Purposeful Groups Purposeful Productive Grouping All students are

Purposeful Groups

Purposeful/ Productive Grouping All students are engaged All students are held accountable

Directions List the type of grouping you use in your classroom. On a scale of 1 -5, 5 being very effective, 1 being ineffective Rate the effectiveness of each type of grouping and explain what improvements you need to make to get to a 5. Share your ratings with your group and identify similarities

Best Practices/ Challenges Share 1 best practice and 1 challenge with your group On a poster: choose 1 best practice and 1 challenge to write down for our gallery walk

Gallery Walk Choose a poster to start at As you read each best practice, write a suggestion on your post-it to take that strategy to the next level. As you read each challenge, write one specific suggestion on a post-it to remedy that obstacle.

Reflection What can you take back to your department?

Student Generated High Order Thinking Questions

Analyze Example Questions Which events could not have happened? What was the turning point? What is a situation that is similar to this?

Evaluate Example Questions Why was the outcome the way that it was? Rank the importance of main events. Why was the author’s style effective or ineffective?

Create Examples How could the outcome have been different? Invent a new ending. Do you think there was a different way to tell this story? Explain.

Question starters How can we take it to the next level?

Purposeful Groups Reading Writing Speaking/ listening Research Guidelines: each table can only have 1 HS teacher 1 middle school teacher No more than 1 teacher from each elementary school

On your poster List all the instructional strategies that can be used for your area What data can we collect to assess its effectiveness?

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