Strategy+of+the+Month

Strategy of the Month
//Content Objective//: Teachers will be able to analyze tools for comparing and contrasting information and apply them effectively during lessons within their content area.
 * September 2010 - Comparing & Contrasting **

//Graphic Organizers//: To download any of the following graphic organizers, simply click on the name of the file you want. Files labeled "Blank" are ready for your content area input. Those with subject names are samples for you to examine.

          

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Interactive Graphic Organizers <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This site allows you to download a graphic organizer and type directly into it, as needed.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Graphic Organizer Printables <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Use this free online tool to locate a graphic organizer that will assist you in your lessons, then print what you find. They are in PDF form, so you won't be able to edit them on your computer unless you have the paid version of Adobe Acrobat installed.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Content Objectives://
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">October 2010 - Classifying & Categorizing **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1. Teachers will examine methods of classifying & categorizing information and apply them effectively during lessons within their content area.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2. Teachers will use a free online tool (Google Squared) to practice the strategy of categorizing/classifying at the analysis/synthesis level.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Graphic Organizers -// To download any of the following graphic organizers, simply click on the name of the file you want. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

//How to use Google Squared//

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Objective: Participants will be able to justify the use of metaphors in their specific content area to enhance student understanding. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">November 2010 - Metaphors **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Objective: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers will use analogies in their instruction to enhance student understanding of content.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">December 2010 - Analogies **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A great free, online tool for any classroom purpose is Jeopardy Labs. Just like the TV show, create your own Jeopardy questions and answers for students. Use them to review, to assess, or when you need something relevant for a sub. To see (and use) the Q and A that I created to practice analogies, click here: Analogies

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**January 2011 - Summarizing** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Objective: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers will utilize different types of summarizing structures to support student learning.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Another great, free online tool to enhance students' thinking about your content is Wordle. Create "word clouds" for any piece of text that you can copy from one source and paste into Wordle. Compare and contrast 2 speeches; view a summary of an article; show a character's words and infer which character might have said them. Create your own wordle by weighting the text that you input.