In this latest revision of the learning focused lesson template, several components have been clarified. The new learning focused lesson plan replaces the acquisition lesson and the extending thinking lesson plan formats. Thompsons mission to build a culture of academic success in every school. Diane hacker 2008, in a canadian writers reference, explains that summarizing. Adapting teaching and learning strategies the strategies linked to learning activities are a suggestion only. Personalised learning at the enacted level is the individual school s response to the. Instructional strategies list science, and often social science, learning. Each sheet contains examples of the the strategies is and is not examples and nonexamples, what the strategy should look like and sound like in a classroom, why we need to utilize the strategy, steps for implementing the strategy in your classroom, and examples of each strategy.
Instructional services learning focused lesson plan. As a thinking strategy, summarizing is a powerful thinking ability that allows students to process information and make sense of it. In class reading, although necessary, can be made more interactive by using these simple strategies. Although the strategies dont necessarily end in summaries that follow a traditional format, they do pave the way for writing that is concise yet accurately reflects an understanding of essential content. Nancy roberts is a literacy specialist at the high school in the lockport city school district in new york and works with grades 912 in various content areas, weaving literacy skills and strategies into all curricular areas. Of all of the literacy activities that you could have focused on, summarizing is the most powerful for elementary students. At the center of lfs is the commitment to search for better ways to reach all students. A school reform model designed to assist systems, schools and teachers in using exemplary practices to increase learning and achievement. Learning logs or journals are also often used at the beginning of class in this way. How will students summarize what they are learning during the lesson and at the end. A specific learning target or goal for this lesson is included, from which the lesson essential question is drawn. How to get thehow to get the most from most from summarizing. Learningfocused strategies notebook teacher materials. This booklet of summarizing strategies is designed to be a toolkit for teachers.
If you want to make a larger difference to how well your students do, then learn about this core list of 10 evidencebased teaching strategies. With a team of instructional specialists, were making good on dr. Summarizing is a vital skill for students to learn, but many students find it difficult to pick out the important facts without providing too much detail. This lesson will explain what learning focused strategies are and give some tips on how to use them. Align assessments, objectives, instructional strategies. Jan 02, 2014 most teachers care about their students results, and if you are reading this article, you are undoubtedly one of them. The strategy focuses on the concept of requiring students to follow a set of rules or steps that leads them to produce an organized summary. Sep, 2015 a collection of summarizing strategies for teachers summarizing strategies promote the retention of knowledge through the use of engaging strategies designed to rehearse and practice skills for the purpose of moving knowledge into longterm memory. Learningfocused schools is a continuous improvement model designed to assist systems, schools and teachers in using exemplary practices to increase learning and achievement. Specific learning processes that students engage in during inquiry include. When using summarizing, the teacher will explicitly model through thinkalouds, written expressions, and nonverbal representations how they justify their thinking.
To do so, educators must work to refine instructional evaluate what works and what does not work with fine tune research based instructional strategies that will enable all students to succeed. They define activators as techniques to activate students prior knowledge through the use of engaging strategies designed to focus learning and summarizers as activities to promote the. Each week we have dozens of jackets and coats left at lost and found. Learners summarize lessons extending refining lesson this graphic represents a learning focused extending refining lesson 1,2,4 what is the essential question of the lesson. Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium e. Alice will be introduced with my video as well as other demos. The level of implementation and perceived impact on student achievement article pdf available september 2005 with 1,544 reads how we measure reads. Learning activity 1 today they are learning about the class. The stand up and talk activity helps keep students tuned in and summarizing occasionally. This strategy allows students to capture, reflect, and organize their knowledge to build upon, access, and apply their learning. Summarizing teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. Quick summarizing strategies to use in the classroom. How will students summarize what they are learning during the lesson and at the. Answer the eq thinkpairshare summarizing questions will be distributed and asked throughout the lesson extending refining activity.
Stand up and talk students can only go so long before they tune out. April 2010 2 written conversations each student begins the answer to a question or prompt posed by the teacher. The three foundational strategies thus interplay throughout an instructional unit and reinforce all other strategies. Learning focused schools reference guides for teachers by. Most students become smarter through effort and hard work. It is a planning model that provides frameworks and tools for organizing, planning, assessing and designing instruction.
The following strategies and activities will take the burden off teaching and put it on learning. A learning focused model lfm is a framework for planning exemplary lessons. Summarization strategies can be used in almost every content area. Announcements welcome to greenville county schools online. This lesson on blanca flor by angel vigil is editable to suit your needs. Teachers conferencing with individual small groups 2. The inner ring of the qpts wheel identifies the frequently used strategies that research has shown to be most effective in student learning across subjects and grade levels. Oct 03, 2016 summarizing is an essential reading skill i teach early and often in my classroom. Go to, request your free kit, and be sure to credit taylors elementary school with your signup. This guide provides instructional management techniques, offers curriculum guidelines, and includes a list of resources to facilitate generalization of independent learning. A school reform model designed to assist systems, schools and teachers in. Quick summarizing strategies to use in the classroom compiled by ann lewis, laurel school district. Summarizing can help students to understand text and even to recognize when the mean ing is unclear. Stay focused during class time by sitting near the front of the room always read text before attending class actively take notes throughout the class period.
How to get thehow to get the most from most from summarizing strategies. Learningfocused online provides professional development courses and resources for schools and districts implementing the learningfocused. Summary student motivation an overlooked piece of school. It is a school reform model designed to assist pk12 teachers in using exemplary practices to increase learning and achievement. The following easy summarizing strategies will help your students choose the correct details from the text and write about them clearly and concisely. Learning focused strategies provides a framework and tools for organizing. Schools improve student achievement when they create structures that.
Summary student motivation an overlooked piece of school reform. Students learn more when they stop to summarize occasionally. The learning focused schools model supports our vision. Summarizing is one strategy to help our students get there. Summarizing is a skill that requires students to piece together and condense the key ideas and details of a large piece of text into a concise understanding of a texts main points. Summarizing ensures students recap knowledge, skills, processes, and sequences of events. Learners summarize lessons extending refining lesson this graphic represents a learningfocused extending refining lesson 1,2,4 what is the essential question of the lesson. If they have a name on the inside, we get the coat or jacket back to the right student. I participated in a districtsponsored case study following a. A collection of summarizing strategies for teachers summarizing strategies promote the retention of knowledge through the use of engaging strategies designed to rehearse and practice skills for the purpose of moving knowledge into longterm memory. Summarizing as a thinking strategy teamtom education.
Learningfocused strategies provides a framework and tools for organizing. Learningfocused strategies x activating lesson lesson. Class for march 3 create a school wide pbs post a few rules in class that express positive behaviors implement and monitor consistent interventions. Introduce learning focused schools modeland learning focused connecting strategies planning learning units workshop see next two slides learning focused schools is a continuous improvement model designed to assist systems, schools and teachers in using exemplary practices to increase learning and achievement. Used in the midst of a lesson, a summarizing strategy can help students. A few years later, my dissertation focused on the attention skills of students with learning disabilities in high school bender. Learning focused strategies notebook teacher materials 2004 learning concepts, inc. Patterns and practices in the learningfocused classroom. What kinds of activities in and out of class will reinforce my learning objectives and prepare students for assessments. Students are instructed to write a response to a prompt when they first enter the room. Teaching students to summarize is well worth the effort.
Today, learning focused is led by lindsey hampton and don marlett, two education leaders with nearly four decades of combined experience in the classroom and in school leadership positions. A planning model that provides frameworks and tools for organizing, planning, assessing and designing instruction. Learner centered teaching strategies take the drudgery out of. Within her position, nancy teaches collaboratively and in lab settings. Summarizing strategies promote the retention of knowledge through the use of engaging strategies. Learning focused strategies help to guide teachers towards developing that quality curricula. The strategy focuses on the concept of requiring students to follow a set of rules or steps. Wellman has served as a classroom teacher, curriculum coordinator and staff developer in the oberlin, ohio and concord, massachusetts public schools.
If assessments are misaligned with learning objectives or instructional strategies, it can undermine both student motivation and learning. In addition, the effort to identify main ideas while summarizing can help students remember those ideas murrell and surber 1987. What follows the list is some explanation of each strategy approach, along with related strategies approaches where applicable. The us digital literacy site provides my favorite definitions of activators and summarizers. Evidencebased strategies for improving student outcomes 2nd ed.
Planning instructional strategies missouri department of. Student motivationan overlooked piece of school reform center on education policy 3 proponents of using rewards to motivate students contend that these programs can help bring balance to an educational system that expects students to exert effort up front for the promise of rewards that are delayed or difficult to grasp. The goal of learning strategies instruction is to teach students. Each sheet contains examples of the the strategies is and is not examples and nonexamples, what the strategy should look like and sound like in a classroom, why we need to utilize the strategy. Sustained school based improvement requires teachers and administrators to work as a team to intensify their efforts to meet the learning and achievement needs of all students.
Other videos from projects done in the passed will be introduced. They provide the structure for short and long term memory. In justifying strategies, our high school physics teacher cites the following. As teachers know their students learning styles and needs they can select alternative strategies or adapt those suggested to deliver the content. Going over the rules of the class and learning about their fellow group mates who they will have for 4. Students are prepared for learning by activating an overview of the upcoming learning experience, their prior knowledge, and the necessary vocabulary. Learning focused schools model a school reform model designed to assist systems, schools and teachers in using exemplary practices to increase learning and achievement. Using this information, learning focused lessons use a distribution model for summarizing which includes a variety of summary strategies throughout the lesson rather than just the end. Learning focused online provides professional development courses and resources for schools and districts implementing the learning focused instructional framework. Learner centered teaching strategies take the drudgery out.
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 68 text complexity band proficiently, with. The level of implementation and perceived impact on student achievement. Summarizing definition buckley 2004, in her popular writing text fit to print, defines summarizing as reducing text to onethird or onequarter its original size, clearly articulating the authors meaning, and retaining main ideas. Duplication permitted exclusively for classroom use by owner of. Learningfocused strategies activating lesson lesson planning. Graphic organizers help students comprehend information through visual representation of concepts, ideas, and relationships.
These quick cheat sheets provide the key elements of many of the learning focused schools strategies. The intended curriculum is developmental enabling multiple entry points and allows for the local context whilst responding to system frameworks. Activating strategies public schools of robeson county. Teaching students to summarize improves their memory for what is read. The new learning focused lesson plan replaces the acquisition. An active use of language learning strategies helps learners in control of their own learning by. Headsup homework hints for administrators and parents. What will be the sequence of these learning experiences. Read a summary and a howto from an independent source rathvon, n. Today, when your parents ask you what you learned in school you will share what you learned about adjectives. Learning focused strategies athens area school district. The learningfocused schools model supports our vision. Hong shi china university of petroleumbeijing abstract. Max thompsons learning focused strategies approach to school improvement has been embraced by school leaders and teachers as an approach to redesign and reform public schools.
Activators and summarizers kathy schrocks guide to. Learning focused schools for teachers, administrators. Learning strategies and classification in education. The learning focused schools project is an ongoing, comprehensive commitment to implement common practices that are found in highachieving exemplary schools. Instructional strategies list washoe county school district. The interactive teaching and learning strategies described in this section. Below is a list of 49 instructional strategies, or approaches, that have been adapted with the working groups of the washoe county school district. Learning strategies are steps taken by learners to enhance their learning. The data for this study were collected through a forced choice questionnaire. Learning the procedure for summarizing and taking notes is a process. Even for advanced readers, its a skill that requires continual practice. Strategies to promote student discourse 95 04gillies45194.
Information in this section came from the area service center 2 student engagement rubric from the clark county school district and is not ed. D is codirector of miravia, llc, a multifaceted training and development firm dedicated to creating and sustaining learning focused educational environments. Typically adopted by the school or district, it incorporates specific steps and strategies for teachers and. A collection of summarizing strategies for teachers. Overviews can happen both at the beginning and end of a lesson.