For the month of September, our Vision 21 meeting focused on critical vocabulary strategies. We chose this topic because no matter the grade level or subject, the understanding of vocabulary is going to be critical to student's learning. Many of the strategies presented come from Marzano's research. We used a station-rotation model to practice each vocabulary strategy. Groups of 4-5 rotated through the 6 stations. They each had 5 minutes to complete the strategy. Three of the stations were manned by myself, @J_Bimmerle and @AlcornMeghan. This helped us explain some of the stations that needed more specific directions. After each group had a chance to go through each station, we took time to reflect on the strategies presented. We think this is one of the most critical parts of the PD. Teachers can share out what strategies they think will work for their students, parts of the strategies they think won't work, or other variations of the strategy. The teachers are then given an adequate amount of time to look at their curriculum documents to see if there is a place to work some of the new strategies into their lesson plans. Strategy #1: Frayer Model
STRATEGY #2: Slap Card
STRATEGY #3: Word Clouds
STRATEGY #5: NON-LINGUISTIC Representation
STRATEGY #6: Odd One out
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