1. What is the number and name of the literacy strategy you have chosen?
#2 Bringing Academic Vocabulary to Life
2. While conducting research, identify the most important insights you learned (beyond the description in the Google Doc - Literacy Strategies @ TJ).
Using this strategy may get students involved in thinking about, using, and noticing new words both within and outside the classroom. Enhance students' language comprehension and production. 3. What insights have you gained about this strategy by talking to other group members?
Great strategy for classes using unfamiliar terms - such as foreign language, accounting, law, programming.
4. Which course and period did you first implement this literacy strategy? Explain why.
I chose Accounting since we cover and learn several terms in this class. The definition of the terms are sometimes difficult to understand since the Accounting concept is so new to high school students. By having a visual representation of the term, the students were able to comprehend and retain the "meaning" of the term.
5. What did you learn during this first implementation about the strategy, your students, your instruction?
Some students were very involved in the drawing portion of the assignment. For instance, for the term "Restrictive Endorsement", they were precise about drawing an exact replica of the back of a check. Other students just drew plain boxes. The main focus was for all students to "sign" the back of the check correctly for a restrictive endorsement and to have the correct definition written down.
Students were very involved in writing and discussing "who, where and how" the word may be used.
6. What did you learn when you saw another teacher implementing this strategy?
7. What did you learn from the feedback supplied to you by another teacher when they observed your implementation of this strategy?
Pat Severn: The students were actively engaged with the project. Some students were more concerned about how the picture looked. May want to set a reasonable time limit so some students don't spend too much time on the visual portions.
8. How did you change your thinking and/or implementation of this strategy based on your observation(s), feedback you received, and your experience implementing?
I enjoyed implementing this strategy and felt it was effective. I want to look at the test scores to see if there is an improvement in the scores because of this activity.
9. Do you anticipate using this strategy again? Explain your response.
Yes, students were engaged and seem to understand the reasoning for completing the strategy.
10. What questions, concerns, observations, insights do you want to address with your group members on Nov 7th?
I would like to talk about how easy this was to implement - very little prep time, but such a great engaging activity. I just made sure I had some paper pre-cut up paper ready to go.
