Reading #6

Chapter 11 – 10 Questions (+2)

1. What ways could our school (or myself as a teacher) do a better job of motivating students for the DC CAS? (I think this would be good to consider for next year, as there is only a week to prepare for this year).
2. How can I consistently incorporate previewing of the text with my students?
3. How can I best teach students about criterion tasks? This is something that may become more important when my standards are geared to my textbook (this year DC switched the standards but we did not yet start teaching them)…I think I have the correct understanding that a criterion task is the standard students are supposed to be able to fulfill.
4. What is the best way for students who miss class to do make-up work, so that they have a better opportunity to gain domain knowledge?
5. How can I best assign interactive homework assignments to students’ whose parents are not often the most involved?
6. Will assigning interactive homework assignments lead to greater parent involvement?
7. Are there other interactive methods beyond interviewing family or community members about different topics or collecting data by recording things such as ingredients for different products at the grocery store?
8. How can I assign more “practice-based” homework, which is meant for students to practice what I have already guided the students through in class?
9. What kind of preparation and extension type assignments might I be able to utilize in my class?
10. How can I best introduce task awareness (or knowing what’s important) to my students, using methods like SQ3R?
11. How can I systematically teach some of the great “observable” and “in-the-head” study strategies? How can I make them a part of my routine in the classroom?
12. How can I teach students to be more aware of their performance (understand relationship between their understanding of the task and using the appropriate strategy for accomplishing it)?