For those of you have visited David Warr's Langauge Garden, (http://www.languagegarden.org/ )you may recognize this the word plant below. I love the way he has taken part of my mission statement and created this beautiful piece of artwork.
Concepts-In Use www.ibo.org In this post, one more strategy takes center stage when it comes to designing lessons that aid conceptual understanding in our students: Concept-In-Use. This strategy should be used once several concepts have been covered in class. A great way to know whether your students are internalizing the concepts is to ask them to explain the connections between two concepts. For example: In Math Ask them to convert a fraction to a percentage. Or a percentage to a decimal. Can they clearly explain the connection? Can they use drawings to support their explanation? Can they articulate the difference between a prism and a pyramid. How are they same? How are they different? How can you represent data visually? Bar graphs, pictographs, line charts are all concepts. As a designer of conceptual lessons, a teacher needs to be keenly aware of the connections between concepts. For instance, is the Grade 3 teacher awar...
A pleasure, Naini! When you said it took 3 days to write your mission statement, immediately the saying "what is easy to read is not easy to write" came to mind. The best speech writers refine and refine their work till they get it right.
ReplyDeleteWhat is easy to read is not easy to write! lovely:)
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