Task Design: Demonstrate

DEMONSTRATE

We want to bring thinking alive. How can we show our students what thinking looks like ? We can model our thinking processes and provide examples.

• • Direct Instruction: With a .6 effect size, the intentional strategic events in direct instruction can help students connect to the content.  It is best used with new knowledge.
    • Share expectations and learning intentions (audio, video, typed on page)
    • Plan for lecture (short, in clear steps), modeling, and a check for understanding (video, images, text coupled with an assessment question (which can be drawn, recorded, typed---Kahoot, Arc Studio Links to an external site. in Canvas, or check out this Seesaw tip Links to an external site..)
    • Guided practice with feedback from instructor (This can be done  via discussion tool, shared google doc, TodaysMeet, Google Meet). Ask students a lot of questions to spur their thinking! 
    • Cues are provided
    • Independent practice (related to but different than what has been done already)
  • Think Aloud (Think Along): Is a highly structured strategy that really allows a teacher to model thinking when reading or completing a task. The teacher essentially walks the students through their own wonderings and approaches, and explains why they are doing certain things and how they came to certain conclusions. You can view a planning guide for think alouds here. Download here. 
  • Worked Examples: Showing students how to work through a problem is only effective if it is done more than one time. That makes remote learning a great place for worked examples.
    • You can use screencastomatic (Links to an external site.), Loom (Links to an external site.), ShowMe app (Links to an external site.), or a phone to video you doing the problem while you explain your thinking
    • Explain why the technique you are using is efficient!
    • Alternate worked problems with practice problems. You can even do this in a video by saying something like "stop the video and work out this problem on your own. We will check it when you come back." Or organize the page in this same way: video clip, practice, video clip, practice. 

View video examples of each of these at the Distance Learning Playbook Resource Page, Module 7.