Share+a+Discourse+Strategy

=== Please describe a specific strategy that you used to prompt student-to-student discourse such as Fold the Line or Cooperative Learning Groups or Peer Interviews. Briefly write the objective of this activity. === === Then, explain what was effective and reflect on improvements that could be made to enhance student discourse. ===

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Students worked in Cooperative Learning Groups and took turns creating Andy Warhol inspired Pop Art using Adobe Photoshop by actively interacting with one another and helping each other out to accomplish the same common task. Students were partnered up with another student that I selected before beginning the project. Students were then given a demonstration for getting started for first day and given a refresher lesson the following class. Each day students worked for the remainder of the period after the demonstration until completion on the 3rd and 4th days. Students were able to learn from their partner and once one student got to a particular step, their partner worked on their most recent steps. This working back and forth allowed students to become interdependent on each other to be successful. =====

Mr. Khalouf's Class
Students worked with Clock Buddies to learn about characteristics of diseases and infections, along with the causes of diseases. Mr. K. uses the clock buddies very effectively to not only pair students but also to randomly call on students to share as a class. Check them out IN ACTION: [] Note: This video is intended for professional development only. Please do not show students or others outside of this school.

Ms. Fuhrman's Class
=== In order to review vocabulary from the science book we read Adaptation, students made word chains of examples and non-examples of camouflage, as well as endangered species. Before this, we used the Frayer Model to explain these vocabulary, including writing the words in our native languages. We looked at lots of pictures of animals and some videos of animals such as raccoons, snakes, butterflies, tigers, and whales. Check out the activity. === [] Note: This video is intended for professional development only. Please do not show students or others outside of this school.