fascinating stuff!
 * Bottom line: to differentiate effectively you have to know your students! We need to know their interests, how they learn best (learning style), and how they show their understanding (multiple intelligences - offering choice when demonstrating understanding).
 * The Power of Questioning (Christa):**
 * This session was geared more towards questioning and scientific inquiry, but it was good and applied to all content areas.
 * Our questioning techniques should spur on inquiry in our students.
 * Questioning has to be planned for (before, during, and after a lesson).
 * Questioning has to allow for the appropriate "wait time". (We read a very interesting article on "wait time" if you would like to read it.)
 * I also have a page with questioning stems to use before, during, and after a lesson. If you want a copy, just let me know.
 * Elementary Social Studies: A Path to Integration (Christa):**
 * Social Studies Writing Team meet this summer and created EUS for 3rd grade!!!
 * They integrated Social Studies with the six Reading Strategies that Proficient Readers Use (from Stephanie Harvey, author of __Strategies That Work__), which includes: making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, determining importance, and synthesizing.
 * The new EUS should be up on the web soon, but I got a sneak peak and have a copies if you want it! For now here's a look at the Year at a Glance.
 * [[file:3rd_grade_social_studies_year_at_a_glance.doc]]