2. How will engaging students at all
learning levels improve my practice
and increase student achievement?
3. Agenda
Welcome and Norms
Purpose of Graphic Organizers
How to Engage with a Graphic
Organizer
Questions, Comments and Feedback
4. Norms
To accomplish the goals for this session, please
adhere to these courtesy practices:
Participate actively
Honor time limits
Be open to new ideas
Use vibrate mode on mobile phones
5. Housekeeping
Please place comments and questions in the
Parking Lot.
We will not take a formal break.
Locate the restrooms and use them at your
convenience.
6. How Do You Teach?
How are you able to teach your class with their
different…
abilities?
background knowledge?
personalities?
7. Take a minute and reflect upon how you currently
“teach your class.”
8. What is the Purpose of
Graphic Organizers?
Visual Aid
Structure Information
Organize Thought
Make Connections
9. When are Graphic Organizers
Most Effective?
Before
During
After
All Content Areas
10. What is the Learning Goal for
Graphic Organizers?
Summarize
Focus Student Thinking
Transition to Writing
16. Using Graphic Organizers Effectively
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17. Using Graphic Organizers Effectively
Write all the factors that make up the number
12: 1,12, 2, 6, 3, 4 54: 1,54,2,27,6,9,3,18
54
12
1 27
12 2 54
4 3 9
6 18
18. Using Graphic Organizers Effectively
COMPARISON OF WEATHER DATA AND WEATHER INSTRUMENTS
WEATHER WEATHER UNIT OF DESIGN CHALLENGE
DATA INSTRUMEN MEASUREMENT (How It’s What is the scientific
T Made) principal that influences
the design?
temperature
air pressure
wind speed
relative
humidity
Here is an Essential Question that will guide our work together. Please take a moment to review it and think about how you engage your students. We will revisit this question later in the session.
Good Morning! And thank you for having me in today to share some ways to engage students using graphic organizers. Ms. Hawkins and I had a conversation a few weeks ago on engaging students in writing and what better way to build upon students ’ prior knowledge and organize their thoughts to prepare for writing than the use of graphic organizers. She asked me to share some strategies and here I am. Thank you! We are going to take a look at the purpose for graphic organizers and how to engage students with using them.
Here are some norms that I ask everyone adhere to: I encourage everyone to participate, honor time limits, be open to new ideas and if you have a cell phone please put it on vibrate.
For the sake of time, I am asking everyone to use the Parking Lot if you have any questions or comments to write them down on the post-it located on your table and place them on the Parking Lot. At the end of the session, I will address them. There will not be a formal break so please leave if you have to use the restroom or take a call.
Say: Let ’s dive in… Within our classrooms our students are very different. How are you able to teach your class with all of these differences? What are you currently doing? Take a minute to share how you are currently trying to meet each individual’s needs in your classroom. Do: Give everyone a minute to share with a partner. Increased Language Development Higher-level thinking prompts more use of language. Students have more exposure to the language of thought. New content vocabulary is clearly presented on the organizer.
Turn to your partner and share How are you engaging your students effectively other than assigning workbook pages, dittos, or copying from the board? How are you engaging students at higher-levels of thinking?
Graphic organizers are used as a visual aid to help students comprehend; structure information, access prior knowledge and make connections. This technique is a tool to see if students can interpret what is being taught. If a student can connect prior knowledge with what was learned and identify relationships between ideas, they are actively learning.
Graphic organizers are effective when relationships between facts, terms, and ideas make connections. Students are able to organize their own thoughts about a story, which leads to discussions and plan their own writing piece. Before instruction , you may use a graphic organizer to build on prior knowledge and new ideas. During instruction , graphic organizers can help students to actively reorganize key information. And, After instruction , students can construct their own organizers to organize key concepts.
When you assign a graphic organizer to students, what do you want them to be able to do? Identify information and write it down. There should be a transition to summarize the gathered information into a well organized writing piece. It is equally significant to increase fluency in writing as it is to increase fluency in reading. Both are aligned and graphic organizers helps to make a connection in developing higher level of thinking. Keep mind when planning your lesson to be intentional about how you want students to use the graphic organizer…Next Slide
and ensure students' thinking progress at higher levels using Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluate of Bloom ’s Taxonomy. You want students to be able to think at higher levels. Developing their vocabulary and reading more informational text will develop higher level of thinking.
Let ’s look at some examples of the next few slides to engage students.
When introducing students to a new graphic organizer, you should describe its purpose, model its use, and provide students with opportunities for guided practice. Here is a sample of a Venn Diagram. This particular graphic organizer can be use for a variety of uses and content areas. Students of all ages can engage with this. As the teacher introduce the lesson on the different types of transportation that was used years ago and compare it to today students are able to identify the various types of transportation over time and using pictures place them in its appropriate place. For grades 1 and up, … next slide
Students can identify using text. At your leisure, peruse the power-point handout for more ideas on how to engage students using the graphic organizers. As you see they can be used for all content areas.
Here is a comparison chart with using a Venn Diagram.
At this time, I want to engage you with using a graphic organizer. If you have a yellow folder, please transition to the Yellow table, Orange; Blue, and Green. In your group you will read a story and complete a authentic graphic organizer and share out. Take 15 minutes to complete this exercise. I ’m going to ask that each group share on how you aligned the text with the graphic organizer.
This is a Web graphic organizer to illustrate the main topic. Graphic organizers are visual tools that can be used for all content areas; there are a variety of graphic organizers that can be used for a variety of uses.
These are the outcomes we accomplished today. Please take a moment to review these and give me a thumbs up if we accomplished our goals. Thank you all for our session today! . Please take a moment to fill out the evaluation form, it is located in the back of your folder on green paper. I value and appreciate your feedback!
Also, you will find a yellow sheet with some websites addresses for additional graphic organizers.