Guiding Question:
How do we develop and sustain a classroom culture that supports equitable sensemaking?
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Discussion-Based AssessmentsParticipants will understand:
- Student resources are the ways of speaking, knowing, acting and valuing that students use to make sense of the world
- The importance of watching for, valuing and asking students to expand on the different resources they bring to make sense of the anchoring phenomenon routine
- How the OpenSciEd materials can help shift who and what are valued in the science classroom.
- How to co-construct norms that reflect the experiences and values of your students
- How to encourage and value students use of resources to make sense of phenomena including non-academic language, gesturing, metaphors, storytelling and other modes of expression
- The anchoring phenomenon routine and storyline for a focal unit.
Length:
- 1 hour – Reflection on Four Features of Classroom Culture and Instructional Strategies to Support Them
- 5 hours – Co-construct classroom norms that value student resources, experience the anchor for the unit, build the storyline for the unit, and experience key lessons.
- 1 hour –Reflect on the Anchoring Phenomenon and student resources and identify key goals and strategies for next school year around establishing classroom culture.
