Good morning! I’m so excited to learn with you today. Let’s start by introducing ourselves. What’s your name? Where are you from?
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Meredith joining from beautiful SW Florida. Today I am feeling peaceful. So glad all of you are here to join with @AmandaSopko our guest moderator to discuss "Supporting Struggling Learners" #BookCampPD
Hello! I'm so excited to be your guest moderator today! I teach 6th grade math, STEM, and Discovery (a course for our gifted kiddos). #BookCampPDhttps://t.co/Wacv3kMGHS
A1: inclusion in the classroom is valuing and accepting students as they are and provide a comfortable environment for them!
Family inclusions also imperative and THIS can happen outside the classroom #BookCampPD
A1: #BookCampPD I think classroom culture is just like school culture. Built on celebrating the strengths of all those involved. I like to laugh and have fun but also celebrate the work and individuality in the classroom.
Q2. How do you incorporate collaborative learning in your classroom? How can you use collaborative learning to help your students have a meaningful opportunity to practice communication skills? #BookCampPD
A1: I don't have a classroom, but do lots of push-in interventions. My greeting of all Ss (greeting R more important than we realize!), planning/preparedness of my lesson, interactions w/ & believing in all Ss impacts cultural tone. #BookCampPD
A1: #BookCampPD I think classroom culture is just like school culture. Built on celebrating the strengths of all those involved. I like to laugh and have fun but also celebrate the work and individuality in the classroom.
A2: Collaboration is a very normal part of our classroom. Students collaborate on G Suite products, peer feedback, and hands on activities. Collaboration and communication are life skills. The students need to know how to utilize each of these to a certain extent. #bookcamppd
Q2. How do you incorporate collaborative learning in your classroom? How can you use collaborative learning to help your students have a meaningful opportunity to practice communication skills? #BookCampPD
A2: Collaborative learning requires lots of preplanning in order to be effective!
I provided plenty of opportunities for collaboration and peer support
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A2 - I do a lot of matching activities - index cards that contain Qs and As, or Words and Definitions, etc. Each student gets one and they walk around the room seeking out the partner card. Makes them engage with each other, talk, get into small groups... #bookcamppd
A2: Collaboration is a very normal part of our classroom. Students collaborate on G Suite products, peer feedback, and hands on activities. Collaboration and communication are life skills. The students need to know how to utilize each of these to a certain extent. #bookcamppd
Q2. How do you incorporate collaborative learning in your classroom? How can you use collaborative learning to help your students have a meaningful opportunity to practice communication skills? #BookCampPD
A1b: Increased inclusivity this yr by using my Spanish-speaking skills to use (been taking classes 2 yrs). When new S came to our schl who was just learning Eng, I did SEL centers all in Spanish w/our bilingual Ss. SO much reciprocal learning & relationship building! #bookcamppd
I agree @JulieGB7 - greetings really are more important than we realize and help to set a positive and inclusive tone for the learning context! #BookCampPD
A2 Also, students sit in groups which allows them to collaborate on activities such as sorting 7 synonyms for "happy" from strongest to weakest meaning. Makes them discuss, work out discrepancies, come to agreement. We love to explore words. #bookcamppd
Envision collaborative practice in learning centers. Each center a different lens (Writing: read aloud, author, craft, idea study; Content: observation, primary sources, big idea) #BookCampPD
I have them do a lot of self-assessment of their own writing. A series of Qs guides them. They highlight and annotate their papers showing me where they did or did not include a skill (grammar, transitions, dialogue, etc). They share their work with others. #bookcamppd
A2: some of our collab. learn took place w/real-time practice. For SEL, share materials/ask politely, say thank u, fill buckets by complimenting, stop&reteach/prob solve if prob arises. collab. across settings&cross-curricularly helps reinforce carryover of skills! #BookCampPD
I truly believe that collaborative structures harness the strengths of all of our students. I use writing centers to launch each new writing unit of study, and use the same four types of centers over and over #BookCampPD#SSLearners
Q4. What strategy did you hear today, or have you read about, that you plan to incorporate into your classroom this fall? Give a shout out to the person who inspired you by tagging him/her in your response. #BookCampPD
I have them do a lot of self-assessment of their own writing. A series of Qs guides them. They highlight and annotate their papers showing me where they did or did not include a skill (grammar, transitions, dialogue, etc). They share their work with others. #bookcamppd
Thank you all for coming to this morning's chat. A special thanks to @AmandaSopko for moderating. You're a marvelous community of learners and I love the journey we are on. How will you share/teach other educators about what you have learned today? #BookCampPD
Thank you so much, @pattyvreilly for joining us today and sharing your thoughts! Also thank you for writing this fantastic book and sharing it with the world! #BookCampPD
Rethinking anchor charts: These anchor charts have too much information!
“Struggling learners can be easily overstimulated with visuals, verbal, and tactile information” #SupportingStrugglingLearners
Next Saturday's chat, on June 30th, the two educators who have responded to the most activities during the two weeks of our focus on "Supporting Struggling Learners" will select one of the remaining four books in our FAR - Friends and Reading. Badges are also shared! #BookCampPD
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A1c: Here's a pic of my 1st all Spanish SEL center this year. The reciprocal learning & relationship building that happened was awesome! Special thanks to our wonderful Ts @mrsmastracchio & @missmarino_ for switching up their center groups to help make this happen! #BookCampPD
Please join us next Saturday morning when @pattyvreilly author of "Supporting Struggling Learners" will join our chat. All of your tweets to Questions of the Day & other activities have been greatly appreciated. Please continue to share, read & respond to each other #BookCampPD
