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Video Contents
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Introduction
Clip | Technique | Description |
Strategic Investment: From Procedure to Routine | Paper Passing (Back in Ten): Doug McCurry encourages students to pass in their papers faster and faster with Positive Framing. |
Gathering Data on Student Mastery (Chapter 1)
Clip | Primary Technique | Additional Techniques | Description |
Reject Self-Report | Culture of Error | Spelling Words: Amy Youngman collects data on student mastery by quickly scanning each student's answer to see whether it is correct. |
Standardize the Format | Culture of Error, Tracking, Not Watching | Disposition: Meaghan Reuler immediately identifies student misunderstandings thanks to materials that make mistakes easy to findand to some careful looking. |
Show Me | Excavate Error | Good Morning, Williams: Bryan Belanger uses hand signals to gauge student mastery. He responds quickly in consideration of the extent of the errors. |
Show Me | Culture of Error | Go to IP: Jon Bogard uses Show Me to identify and correct common errors. Some students review; some earn independent practice. |
Affirmative Checking | Culture of Error, Name the Steps, 100% Cycle | Here's the Deal: Bob Zimmerli sets checkpoints where students must check their answers with him before proceeding to more difficult problems. |
Affirmative Checking | Do It Again, Positive Framing | Green Sticky Note: Hilary Lewis uses a ticket system to check students' work before they move on to independent practice. |
Acting on the Data and the Culture of Error (Chapter 2)
Clip | Primary Technique | Additional Techniques | Description |
Culture of Error | Show Me | Who Changed Their Mind: Katie Bellucci normalizes error by encouraging students who corrected their work to raise their hands and be proud! |
Culture of Error | Intros: Jason Armstrong tells students he expects some disagreement and doesn't care for now what the right answer is. |
Setting High Academic Expectations (Chapter 3)
Clip | Primary Technique | Additional Techniques | Description |
No Opt Out | Emotional Constancy | Immigrant: David Javsicas stays steady at the helm and sticks with a student who declines to answer a question. |
No Opt Out | Negative Five Halves: Derek Pollak solicits help from the class when a student is very near to a correct answer. |
No Opt Out | Cold Call, Do It Again | Little Brown Insects: Jamie Davidson gets a student to improve her expression in reading after another student models what it means to snap. |
No Opt Out | Targeted Questioning, Culture of Error | Clever Fox: Shadell Purefoy (Noel) asks a student to repeat a correct answer after she's unable to answer the first time. |
Right Is Right | Fabric: Grace Ghazzawi holds out for an all-the-way-right answer. |
Right Is Right | Aunt Alexandra: Maggie Johnson pushes students to use precise language to describe a particular scene. |
Right Is Right | Positive Framing |
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