Workshop Series Part 4 - Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

Classroom Instruction That Work

Workshop Series – Part 4 Cues, Questioning, & Advance Organizers

January 2013

	Tasks	Notes
Engage	Thinking Caps
Explore	Skimming (Advance Organizer)
Explain	Inferential Questioning Analytic Questioning Essential/Guiding Questions Explicit Cues Advance Organizers
Elaborate	Graphic Organizers - Quick Write
Evaluate	Writing Essential Questions

* Additional Resources located through B-Connect, select Instructional Resources, click on the Brazosport Instructional Coaching Google site, and finally select the tab “CITW – Classroom Instruction That Works”.

ENGAGE: - Thinking Caps  – ask for volunteers to put on the “thinking cap”.  The person wearing the cap is the spokes person.  They must discuss CITW with their group and be prepared to respond to the question based on their hat choice.

Explore – Groups will “skim” the notes Tips page given to them.  Thinking Caps have been rearranged and now a new discussion will take place based on what they read and their new hat.

Explain – Refer to chart showing examples of each type of questioning and where they can find the essential questioning.  Discuss giving explicit cues to tell students what they are learning.  Demo, video clips, drawings, graphics, etc…Not to be used as extras at the end of the unit, but more powerful if used at the beginning – just like the short stories and picture books have traditionally been used to introduce topics.  During workshop series sessions, many teachers are concerned with the amount of time to prep for these strategies.  I try to stress the fact that these are strategies they are probably doing, we just want to bring it to their attention and emphasis them.  They require little to no additional planning, other than normal planning.  However, with this strategy it is the one that requires the most advanced planning because you have to think out the questions prior to teaching.

ELABORATE – Circle Map with “Organizers” in the middle.  Teachers do a quick write for 2 minutes to write as many organizers as they can.  Discuss briefly Thinking Maps and remind teachers of google site where additional resources are.  Graphic Organizers are revisited again in NLR.

EVALUATE -  Teachers write at least one essential question for a lesson that they have coming up.

THINKING CAPS:

Each color hat represents a different point of view. The six color hats used are red, blue, black, white, green, yellow.  See included attachment.