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Middle School Science Cohort

Middle School Science Cohort. Teach for America Professional development day Saturday, October 23, 2010 Content Session 2. Agenda. Welcome Activity (8 min) Contact Information (1 min) Session Norms (1 min) Session 2 – Engaging Guided Practice (35 min) Work Time (45 min). Welcome!.

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Middle School Science Cohort

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  1. Middle School Science Cohort Teach for America Professional development day Saturday, October 23, 2010 Content Session 2

  2. Agenda Welcome Activity (8 min) Contact Information (1 min) Session Norms (1 min) Session 2 – Engaging Guided Practice (35 min) Work Time (45 min)

  3. Welcome! • Sign-In • PD Day Schedule • Whip Around - Please share your: • Name • Corps Year • Grade • Subject • School And… • Guilty Pleasure

  4. Contact Information Kevin Hooper Content Course Instructor hoopkev@gmail.com (815) 210-4707 Bethany Edwards Program Director bethany.edwards@teachforamerica.org Wiki Space Site: http://tfamiddleschoolscience.wikispaces.com/

  5. Session Norms Honor each other’s strengths Be open to new ideas Be professional with time - in and out of the session Be ready to contribute to discussion

  6. Session 2 – Engaging Guided Practice • Objectives: • CMWBAT: Plan a varied style of guided practice into an upcoming lesson • CMWBAT: Execute varied styles of guided practices

  7. Why Are We Doing This? • Area of Development: PDs across content areas and including middle school science have observed that many classrooms are teacher-centered • Solution: Engaging Guided Practices will help your classrooms become more student-centered

  8. Before We Begin… • Take 3 minutes to reflect on your classroom: • What does a typical science lesson look like? • What are the typical teacher actions during a science lesson? • What are the typical student actions during a science lesson? • To what extent do you think that your classroom is student-centered? • Watch video (7 min): http://lab.tfateams.org/mini-visits-video/jennifer-freeman-implementing-middle-school-laboratory • Take 3 minutes to reflect on video with a partner • How do the student actions in the video differ from your students’ actions during a typical science lesson? • How does the instruction of the teacher in the video differ from your own? • Share Out

  9. What Makes a Strong Guided Practice?

  10. What is the Teacher’s Role?

  11. Modeling Student-Centered Guided Practices • Today we will model a few examples: • Student Discovery (Inquiry) • Rally Coach • Inside Outside Circles • Quiz Quiz Trade • Raps • See our Wikispace for many more resources…

  12. Student Discovery (Inquiry) • Physical Science Objective - SWBAT Understand the concept of work. A force acting through distance is work. • Students work in groups to organize pictures in order to identify relationships between force, distance and work. • Students answer questions that encourage higher-level thinking: • What trends do we see among the groups’ orderings of the different activities? • What factors did you identify as requirements for work to occur? • If you had to construct an equation to calculate work, what variables would you use?

  13. Rally Coach Life Science Objective – SWBAT calculate the probability of the genetic make-up of an offspring using a Punnett Square. Students work in pairs to solve Punnett square problems. Students learn to support and constructively debate with one another.

  14. Quiz Quiz Trade Earth Science Objective – SWBAT Explain that the solid Earth is layered with a crust, under which is a hot convecting mantle, and that at the center of the earth is a dense, metallic core. Students work in rotating pairs to answer questions Kinesthetic learners get the opportunity to move while engaging material

  15. Inside Outside Circles Different format than Quiz Quiz Trade, but the same questions can be used Earth Science Objective – SWBAT Explain that the solid Earth is layered with a crust, under which is a hot convecting mantle, and that at the center of the earth is a dense, metallic core. Students work in rotating pairs to discuss questions Kinesthetic learners get the opportunity to move while engaging material

  16. Raps Life Science Objective - SWBAT identify cell organelles and describe their respective functions. Students are extremely engaged when music is incorporated into guided practice Builds classroom culture: DJ Hoop Sizzle dropping rhymes

  17. Organelle Challenge I’m strong and stiff Getting through me is tough I’m found only in plants But I guess that’s enough What am I? ______________________

  18. Organelle Challenge I’m full of holes Flexible and thin I control what gets out And what comes in What am I? _________________

  19. Organelle Challenge I’m the brain of the cell Or so they say I regulate cell activities From day to day What am I? ____________________

  20. Work Time • Please use the remaining time to: • Get into work groups (listed on whiteboard) • Identify one objective you will be teaching in the next two weeks • Begin writing a lesson plan that incorporates one of the student-centered guided practices techniques • Action Step: • Upload lesson plan with student-centered guided practice to the wikispace by next Saturday, October 30 • Wikispace: http://tfamiddleschoolscience.wikispaces.com/

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