The TP Knowledge for the Solution
The teaching strategies and methods I ‘ve chosen for my wicked problem project include the six-step process for teaching new vocabulary identified by Marzano and Pickering in Building Academic Vocabulary. Using a web browser, presentation software, and a projector with screen or interactive white board would enable teachers to find or create video or computer images to help students visualize the meaning of the vocabulary term. (Step 1 of 6)
Students would use presentation software like Prezi, SlideShare, PowerPoint, or GoogleDocs to create their electronic academic vocabulary notebook. They would also use drawing program software when they wanted or needed to draw an illustration for the notebook rather than finding one. (Steps 2 & 3 of 6)
On-line dictionaries and thesauruses would be used to aid students in adding clarification to their vocabulary words by adding a list of synonyms or antonyms, listing related vocabulary, or adding an additional picture or graphic. (Step 4 of 6)
A threaded discussion model would work well for having students discuss the vocabulary with each other. (Step 5 of 6)
The teaching strategies and methods I ‘ve chosen for my wicked problem project include the six-step process for teaching new vocabulary identified by Marzano and Pickering in Building Academic Vocabulary. Using a web browser, presentation software, and a projector with screen or interactive white board would enable teachers to find or create video or computer images to help students visualize the meaning of the vocabulary term. (Step 1 of 6)
Students would use presentation software like Prezi, SlideShare, PowerPoint, or GoogleDocs to create their electronic academic vocabulary notebook. They would also use drawing program software when they wanted or needed to draw an illustration for the notebook rather than finding one. (Steps 2 & 3 of 6)
On-line dictionaries and thesauruses would be used to aid students in adding clarification to their vocabulary words by adding a list of synonyms or antonyms, listing related vocabulary, or adding an additional picture or graphic. (Step 4 of 6)
A threaded discussion model would work well for having students discuss the vocabulary with each other. (Step 5 of 6)
PowerPoint templates for Jeopardy, Hollywood Squares, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Wheel of Fortune, Bingo, The $25,000 Pyramid, and Password will be used for involving students in vocabulary games for additional practice with the terms. (Step 6 of 6) This table outlines the six-step process and how I’m incorporating technology in each step to make the process more effective and engaging.
The TC Knowledge for the Solution
The TC Knowledge for the Solution
The technology makes the content in my problem more intellectually accessible because pictures and graphics present powerful visual information that increase students understanding of sometimes abstract or confusing vocabulary. Also, students would not always be able to come up with lists of synonyms, antonyms, or related words on their own. The use of an on-line thesaurus or dictionary would aid in this aspect of six-step process. The threaded discussion makes the content more intellectually accessible to students who do not like to speak up in the classroom setting. Students who rarely volunteer anything are often much more willing to share via the "written" word in a classroom setting.
The PC Knowledge for the Solution
The PC Knowledge for the Solution
The pedagogical strategies I have chosen to follow for this problem make the content more accessible to students because the strategies are engaging, collaborative, and represent "best practice" in the field of content specific vocabulary instruction. Students construct meaning of the vocabulary by describing terms in their own words. Using non-linguistic representations helps many learners "get" the content. Also because we are using a six-step approach ,scaffolding is "built-in" to the process.
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