Transcript Teaching Successfully in a Block Schedule

Teaching Successfully in a
Block Schedule
Breaking Up the Block in to StudentCentered Chunks
SOURCE: Cary Nadzak, [email protected]
BELLRINGER
TICKET TO LEAVE
READ ALOUDS
Breaking Up
the Block
ANTICIPATION
ACTIVITY
ASSESSMENT
PRACTICE
DELIVERY OF
CONTENT
WAKE UP CALL
Daily Schedule
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Bellringer
Read Alouds
Anticipation Activity
Direct Instruction (Delivery of Content)
Wake-Ups
Practice/Review
Assessment
Ticket to Leave/Celebration
Daily Schedule – Post in Your Room
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Follow schedule EVERY DAY
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Put on board so kids know what to expect
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Write what it will be
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Write what will it be
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What is it?
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What will YOU do?
What will students do?)
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Name of activity
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Activity
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What is it?
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Homework? Reflection?
Bellringer
Read Aloud
Anticipation Activity
Direct Instruction
Wake-Up
Practice/Review
Assessment
Ticket to Leave/Celebration
Bellringers
 Can be written
 May use as a journal and grade on test
days
 Write on slips and have them put in a box
for a raffle for a candy bar or something
else
 Good Source
 Reader’s Digest - Imponderables
 Good website for bellringers:
 www.oddee.com
Examples of Bellringers
 Trivia question or
riddle
 Short poem
 Anecdote
 Opinion question
 Review question
from the day
before
 Life-skills math
problem
 Weird facts
 Current event
 Vocabulary teaser
 Journal entry
 Video clip
Read Alouds
 Teacher reads aloud to the class
 Janet Allen is a good source
 Google her for list of recommended books
 Fires in the Bathroom
 Advice for high school teachers
 Written by high school students
 Good books
 Oh Yikes! History’s Grossest Wackiest Moments
 Oh Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty
Examples of Read Alouds
 Primary documents
 Poems that stimulate interest in the
content
 News Blurb – Current Event
 Funny Anecdotes
 Novel – Read a chapter a day
Anticipation Activity
 Use music and photos of that era or culture
 Use video clips from United Streaming
about the topic
 Index Card Pass
 Each student in a row write one word about
what studying today and pass it back.
 Fishbowl
 Must place a card in the fishbowl in order to
talk.
Examples of Anticipation
Activities
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Gallery Walk
Group Grids
Music
Photos
Index Card Pass
Video Clip
20 Questions Game
Picture Books
Book Browse
Get-to-Know-Your
Chapter
 Fishbowl
 Easter Eggs/ Hot
Tamale Boxes
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Direct Instruction
 Read! Highlight! Hot Dog!
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Teacher students note taking skills
Students read and take notes
Tell students what to highlight
Fold paper in half like a hot dog and
make a review sheet of highlighted
material
 Google “Foldables” for lots of
resources
Direct Instruction
(Delivery of Content)
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Lecture (Make it SHORT!!!!)
Pass the Folder
Fact Bugs or Funky Folders
Jigsaw
Vocabulary Graphic Organizer
Concept Maps
Venn Diagrams
Class Paragraphs
Wake Ups
 Use music and movement
 Re-energize class for instruction and refocuses students….especially boys.
 Zoom
 Get students in circle
 Student looks in eyes of next person and says
“Zoom”
 Do until back to the beginning
 Good sources of wake ups
 Google Weird Stuff to do in the Classroom
 You Tube – Funny Videos
Wake-Ups
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Zoom
I went to class and learned today…..
Mixed up body parts
Group Switches
Simon Says
Hand Slap
Body Part Review
Music
Practice/Review
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Bingo
Whiffle-Ball Review
Single-Line Review
Paper Plate Matching Game in Circle
Whiteboards
3-Second Review
I’m going to……………………..
Assessment
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Collages with words and/or photos
Found poems
Oral quizzes
Whiteboards
Respond/React/Reflect
Journals
5 W’s
Mapping
Portfolios
Ticket to Leave/
Celebration
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Homework Assignments
3 Second Review
“One thing I learned today” slip
“Turn to your neighbor”
Graffiti fact poster
Thought Bubbles
Celebration
Digital Bloom’s Taxonomy
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