Day 6

Today we learned about TBL (Team-Based Learning). We self-modeled the activity through completing the following steps: We read about TBL, took an individual quiz, then took a team quiz and checked our answers with the scratch and win cards. Actually practicing this skill/activity/learning strategy gave me a better understanding of how it works and could envision myself using this in my classroom. Also we covered scaffolding techniques. This helped remind me that not all students come to your classroom at grade-level. Some students think that an index is at the front of a book. Whether simple or complicated, it would be vital to model and think aloud as I give instructions to students. One literacy strategy that I learned and can incorporate into my lesson is WHAT-HOW-WHY (individuals). This strategy teaches students how to analyze how and why individuals develop and interact over the course of the text. The end goal of this strategy is to challenge students to write a constructed response that seamlessly uses embedded textual evidence in their responses.