Slides from professional development workshop presented at ICS, Caracas.

2. Teaching
Have you heard about the boy that taught his
dog to talk?
What is teaching?
What is learning?

3. Coverage vs Uncoverage
Uncoverage
• Making sense of teaching
• Interacting with insights and
knowledge through well
designed experiences
Coverage
• Sharing insights and
knowledge

4. Which strategies uncover?
The best
teachers:
1.
2.
3.
4.

5. Marzano’s Research
Effective
Teaching
Advance
Organizers
Building
Vocabulary
Graphic
Organizers
Chunking
Information
Summarizing
& Note
Taking
Identifying
Similarities &
Differences

6. Use Advance Organizers to Preview
Content
Talk with a
partner and
come up with 3
reasons.

7. Building Vocabulary
Understanding –
Verb – To understand a topic or subject is to be
able to use knowledge and skill wisely and
effectively
Noun – An understanding is the successful result
of trying to understand
Understanding is more than just regurgitating
information mindlessly. It involves a depth of
insight and familiarity that allows a person to use
it for authentic purposes.
Explain what understanding is to your neighbor in your own words.

8. Summarizing & Note taking
Priming: Look for
how this relates to the
Big Ideas and
Essential Questions of
UbD
• Idea – Big picture
purpose/direction
• EQ – Provoke interest
/inquiry
Big Idea /
Essential
Questions
• Reflects purpose
• Personally relate in
multiple facetsMain Idea

9. Read Steps 1-7 for Teaching Students to Think
Critically
Primer: Look for practical ways you could integrate
these into your teaching?
3-2-1- Summarize!
What 3 things are you already doing some of in your teaching?
Summarizing - Chunking
3-2-1- Summarize!
Identify 2 areas (skills) that your students may be struggling with.
3-2-1- Summarize!
Explain how you are going to implement 1 of these strategies in your
class on Monday.
Face Off

10. Read Distinguishing characteristics of understandings
excerpt from Understanding by Design.
Index Card Side A - Quote
“The understanding will need to be uncovered, because it is
abstract and not immediately obvious” (p.127).
Save the last quote!
Index Card Side B - Response
An enduring understanding can not be transferred through a statement or
an explanation. I need to design learning experiences that uncover the
understanding. In the example of understandings related to effective
stories I may begin with having students think about their favorite stories
and reflecting on what makes them captivating. We can build a word web
then have students write a response explaining what elements of stories
really capture their interest. In this we will uncover some of the
understandings related to effective stories.