Module 6: PowerPoint Responses

Reading Strategies PowerPoint

Using think alouds, word walls, anticipation guides, and KWL charts are all things I’ve used with my primary grade level students and have seen great results with. These strategies can be developed further to work with students in upper grade levels as well and the PowerPoint provided some great strategies to do this. WORDO was something I had never heard of before, but it seems like it could be very beneficial to students, especially by making it harder and calling out the definition. It’s a great way to improve a student’s vocabulary! Many of the strategies, like RAFT, in the PowerPoint incorporated writing with reading, which is critical and helps a reader to develop. PIC and 3-2-1 Summarizing would be great to use with a guided reading group. This PowerPoint would have been a big help when I worked with several students that were reading well beyond their grade level during my student teaching. I cannot wait to use some of these strategies with my next class.

Assessment of Cognitive, School, and Home Factors PowerPoint

I’ve never heard of the majority of the tests in this PowerPoint before. Although now I understand how each test works and has it’s own positives and negatives. The Assessment of Capacity intelligence test is the only one I have heard of before reading the PowerPoint. I did like how it said, “low test scores cause students to have low expectations of themselves.” I’ve seen this happen with many of my students. They become discouraged with themselves because of a low test grade. I also didn’t know this test didn’t measure problem solving skills. The Wechsler Scales test seems to measure a large variety of things including: vocabulary, comprehension, reasoning, sequencing, memory, and speed. Of all of the tests I read about it seems to provide the assessor with the most information. I also liked the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. I’ve worked with many students that are shy and this would have been excellent to use with them, as well as ESOL students.

Differentiated Instruction Video PowerPoint

Differentiated instruction can seem difficult at first, but it is so beneficial to our students. It meets their needs on their instructional level while still teaching the required content. It’s not “dumbing down” the content, but rather developing challenging tasks for a wide variety of learners. Ultimately, using differentiated instruction will provide teachers with the opportunity to have a student centered classroom in which the teacher is able to scaffold the material for the students.