Pedagogy

= Pedagogy =

1. Put daily/weekly agenda on the board. 2. Adapt the time allowed. 3. Explain new concepts using concrete examples from new life. 4. On worksheets: bold key words; use 12 point font (minimum); double-space text; provide adequate room for responses; remember, white space is good. 5. Use concept mapping and charts to organize information.
 * Top Five Accommodations to Help Students Learn**

**Tell me what I'm doing wrong** I had noticed that a lot of the students were making the same mistakes over and over again when drawing graphs, so for one lesson I told them that I was going to draw a terrible graph on the board, and I wanted them to write down all the mistakes that I made. They really enjoyed telling me all the things I was doing wrong, and when I marked their graphing assignments a couple days later I could really see a difference in the quality of work.


 * Strategies for Teaching High School **
 * 1) Collaboration - TPS
 * 2) Mind maps - ex. [|bubbl.us]
 * 3) Jigsaw
 * 4) POE or PVOE - predict, vote, observe, explain
 * 5) Problem Based Learning
 * 6) Debates
 * 7) Concrete example leads to abstract
 * 8) Demonstration
 * 9) Technology
 * 10) Placemats
 * 11) Drama
 * 12) Students designing their own problems
 * 13) Individual work
 * 14) [|Fermi problems]
 * 15) Brain teasers - make sure they're connected to the lesson
 * 16) Study out loud in partners
 * 17) Have students teach/coach each other
 * 18) Write down the steps to answer a problem/swap and have partner use the steps to answer another problem
 * 19) Rally table/Graffiti Writing - Write down as much as you know about a concept, pass the paper around and everyone adds to it
 * 20) Circle map, tree map, flow map