overviewThis month's focus was all about summarizing and strategies that would help students create more focused thoughts. Vision 21 encompasses teachers who range from kindergarten all the way up to 12th grades. When planning we want to make sure that there is something for everyone! In this session we broke up the strategies into 4 groups: short text summaries, creative summaries, collaborative summaries, and games. Our presentation is below if you would like to check that out.
Short Text SummariesShort Text Summaries allow for students to focus on vocabulary. They also help student determine essential ideas and consolidate important details. We gave teachers 5 minutes to look through the 3 strategies: $2 Summaries, Text Messages, and Six Word Memoir. Below are the OneNote pages with information and examples of each strategy. Short Text Summary: Text MessagesSHORT TEXT SUMMARY: $2 SummarySHORT TEXT SUMMARY: 6 Word MemoirThen we had them pick one of the strategies and create a short activity for their particular grade level and content. After, they posted their ideas to a padlet to share with the rest of the group. To wrap-up and lead into our next group, we had them watch a Matt Miller video, "Is creative work REALLY worth the time in the classroom?" Then they used a short-text summarization strategy by summarizing the video in just 1 sentence. Creative SummariesThe next section we visited was using creative summary strategies. The benefit of this strategy is that it allows expression of creative and artistic abilities of students. Visuals ideas are also more easily retained for later review. Each group was given a strategy. They reviewed the strategy and then used poster paper and markers to summarize and give examples of how it could be used in their classroom. After each group finished, they hung up their posters around the room and shared out their information. Here are the 5 strategies that were discussed. Creative Summary: Bumper StickerCREATIVE SUMMARY: Text TransformationCREATIVE SUMMARY: STory BoardCREATIVE SUMMARY: WOrd SplashCREATIVE SUMMARY: Key Concept ClotheslineCollaborative SummariesThe benefits of using this type of strategy is so students can practice oral, written, and collaborative skills. It also involves movement in the classroom environment. To learn these strategies we played SNOWBALL FIGHT! Directions are below. But let me tell you, getting teachers to throw paper at each other at 5pm on Wednesday may have been a miracle, but they LOVED it! Collaborative Summary: Graffiti WallCOLLABORATIVE SUMMARY: Alphabet Sequential Round TableCOLLABORATIVE SUMMARY: Snowball FightCOLLABORATIVE SUMMARY: Numbered Heads TogetherCOLLABORATIVE SUMMARY: Sequence or TimelineCOLLABORATIVE SUMMARY: Speed DatingGamesTo end the session we played Red Light, Green Light. We showed a clip from the Office (the CPR episode, a fave of mine!) and then played the game. The description of the game is below. We asked questions regarding the clip they had just watched. The winner then had to summarize it. The game got competitive! I loved how this Vision 21 session turned out. Each session is about 90 minutes, so it is fast and furious. But the teachers love how they can learn strategies, apply them, and move on to another concept.
Hope you are able to find some helpful strategies as well! Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!
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