Strategies for Challenging & Engaging Learners

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Strategies for Challenging & Engaging Learners by Mind Map: Strategies for Challenging & Engaging Learners

1. Portrait of A Graduate

1.1. Creating skills to handle for jobs/situations/problems that don't exist yet

1.2. Ethical & Global Citizen

1.3. Creative & Critical Thinker

1.4. Communicator

1.5. Collaborator

1.6. Goal Directed & Resilient Individual

1.7. Similar to the idea of 21st century skills

2. Socratic Seminar, Academic Conversations, Making Thinking Visible

2.1. Socratic Seminar

2.1.1. Student centered

2.1.2. Deeper Understandings

2.1.3. Reflecting, Collaborating, Reasoning, Thinking, Questioning

2.1.4. Scaffolding & Releasing

2.1.4.1. Questioning

2.1.4.2. Etiquette

2.1.4.3. Communicating

2.1.4.4. Debating

2.1.4.5. Listening

2.1.4.6. Stems to support

2.2. Academic Conversations

2.2.1. Meaningful and deep

2.2.2. All students can access

2.2.3. Specific things to look for Figure 1 Zwiers/Crawford

2.2.4. Scaffolding/Modeling

2.2.4.1. Stems/Place Mats

2.2.5. Safe Enviornment

2.3. Questions

2.3.1. Types

2.3.1.1. Leading

2.3.1.2. Guiding

2.3.1.3. Hook

2.3.1.4. Essential

2.3.2. Create Challenges

2.3.3. Bloom's Taxonomy

2.3.4. Four Question Straetgy

2.4. Making Thinking Visible

2.4.1. Concrete

2.4.2. Active LIstening

2.4.3. Authentic Questioning

2.4.4. Focus on learning

2.4.5. Clarify & facilitate

2.4.6. Model/Scaffold

2.5. Anchor Activities

2.5.1. Fast finishers

2.5.2. Ongoing

2.5.3. Independent/Autonomy

2.5.4. Meaningful

2.5.5. Cross Curricular

3. Student Centered Coaching

3.1. Teacher Reflection

3.2. Name & Notice

3.2.1. Timely

3.2.2. Intentional

3.2.3. Growth Mindset

3.2.4. Specific & Actionable

3.3. Get into the learning

3.4. Conferring

4. Concept Based Instruction Models

4.1. Inquiry Process

4.1.1. Connect & Explore

4.1.2. Transform

4.1.3. Explain

4.1.4. Brainstorm

4.1.5. Scaffold/Model/Explicit Teaching

4.1.6. Generating & Testing Hypothesis

4.2. Workshop Model For Complex Processes

4.2.1. Flipped Clasroom

4.2.2. Process Oriented

4.2.3. Mini Lesson & Practice

4.3. PBL

4.4. Personalized Learning

4.4.1. Making learning meaningful for themselves

4.4.2. choice

4.4.3. Learning pathways

4.5. Preconceptions/ understandings

5. SCAMPER / Creative Problem Solving

5.1. fluent and flexible thinking

5.2. creativity

5.3. elaborating

5.4. risk taking

5.5. motivating and engaging

5.6. Engineering Design Process

6. Math

6.1. Math Mindsets

6.1.1. Growth Mindset

6.1.2. Okay to fail

6.1.3. Mistakes are good

6.1.4. Coach yourself

6.1.5. Preserve

6.2. Positive Norms

6.3. What does a mathematician look like/sound like?

6.4. Meaningful questions/activities

6.5. Writing and talking about math

6.5.1. number talks

6.6. YouCubed

6.6.1. tasks/resources

7. Scaffolds & Supports

7.1. Claim-Support-Question

7.2. Routines

7.2.1. Instructional

7.2.2. Behavior Management

7.2.3. Interactional

7.2.4. Thinking

7.2.4.1. Visible Thinking Routines

7.2.4.1.1. Tools

7.2.4.1.2. Integrated into lessons

8. Re-evaluating & Revamping Our School Cultures

8.1. "What do you want the children you teach to be like as adults?" (Ritchart, p.16)

8.1.1. Portrait of a Graduate Skills

8.1.2. Growth Mindset

8.2. Current Culture: "...learning in schools is often boring, largely entails memorizing and repeating facts, rarely demands that students think, and is generally an isolated exercise." (Ritchart, p.27).

8.3. "We must send new messages about what learning is and how it happens." (Ritchart, p. 29).

8.4. Changing our mindset from "How?" to 'What if?"

8.4.1. Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset

8.4.1.1. Focusing on effort rather than ability

8.5. Making sure our students aren't just working and they are really learning deeply

8.5.1. No more teaching to the test

8.5.2. Distinguishing between understanding and knowledge

8.5.2.1. Teaching for Understanding Framework

8.5.2.1.1. Essential Standards, Learning Targets, I Can Statements, Performance Tasks, Feedback

8.5.2.2. Transfer and Application of Knowledge and Understandings

8.5.2.3. "What will I actually ask students to do with the skills and knowledge they are acquiring that will develop their understanding and push it forward?" (Ritchart, p. 51).

8.6. Fostering and Creating Independent Learners

8.7. Becoming Role Models for our students through our own failures, mistakes and learning

9. Critical & Creative Thinking Strategies

9.1. Decisions & Outcomes

9.1.1. Cause/Effect, Considering Various outcomes

9.2. Analogies

9.2.1. Relationships & Connections

9.3. Encapsulation

9.3.1. Synthesizing Information

9.4. Point of View

9.4.1. New Perspectives

9.5. Visualization

9.6. Plus, Minus, Interesting (PMI)

9.6.1. going beyond yes and no, new answers

9.7. Fluency, Originality, Flexiblity, Elaboration (FOFE)

9.7.1. going beyond the first and immediate answer we think of

9.8. Questioning

9.9. Mindmapping

10. Point of View/Perspectives

10.1. Jigsaw/Cooperative Learning

10.2. How To learn

10.2.1. Tug For Turth

10.2.2. Compass POints

10.2.3. Step Inside

10.2.4. True For Who

10.2.5. Debates

10.2.6. Literature

10.2.7. Circle of Viewpoints

10.3. Empathy

10.3.1. explicit teaching

10.3.2. Verb

10.3.3. Hoffman's Stages of Empathy

10.4. Think, Feel, Care

10.5. Debono's Thinking Hats

10.6. RAFT/GRASP

10.7. Great Debate

11. iSearch/ Genius Hour

11.1. choice

11.1.1. passionate topics

11.2. independence

11.2.1. able to talk through with adults/peers

11.2.2. responsibility

11.2.2.1. "I want to learn..."

11.3. reflecting

11.3.1. self assessment

11.4. writing

11.4.1. first person

11.4.2. writing process

11.4.3. tells a story

11.5. inquiry based

11.6. authentic

11.7. questioning

11.8. scaffolding and encouragement

11.8.1. conferences

11.8.2. mini lessons

11.8.3. status of the class

11.9. researching skills

11.9.1. interviews

11.9.2. primary and secondary sources

11.9.3. POG

12. Historical Sleuthing

12.1. questioning and analyzing

12.2. parallel curriculum

12.3. inquiry

12.4. primary vs. secondary sources

12.4.1. Library of Congress

12.4.2. Teaching With Primary Sources Northern VA

12.5. historian's approach

12.6. concepts/generalizations as a scholar

12.7. POG Skills

12.7.1. revising and refining

12.7.2. variety of sources

12.7.3. ask questions

13. Various Languages in the classroom/schools

13.1. builds a culture of thinking

13.2. Language of thinking

13.2.1. reinforcing

13.2.2. name and notice

13.2.3. categories of thinking

13.2.4. cues action

13.2.5. metacognition

13.3. Language of Community

13.3.1. productive

13.3.2. shows our priorities/intentions

13.3.3. "we"

13.4. Language of Identity

13.4.1. members not outsiders of our subjects

13.4.2. specific roles

13.5. Language of Initiative

13.5.1. independence

13.5.2. "who is doing the thinking?"

13.6. Language of Mindfulness

13.6.1. opens doors, avoids closure

13.6.2. conditional language

13.7. Language of Praise and Feedback

13.7.1. efforts not ability

13.7.2. Growth mindset

13.7.3. specific

13.7.4. Ongoing

13.7.5. timely

13.7.6. actionable

13.8. Language of Listening

13.8.1. leads to conversation

13.8.2. meaningful

13.8.3. creates connections

14. Project Zero

14.1. Making Thinking Visible

14.2. Thinking Routine Toolbox

14.2.1. Core Thinking Routines

14.2.1.1. See, Think, Wonder

14.2.1.2. Think Pair Share

14.2.1.3. I used to think...now I think

14.2.2. Digging Deeper Into Ideas

14.2.2.1. Step Inside

14.2.2.2. Red Light Yellow Light

14.2.2.3. Peel the Fruit

14.2.3. Introducing & Exploring Ideas

14.2.3.1. Chalk Talk

14.2.3.2. 3-2-1 Bridge

14.2.3.3. Outside In

14.2.4. Objects & Systems

14.2.4.1. Imagine If

14.2.4.2. Think, Feel, Care

14.2.5. Perspective Taking

14.2.5.1. Same and Different

14.2.5.2. Circle of Viewpoints

14.2.6. Perspectives, Controversies, and Dilemmas

14.2.6.1. Tug for Truth

14.2.6.2. Who am I?

14.2.7. Possibilities & Analogies

14.2.7.1. Options Explosion

14.2.7.2. True for who?

14.2.8. Synthesizing and Organizing IDeas

14.2.8.1. The 4 C's

14.2.8.2. Headlines

14.2.8.3. Circles of Action

14.2.9. With Art or Objects

14.2.9.1. Creative Questions

14.2.9.2. Colors, Shapes, Lines

14.2.10. Can be found at : PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox | Project Zero

14.3. Understanding Palette

14.3.1. good for perspectives/POV