Interested in student-driven classrooms? Join Dr. Nancy Sulla @nsulla (author of Students Taking Charge, Its Not What You Teach But How, Building Executive Function: The Missing Link to Student Achievement, and more) and educators from all over in #LATICchat on Thursday nights at 8pm ET. We hope to bring together a community of educators to share insights, stories, examples, pictures from their classrooms, and more. We welcome all educators to join; no need to be running a #LATIC classroom.
Writing is such an important skill ... the best skill development occurs in the context of purpose ... so let's talk about how #PBL brings about that purpose! #LATICchat is happening now!
A1) I believe when writing has a purpose ... communication to a real audience, including oneself in the case of journal writing, and a reason for that writing that connects to student interest and context ... you have a meaningful writing experience. #LATICchat
A1 rooted in a meaningful experience that requires students to synthesize from sources is what a meaningful writing experience can include. @David_V_Pagano has some great ideas on this!
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A1: Writing is intertwined throughout every part of our day. It’s not just words. We respond to text writing words and we respond to math problems writing equations. #LATICchat
A2) So many ways! Writing to formulate the problem; writing notes; writing ideas; writing solution explanations; writing to advocate for a solution. What am I missing folks? #LATICchat
A2 both @stacyl315 and @Ker912 have done an amazing job at having students explain their learning and justify their thoughts at the end of our problem based learning activities with what they call Lines of Learning (LoL). It is a great way for students to show thinking!#LATICchat
A4 at its base a writing for a final product from an ALU must come from a rubric. However, the importance of having students interact with experts, like @AnastaciaKelley did, allows for the writing to become authentic.
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A5 @SandersSMES we use a rubric that closely matches the rubric the state uses to grade student work. At the beginning of the year perhaps using an executive functioning rubric. #LATICchat
A5) Oh sure, you could reference rubrics for narrative writing, expository writing, and opinion/argumentative writing ... but what about ones for a science lab, interview questions, summarizing research, etc. #LATICchat
A1 A meaninful writing experience in the classroom is when students' feel the topic is meaningful to them and are excited to make it better and better #LATICchat
Great turnout and even after a long day, your colleagues were on fire with amazing ideas for designing a physical school building to promote the #LATIC paradigm shifts! If you have ideas to add, pass them on! #LATICchat
A3 I <3 kicking off writing with heart maps! It's a great getting-to-know them activity for the begin. of the yr and a reference for them to keep in writing folders for when they're stuck! Also, when we don't have time for "stories," jotting them down to share with me #LATICchat
A4 I've found that an authentic audience makes all the difference. From recording final pieces to share with family, sharing within our class, sharing with another class or even inviting special guests, they love to work hard to show off in the end! #LATICchat
A4 I've found that an authentic audience makes all the difference. From recording final pieces to share with family, sharing within our class, sharing with another class or even inviting special guests, they love to work hard to show off in the end! #LATICchat
I had a young man staying after school to revise his work complain about it to me ... I told him I wrote my book Students Taking Charge four times before I submitted it for publication. After a wow he put his head down to his paper and later said, "how about this?" #LATICchat
A7 Last year we had pen pals from another school district. It opened up dialogue for letter formatting, asking/answering questions, capitalization/punctuation and so much more. One S from last year wrote me a little letter and passed it to me in the hallway this year! #LATICchat
A8 I had a student when I student taught who would refuse to write. He loved technology and space so I showed him how to make a Prezi and we worked towards reading about space, taking notes with markers (color is more fun!) and creating a Prezi to share with the class #LATICchat
