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Road to Blended Learning How to use TCI Strategies in a Middle School Classroom

Meet the Speakers! Dawn Smith Tom McClellan National Account Manager Customer Success Manager

What We’ll Be Covering ■ The Cooperative, Tolerant yet physically distanced and/or blended learning classroom-new features to the rescue! ■ The TCI Engagement Strategies at a distance-tips for success (Deep Dive into a Response Group-classroom discussions that build speaking and listening skills)

Getting to Know You

The Social Studies Environment ■ Creating a Cooperative Classroom Environment ■ Encouraging Active Citizenship ■ Discussing Current Events Rules for Civil Discussion ○

The TCI Student Subscription ■ Interactive, digital student textbook and notebook ■ Differentiated Text Full audio ○ Highlighting ○ Main Ideas ○ Spanish translation ○ All images have captions ○ All images can be enlarged ○ ■ Digitized Notebooks Students answers recorded in REAL TIME. ○ Teachers can score and give feedback directly to student in the ○ subscription. ■ Rich Primary Sources with questions ■ Online Assessments

The TCI Lesson Cycle ■ Preview Connects content to students' lives/prior ○ knowledge/generate interest. ■ Activity Reading is intertwined with TCI Strategy. ○ ■ Processing Formative/Authentic Assessment. ○ ■ Lesson Game* One in every lesson. ○ ■ Summative Assessment

Program Planning Content Planning Lesson Planning

TCI Engagement Strategies ✅ ✅ ✅ Skill Builder Visual Discovery Response Group Writing for Understanding Experiential Exercise Problem Solving Groupwork

The Response Group Response Group

Let’s Go Live!

The Response Group- Yes, you can! Modifying Response Group for Physical Distancing ■ Interact on a shared document for planning, discussing. ■ Create virtual meetings to discuss, inform, and collaborate on project and task. ■ Dramatizations could be recorded individually, shared, and then merged. ■ Assign individual tasks rather than group work when necessary.

The Response Group- Yes, you can! Modifying Response Group for Blended Learning Classroom ■ Create virtual discussion groups. ■ Use shared online documents per group for discussing tasks. ■ Assign students specific tasks/questions so each student is accountable for a share of the workload. ■ Use fishbowl discussions-teacher choose a group to share while other students evaluate their discussion. ■ Find creative ways to share work.

Apply It! What is one adaptation that you want to try and why does that one interest you most at this time?

Visual Discovery Visual Discovery

Visual Discovery- Yes, you can! Modifying Visual Discovery for Physical Distancing ■ Students may sit in individual chairs while teachers ask the initial questions ■ Students can use individual laser pointers (fireflies) to point out what they see. ■ For “Magic Paper”, students can come up and use whiteboard individually to show what they see. ■ Act It Outs: teachers can mark spaces on the floor that meet the current expectations of physical distancing. ■ Students can do a Reader’s Theatre based on a collaborative script. ■ Students can create speech or thought bubbles on plain paper to share their ideas with the rest of the class.

The Visual Discovery- Yes, you can! Modifying Visual Discovery for Blended Learning Classroom ■ Teachers can make a screencast introducing the basics of the image. Ask students to evaluate the image and conjure ideas around the purpose of items in an image. Use sentence starters to keep the students on track. ■ Students can analyze the images in class and do the reading associated with the image at home. ■ Utilize Seesaw, Google Slides, etc. to record the students doing an Act-it-out.

Skill Builder Skill Builder

The Skill Builder- Yes, you can! Modifying Skill Builder for Physical Distancing ■ Spread out the placards and limit the number of students visiting placards at a given time. ■ Model some cards/questions; then have students work individually on the rest. ■ Use larger rooms, hallways, even outdoors. ■ Do a coordinated gallery walk. ■ Make copies for each student. When discussing the cards/questions, have students face off with their desks so that there is six feet between them.

The Skill Builder- Yes, you can! Modifying Skill Builder for Blended Learning Classroom ■ Have students read the text for the sections that were not covered in class. ■ Push out the placards/handouts to students digitally. Students can complete on their own. Or ■ If possible, have students work together on Zoom or Google Meet to complete the sections. ■ Have students fill in their own notebooks (on TCI) and then provide feedback/comments. ■ Create a screencast where you cover a baseline amount of information to set students up to complete the task associated in an independent manner.

Questions

Key Takeaways Students are digital natives-the biggest challenges here are for us as educators! Just like in the classroom, modeling your expected outcome is essential. Rich discussions and engagement can take place in any setting!

REFLECTION What’s something in this session that… Squared with what you already knew. Made you view something from a new angle . “Completed the circle ” for you.

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