please sit with your grade level plc. thanks!. success starters: sparking student success right away
TRANSCRIPT
Pick a kid you want to pretend to be
O A student who is homelessO A popular student—boy or girlO A refugeeO A student with a learning disabilityO A really really shy student with
anxietyO A really really outgoing student who
talks a lot
Next:O Write down 8-10
things going through your mind (as the student you are pretending to be).
O If you are stuck, just write down 8-10 things that are on your mind.
What are success starters?
O High interest, relevant activities that spark high level thinking
O Attention getters tied to standards
O Taught at beginning of class
Make a listO With your PLC, make a list of some of
the high interest activities you already do with your classes
O There are no wrong answers! Think of the activities and assignments you love to teach and kids love to do! Feel free to include specific info—like what the lesson is about
O Hint: gallery walks, ABC brainstorms, whiteboard work….
Two questions:(students might be thinking at the beginning of a lesson)
O What does this have to do with me?
O Will I have a good chance at being successful?
O “Is the water safe for jumping in?"
We want students to think:
O This is interestingO This matters to
meO I CAN DO THISO We started this in
Chapters 1 and 2
Chapter 1Acceleration
1. Success Starter—generate thinking, purpose, relevance, and creativity
2. Clearly articulate learning goal and expectations
3. Scaffold essential prerequisite skills4. Vocabulary: introduce and review5. Introduce new concept6. Conduct formative assessments
frequently
The main ideaO “The opening
minutes of a lesson hold tremendous potential for all learners…”
O It’s a time when their brains are deciding if it is worth it or not
The good news is we already do all these things:
O Role playing—social studies and social roles
O Survey—science and genetic traitsO Prediction---integer sort/ fact opinion
sortO Questioning—question sun about a
conceptO Brainstorming—ABC sortO Concrete representations--pictures
We also know why it works:
O Connect to prior knowledgeO Hold high interest/ real world relevance O Explicitly tied to standards being taughtO Engage every learnerO Answer: “What’s this got to do with me?”O Be fast-paced and time consciousO Set up the lessonO Employ concrete representations before
abstract concepts
Chat and planO What do you think
about this?O Do you already do it? O If not, how would it
impact the beginning of your class?
O What is one you could use in the next couple of week?
Re-capO Student brains
are deciding during the opening minutes if the lesson is interesting to them
O Kinda like “flipping through the channels”
So what do we need to do?
O Make sure our opening minutes will:O Grasp student
curiosityO Make real-world
connectionsO Foster higher-level
thinkingO Enable success for ALL
studentsO Be tightly tied to
lesson’s learning goals