Cheryl Beeson Principal Murphey Traditional Academy Public Elementary School Greensboro, NC [email protected] Preparing for GREATNESS: The Power of Pre-Seminar.

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Cheryl BeesonPrincipal

Murphey Traditional AcademyPublic Elementary School

Greensboro, [email protected]

Preparing for GREATNESS: The Power of

Pre-Seminar Content

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Step #1: Build a

Community of Learners in the

Classroom

Pictorial Biographies with

a subtext

Burkins & Yaris Reading Wellness

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Me: Read AloudWe: Complete graphic organizerFew/You: Complete g.o. about yourselfTeacher puts books in kids’ hands!Students write about what they’ve read.

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First Grade team has planned a Paideia Seminar using Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania of Jordan

Ideas and values: friendship, getting along with people who are differentSkills Identify similarities and differences Cite textual evidence from print

and illustrationsWriting activity will begin September 5th after lunch, where the students will taste hummus and pita (just like Lily does in the book).

Step #2:

Making Connections

Every Way We Can

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Pre-seminar Math Talk

Math Talk by Forsten & Richards

Designed to help integrate mathematical language, concepts, skills into classroom routines

Children talk about the details they find and the theme that emerges

“The way human beings learn has

nothing to do with being kept

quiet.”~Ralph Peterson

(1992)

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Content

Content and Skill: Science and Research

Primary Connection:

Content

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Using one text to scaffold

understanding of a more

challenging text

Creating background knowledge

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Pre-Seminar Content:

The Story of Ruby Bridges

Seminar Text:Our Children Can

Soar

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The Lion and The Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

Connection

Character Development

KindnessK-1st Lion and the Mouse

2nd – 3rd Dear Children of the Earth4th & 5th “Magic Bed: An Indian Tale”

Monthly School-wide seminars on character traits

Same theme: Different texts Pre-seminar content:

reading strategy Post-seminar content:

writing

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Point of View “Leaning in” (Burkins &

Yaris) Acknowledging others’

opinions as differing from yours

“ish” by Peter Reynolds

SKILL:Seminar Process

Developing the Skills of

--Personal Reflection and

--Accepting others’

viewpoints

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Engagement in seminar’s theme or conflicts

Example: The Three Questions (Based on a story by Leo Tolstoy) by Jon Muth What is the best time to do

things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do?

Skill:

Writing as a tool for

engagement Pre-Seminar

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Use of Visual Images

Skill Building: Drawing Inferences

What I see? People: Clothing, Expressions Objects: Buildings, Equipment Questions I have

What I infer~• People: Personality, Lifestyle• Objects: Purpose, Importance• Questions I now have.

Scaffolding the CONTENT and SKILLS before

the Seminar

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Building Academic Vocabulary

Robert J. Marzano &

Debra J. Pickering

Step #3

Vocabulary Vocabulary

Vocabulary!

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Six-Steps for

Teaching New Terms

First 3 steps introduce and develop initial

understanding.

Last 3 steps shape and sharpen

understanding.

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Step 1Provide a description,

explanation, or example of new term.

Step 2Students restate

explanation of new term in own

words.

Step 3

Students create a nonlinguistic representation

of term.

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Step 4Students periodically

do activities that help add to knowledge of vocabulary terms.

Step 5Periodically students

are asked to discuss terms with one another.

Step 6

Periodically students are

involved in games that allow them

to play with terms.

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“Talk a Mile a Minute” Activity

With a partner, designate a “talker”

for each round.

Try to get your partner to say each

word by quickly describing it.

May NOT use words in category title or

rhyming words.

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Civil War

Get your partner to say these two

key items:

~Union and Confederacy

~Abraham Lincoln

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Switch roles, and get your

partner to say these two key

terms:

~Emancipation Proclamation

~Gettysburg

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Vocabulary Charades

Game Activity

Please stand.

Using your arms, legs, and bodies,

show the meaning of each

term below:

SlopeCircumference

Matrix

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Example of Vocabulary in Gradual Release Lesson Plan

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Murphey Traditional

Academy

2306 Ontario StreetGreensboro, NC

[email protected]