Learning Challenge Lessons, Primary: 20 Lessons to Guide Young Learners Through the Learning Pit (First Edition) (Corwin Teaching Essentials)
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- Synopsis
- Cognitive conflict: Cognitive conflict is created when contradictions are identified and options are examined. It is the disagreement between two or more of the ideas or opinions a person holds concurrently. It is this conflict, or ‘wobble,’ that causes more reflection and the questioning of assumptions.Concepts: These are general ideas that group things together according to accepted characteristics.Construct: This is shorthand for Stage 3 of the Learning Challenge in which participants construct meaning by connecting, explaining, and examining patterns and relationships.Cumulative talk: This is talk that is characterised by repetitions, confirmations, and elaborations.Dialogue: Dialogue is conversation and enquiry. Dialogue combines the sociability of conversation with the skills of framing questions and constructing answers.Discussion: It is the action or process of talking about something and exchanging ideas.Disputational talk: This is talk that is critical of individuals (and their ideas), focuses on differences, is competitive, and is all about being seen to ‘win.’Enquiry: Enquiry is a process of questioning ideas, information, and assumptions and of augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or solving a problem.Eureka: Taken from the Greek word for ‘I found it,’ the eureka moment is reached as students climb out of the pit with a new sense of clarity and understanding.Exploratory talk: It is talk that is characterised by longer exchanges, use of questions, reflection, explanation, and speculation.Initiate-Response-Evaluate (IRE) model: Teachers use this most common pattern of classroom talk to ensure that pupils remember what they already know. This is not what we mean by dialogue.Knowledge: Knowledge is acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles. It is generally considered to be a step removed from understanding, which is when someone is able to relate, explain, and evaluate.Metacognition: Literally meaning ‘thinking about thinking,’ metacognition is an important part of dialogue. It encourages students to think about the way in which they are thinking, how they are using the strategies, and how they might improve for next time.Pit: This is a metaphor to identify the state of confusion a person feels when holding two or more conflicting thoughts or opinions in their mind at the same time.Reflection: This is giving serious thought or consideration to a thought, idea, or response.Skills: Skills are the abilities to carry out those processes necessary for gaining understanding, completing tasks or performing in any given context.Success criteria: Success criteria summarise the key steps or ingredients students need to accomplish the learning intention. They include the main things to do, include, or focus on.Understanding: This is the mental process of a person who comprehends. It includes an ability to explain cause, effect, and significance as well as to understand patterns and how they relate to each other.Wobble: This is a user-friendly term to describe a state of cognitive conflict.Zone of proximal development: This model by Lev Vygotsky describes the zone between actual and potential development.
- Copyright:
- 2019
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- 9781544337951
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781544330464, 9781544337975, 9781544337944
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Date of Addition:
- 02/26/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Challenging Learning, Ltd.
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- Language:
- English
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- Nonfiction, Education
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