Similar to every other day at LALLI, we were fortunate to learn strategies to implement during instruction. A statistic Amy presented may perhaps sum up the reason as to why 30 plus education professionals plan to meet daily for two weeks during the first official week of summer vacation-- to learn new ways to best serve students needs so they become motivated lifelong learners.
Within Amy's presentation she discussed the fact that 7,000 students dropout of high school every day. She asked, what can educators do to ensure students are prepared so they do not feel as though the only option is to dropout?
We, the LALLI participants, called out all the different strategies we have already learned to prepare students.
- Inverted Triangle
- Annotation
- Tapping into Background Knowledge
- Finding Evidence
- Accountable Talk
Amy's presentation concluded with the "HUGE" importance of feedback, both teacher and peer. Although feedback takes time, "we get back the time with the improvement of writing."
-VW
The students that we are teaching are the future of America, the last thing that we want is for them to drop out. We as educators need to present new information to students in a way that they will undersand and retain. The different things that we are learning through LLALI, is how we are going to accomplish this goal. We need to take the time to allow student to talk in the classroom prodcutively, accountable talk is the answer. Students need to learn how to talk to one another and stay on topic. Teaching students to pick part information and reachout to us when they have a question and feel comfortable with it.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing is that we may be the ONE teacher that inspires or reaches a particular student enough to NOT drop out. Maybe there is one time where we've done the extra work with a student; it may seem long or stressful to us, but that day might make the difference down the road. We have to always be mindful of this as teachers.
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