Learning Never Stops

  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...

  Strategy : Internalization What is internalization and how does it look in the classroom? "Transforming an individual physical or material activity into other mental and conceptual forms of that same external activity, to acquire new understandings." (ibo.org) The first time I came across this explanation, I struggled to understand it.  However, as I continued to read more about this strategy, I had a lot of 'aha' moments which helped consolidate my understanding of a few things. The research behind this strategy (Gasperin,1989) addressed the following too: How "internalization" is but an extension of Vygotsky's Social Constructivist theory The reasoning behind a spiral curriculum and why it is so effective How to help students become self-regulated learners For those of you interested in the research,  refer to the sources cited below. So coming back to the explanation of internalization... Learning occurs at three levels: Material level Verbal level ...

How can I begin designing a Concept-driven lesson? I haven't yet completed sharing thoughts and ideas about some of the strategies in my Concept-driven Learning series. Some of you have messaged me about planning ideas. I'm sharing what I created for my assignment during the upskilling course on concept-driven learning for IBEN members. It is a template that helps me use the strategies. 3 pages Hope this helps! hashtag Planning Template