Elementary New Teacher Professional Reading Library
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- Welcome!
- Article #1: The 7 Habits of Highly Affective Teachers
- Article #2: Achieving Academic Excellence
- Article #3: Ask Yourself: Are Students Engaged?
- Article #4: Being Human in the Classroom
- Article #5: Facilitating Engagement by Differentiating Independent Reading
- Article #6: Writing Process or Writing Workshop
- Article #7: Math Questioning Ideas for the Classroom
- Article #8: Collecting and Examining Life
- Article #9: Social Studies are Essential to a Well-Rounded Education
- Article #10: The 4 Ways we can train teachers to use technology that hasn't been invented yet!
- Course Reflection
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Processing Strategy: Text RenderingTo help students get to the main point of a text, we can ask them to try "Text Rendering" which means choosing a sentence that speaks to you, a phrase, and a word that summarizes the main point. Please note that the sentence, phrase, and word do not need to come from the same place in the text.
Text Rendering
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Mike DeCandido
Sentence: “Elementary teachers spend more time throughout the day with their students and that interaction allows for easier and more plentiful teaching opportunities than occur in later grades.”
Phrase: Rigorous and relevant education
Word: Inquiry
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Lauren Smith
Sentence: “Often, all that is required is a change of attitude and the willingness to restructure education so that it prepares students for life, not just the state test or for more school.”
Phrase: “…but equally important, they must also understand and conceptualize relevant applications for the content being covered”
Word: Changing
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Sara Creely
Sentence: "In too many schools, these components [curriculum, instructions, and assessment] are approached as 3 separate sequential steps, with assessment being the finish line.”
Phrase: State tests should not be perceived as a tool for measuring everything…
Word: realistic
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Jillian Simpkins (Flasher)
Sentence: "A rigorous and relevant education is a product of effective learning, which takes place when standards, curriculum, instruction, and assessment iterrelate and reinforce each other."
Phrase: " state assessments have become the finish line"
Word: Relevance
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Lauren Devine
Sentence: "All students benefit because they will be challenged to achieve academic excellence, which ultimately boils down to applying rigorous knowledge to unpredictable, real-world situations, such as those that drive our rapidly changing world … and the tests will take care of themselves."
Phrase: "rigor and relevence"
Word: integrating subjects (sorry, that was two..)
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Elizabeth Detwiler
Sentence: "When students are engaged in the learning process, real achievement takes place, and their chances to excel at what they do increase."
Phrase: "...ability to apply high-rigor knowledge in a relevant, real-world setting..."
Word: Rigor
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Kathy Le
Sentence: Many teachers would agree that the most effective means of teaching is answering students’ questions, because they are showing interest in the subject and will remember the answer.
Phrase: most effective learning occurs in the elementary grades
Word: Relevance
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Kathleen O'Brien
Sentence- “When students are engaged in the learning process, real achievement takes place, and their chances to excel at what they do increase.”
Phrase- “[…]willingness to restructure education so that it prepares students for life, not just the state test or for more school.”
Word- “relevance”
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Erin Chrencik
Sentence - "The focus on state assessments as the one true measure of academic excellence is slowly but surely limiting our young people's chances of experiencing any semblance of the success in life that we expect for them and that they believe school will provide for them."
Phrase - "Incorporating more rigorous and relevant instruction..."
Word - relevance
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Lauren Malakoff
Sentence: “The focus on state assessment as one true measure of academic excellence is slowly but surely limiting out young people’s chance of experiencing any semblance of the success in life that we expect for them and that they believe school will provide for them.”
Phrase: “Ability to apply high-rigor knowledge in a relevant, real-word setting”
Word: Mind-set
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Melissa Hackett
Sentence: "Elementary students are uninhibited in their enthusiasm to learn and not afraid to ask questions."
Phrase: "it is important to maintain a consistent level of rigor and relevance"
Word: "real-world"
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Casey Torok- Achieving Academic Execellence: Text Rendering
Sentence:
"Incorporating more rigorous and relevant instruction in classrooms is a realistic goal and will
yield immediate results in students’ enthusiasm to learn."
Phrase:
'maintain a consistent level of rigor and relevance.'
Word:
real-world
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Andrea Keller
Sentence: "Incorporating more rigorous and relevant instruction in classrooms is a realistic goal and will yield immediate results in students’ enthusiasm to learn."
Phrase:"...the most effective means of teaching is answering students’ questions..."
Word: enthusiasm
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Tiffany Vetere
Sentence: “A rigorous and relevant education is a product of effective learning, which takes place when standards, curriculum, instruction, and assessment interrelate and reinforce each other.”
Phrase: “…students understand and retain knowledge best when they have applied it in a practical, relevant setting.”
Word: rigor
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Kacie Gallen
Sentence: "When students are engaged in the learning process, real achievement takes place, and their chances to excel at what they do increase."
Phrase: "...the willingness to restructure education so that it prepares students for life..."
Word: relevance
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Ashley Hill
Sentence: “What is important is that students enter the global economy with the ability to apply what they learned in school to a variety of ever-changing situations that they couldn’t foresee before graduating.”
Phrase: “…state assessments have become the finish line.”
Word: “realistic”
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Lindsay Toub
Sentence: "Studies have shown that students understand and retain knowledge best when they have applied it in a practical, relevant setting."
Phrase: "most effective learning occurs in the elementary grades"
Word: "rigor"
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Madison Beveridge
Phrase- “..getting all students to attain minimum proficiency
on state tests has begun to reveal some alarming trends”
Sentence- “Studies have shown that students understand and retain knowledge best when they have applied it in a practical, relevant setting.”
Word- opportunities
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Danielle Hallman
Sentence:
"Incorporating more rigorous and relevant instruction in classrooms is a realistic goal and will
yield immediate results in students’ enthusiasm to learn."
Phrase:
“...the student is required to think in complex ways—to analyze, compare, create, and evaluate.”
Word:
"Interconnections"
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Megan Riley
Sentence: "When students are engaged in the learning process, real achievement takes place, and their chances to excel at what they do increase.
Phrase: "...allow students to explore for themselves the relevance of what they are learning."
Word: Relevance
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Samantha Wilkes
Sentence: “Teachers should be inspired to be the ones who define academic excellence through a rigorous and relevant education and not delegate that responsibility to the state testing programs.”
Phrase: “what is relevant to some is not always relevant to others”
Word: excellence
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Samantha Wismer
Sentence: "What is important is that students enter the global economy with the ability to apply what they learned in school to a variety of ever-changing situations that they couldn't foresee before graduating."
Phrase: "students are engaged in the learning process, real achievement takes place..."
Word: effective
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Brittany Kelly
Sentence:
The student’s ability to apply high-rigor knowledge in a relevant, real-world setting needs to be the true finish line; instead, it has become an afterthought.
Phrase:
State tests should not be perceived as a tool for measuring everything…
Word:
Effective
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Melissa Gleason
Sentence - "When students are engaged in the learning process, real achievement takes place, and their chances to excel at what they do increase."
Phrase - "...application in the world outside of school."
Word - relevance
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Jenna Rendeiro
Sentence:
Students become better problem-solvers when they are given the opportunity to find original solutions to problems and reflect on what worked and what did not.
Phrase:
...the tests will take care of themselves.
Word:
Instruction
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Kira Marchione
Sentence: When students are engaged in the learning process, real achievement takes place, and their chances to excel at what they do increase.
Phrase: state assessments have become the finish line.
Word: relevant