Teaching+on+Block+Schedule



Dr. Melissa Shields, NBCT mshields@alsde.edu @mjshields


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 * Poll Everywhere Surveys **
 * [|How many years have you been teaching?] **
 * [|What's your favorite teacher's name?] **


 * PPT Presentation: [[file:Woodlawn Schedule Pres.pptx]] (August 2017) **


 * Helpful Resources and Literature **
 * Block Schedule Teaching Strategies - A Toolbox of Effective Teaching Ideas
 * [|Pros and Cons of Block Schedule]
 * [|Block Schedule Revisited] (some great descriptions of successful strategies)


 * Five Skills We Need to Teach On a Block Schedule **
 * Planning - The ability to develop a pacing guide or syllabus for the course in nine-week periods, which includes weekly and daily planning.
 * Variety - The ability to use several instructional strategies effectively.
 * Vision - The skill to design and maintain an environment that allows for great flexibility and creativity.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Management - The desire and skill to be an effective classroom manager.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Openness - The freedom to share the ownership of teaching and learning with the students.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Patty Blume's Recommended Schedule - 5 Steps **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Skill/Concept Review......................10-15 minutes
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Direct Instruction............................30-40 minutes
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Shared practice....................................20 minutes
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Individual Practice...........................20-30 minutes
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Closure/ Reflection.........................10-15 minutes

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">1. Skill/Concept Review.............................................10-15 minutes <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Great time for a quick formative assessment! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">HINTS! Take attendance and collect homework during this time.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Quick write
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Word sort]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Cloze activity]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Sponges
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15.6px;">Embedded Digital Assessments (Computers, tables, cell phones)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">2. Direct Instruction.................................................30-40 minutes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Interactive lecture (i.e.: 10/2 or [|"Chunk and Chew"]format)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Cornell notetaking](with discussion during or afterward) [|Video Demo]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Shared reading or read aloud of text
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Introduction of new concept or skill with handouts or student note taking

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">3. Shared practice.......................................................20 minutes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Small groups work collectively on task to practice skill or concept presented during Direct Instruction time.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Strategies
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Guided Reading - [|Demo Video]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Numbered heads]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Writing task
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Jigsaw]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Response Groups
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Fishbowl Activity]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">High School [|Demo Video] (Students analyzing and discussing Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail") - starts at 7:27

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">4. Individual Practice...............................................20-30 minutes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Standards-based assignment work time
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Opportunity for individual conferencing
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Opportunity for students to clarify progress on tasks

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">5.Closure/ Reflection...............................................10-15 minutes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Metacognitive Journal - (What did I learn/ How did I learn it? / How will I use it?)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Reflection on a reading completed in class
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Time for students to set up for homework

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Classroom Rounds Evidence Document


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">3 Step Block Class - Robert Canady **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Block expert Robert Lynn Canady recommends that we spend our days coaching instead of lecturing.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">We should shift from talking all day to our students to planning for student to work all day. “The teachers lead it; the students do it.”
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Canady developed a 3-step block schedule lesson plan based on Bloom’s Taxonomy.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">It is not a fixed 30-30-30 minutes.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">It is flexible and adaptable to the teacher’s and students’ needs.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Step 1 – EXPLANATION
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher in charge and may teach in traditional manner
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Bloom’s Taxonomy - Remember
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Prior Knowledge
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Formative Assessments
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Mini-Lecture
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Make Lesson Relevant and Encourage Interest

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Step 2 – APPLICATION
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> The “heart” of the class and should take the most time
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students are the workers and teacher is the coach. “The teacher moves to the sidelines.”
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Bloom's Taxonomy - Understand and Apply
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Examples:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students working in pairs or groups
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Socratic Seminar
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Digital Learning
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Interviews
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Simulations
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Think-Pair-Share
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Debates

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Step 3 – SYNTHESIS
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">“Never let a class end without a class understanding the essential elements." Check for understanding and reteach if necessary.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Bloom's Taxonomy - Analyze, Evaluate, and Create
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Make sure the content is relevant. “Why do I have to know this?”
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">What would Romeo and Juliet’s prom song be?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Recall for next day. Use a “hook” if possible.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Stations in Block Schedule Class **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Organize time by learning stations in which each station requires students to perform a task.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Sample Schedule
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Introduction – 15 min.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Station 1 – 20 min.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Station 2 – 20 min.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Station 3 – 20 min.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Close and Review – 10 min.

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