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1 – 200 of 281 Newer› Newest»I have the honor of being the GT cordinator and a Resource teacher at my school. Therefore, I got to introduce a scholarly behavior today to my Resource learners. We were working on the Reading objective Comparing/contrasting, so we employed our critical thinking skills in analyzing the picture and biography of Michael Phelps and Michael Jordan. The learners were guided to use Details as the scholarly icon. They got to describe, identify traits, prove with evidence and differentiate. It was amazing to see their engagement in the lesson.
That is so wonderful! Nothing is better than seeing your students engaged.
I made and posted a set of the icons in my classroom. We discussed the value of the icons as an intellectual tool(s). We also discussed how the pictures stand for the thinking strategies.
BIG IDEA: I used to end my lesson on prefixes.
RULES: I used with our spelling words / the doubling rule.
DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW: We drew our vocabulary words.
So far so good!
Yes, I am late on my posting. But now I am here enjoying our ongoing conversation about G/T. I have posted the Thinking Icons in my classroom, and the students started asking questions about them. That is wonderful because from there we start a dialogue on G/T strands.
I'm a Fifth Grade teacher and have present the scholarly behavior on a daily basis thorughout my instruction. The icons have helped my visual learners understand the importance of their daily behavior and expectations. My students are critical thinkers and love to discuss their ideas and enjoy practicing activities through foldables and creativity. Students are engaged and participate through group activities. The icons have helped my students understand the difference between a learner and a scholar. Now they are eager to leave behind the learner behavior and acquire the scholarly behavior.
I showed each Thinking Icon to my students and since it was something new to them, all their hands started too jump up. They were so curious as to what they were and what they meant. It was amazing to see their curiosity rise so quickly!
My students loved the stories online from storylineonline.com. Thank you for the great ideas and strategies to teach our students.
I can't wait for the next session.
Grissel Medina
I introduced scholarly behavior to my class as a day to day responsibility, a job, a behavior. In other words, I explained to them that their behavior speaks loudly and has consequences. The consequences can either be good or bad. I also explained to them that good behavior ususally has good consequences and you can usually tell in someones grades what their behavior is like. I explained that a scholarly students models good behavior.
Reply to Nestor
You are not late to blogging, I am late to posting my thinking Icons, thanks for reminding me.
I am still working on introducing the Thinking Icons, but from what I saw at the training, I know that they will benefit my students. I am also starting to notice the differences in my students and my learners.
I have learned so much in just one short training. I am excited to explore these new strategies for learning and keeping my GT students engaged.
I started thinking of creative ways to use the icons in my classroom so that every student can access them and they can become a vital part to our classroom. I have thought of some really creative ways to get both the GT students and my other students involved in a lesson by adding varying activities that they get to choose from. Sometimes, it can be anything from drawing a picture to hel them remember or even writing a letter to someone to help them learn it. Either way, it gets them thinking in a way that is best for them!
I really like that vision&purpose09 has been using the icons with their resource class. I think that these ideas should not be limited to only GT students because so many could benefit from having broader ideas and pictures with those icons! Great idea:)
I enjoyed the training and learned many things that I will implement in my classroom. I now have the icons and have been able to move up on the Bloom's taxonomy, now that I know the content we learned last time. I really liked the activity of making the flip cards.
Today was DAY TWO . . .
I have made a "Scholar" poster to put up in my room. I think it will promote a good conversation.
Today, one thing we did was practicing to make a concept based planning sheet using a universal concept, generalizations, learning focus, objective, etc. We were given the byrdseed site that will help me make a great planning 'sentence'. I can also use this on my lesson plans.
It is going to take a bit of practice, but I can do it!
I would really like to use the story line site in my classroom too. All I need now is a laptop and some speakers!
I am WAY late in posting...but I'm finally here. After Day One, I wanted to post the icons in my classroom, but I have not had time to do that yet. I'm struggling a little with classroom management, and some of my students are giving me problems...so, I haven't been able to focus as much on this. So far, I really like the ideas that we have learned in this course!
As a class we discussed scholarly behavior. The students came up with the examples/phrases and we posted them in our room near the classroom rules. Already the students have referred to them to describe themselves or others.
I found that the training had some helpful things involved but wasn't really applicable to the situations that most teeachers face on a daily basis. The issue of having these higher leveled children in the same room as studetnts who can't read or are emotionally disturbed really hinders the effectiveness of what you all are teaching us. Although I do appreciate your information.
I will not post the thinking icons in my room, however I will introduce the concept of "systems". The theme of my classroom is Hollywood. I plan to allow the students to turn the class into a city. We will elect a mayor and I will appoint people to jobs such as policeman, lawyer, doctor, and teacher. The rest of the class will take on roles of businessmen and women by starting their own businesses. We will switch at the end of 6 weeks. Along the way I will guide them in learning how systems work together, how they are interdependent, how they are composed of several parts just like a city. This will be my first time introducing this concept so wish me luck!
The first day was great! I thought all the trainers were energetic and engaging. I related so well with the examples given about GT students with my own students. I can’t wait to finish up the rest of the 30 hours.
I thought the day was great. Good presentations and information. I am looking forward to the rest of the instruction. I have the icons posted and my partner and I are involved in a math/ela project that is connecting Fibonacci numbers and poems.
Day one really helped me get a better understanding of the GT program. It made me realize that I still have to learn alot. I am really looking forward for the next presentation.
I really liked Calle's ideas about integrating the strategies creatively in the classroom. I really want to integrate the icons, but need guidance on how exactly to start implementing them slowly, but surely in my room... Any suggestions? Thank you, this is great!
I introduced scholary behavior by initially posting the scholars poster. This serves as a reminder to the students what scholary thinkers do while also presenting the symbols. Furthermore, I have noticed myself responding with "why" when a student answers a question incorrectly. I have noticed the benefits of asking why rather than just moving on because the student has the opportunity to reflect, analyze, and then self correct, if possible. This is such a simple, easy tool that really helps the student's cognitive process. This is especially useful for the GT students.
I am really late in posting a comment, but I'm finally doing it. I thought the first day was helpful. I learned many new things that I didn't know and hope to learn a lot more this Wed. I really liked the storyonline website and would like to know about more websites that I can use for my students.
The class and I discussed scholarly behavior and created a graphic organizer on chart paper. We then modeled what it looked like when we were being scholars. Also, we got organized by cleaning out our desks. My students really took ownership of what it means to be a scholar and I can hear them discussing choices using the term "scholarly behavior." Great for 1st graders!
I felt the afternoon session was beneficial as we discussed some of the legal aspects and requirements of the GT program. As teachers we are legally bound by so many different pieces of legislation, yet we often do not even know what it says. I also appreciated the flip chart which I am looking forward to investigating further in our next session.
I have used to storyonline with my kids, and they love it! Also we have been talking about details in our reading and writing, with the hopes of introducing the details icon asap.
Last week, I got to introduce a scholarly behavior today to the whole class. We were working starting the day, and I explained this is something that most of them do, but I just wanted to remind them how important this behavior is. The learners were guided to use as many traits and exhibit the scholarly behavior. It was amazing to see their engagement in the subject of scholarly behavior.
I don't know if I am doing this right or if I am in the right place. I got a late start on posting about last week. Last week's session was helpful to get me to see different ideas that I could incorporate into my classroom even though I do not have any GT kids in my class. I especially liked the clebrity story reading. I think that my class would really enjoy hearing stories from other people. The other wonderful idea was the different projects. However, I don't think it is something that I would be able to take on this year.
I am encouraging students to ask good questions, to be involved, come to school with tools and take risks
I enjoyed learning about the online stories. What a great way to differentiate for ALL learners. I also enjoyed the video about the research class. This week I've focused on making real world applicable comments in my classes. It has sparked some pretty cool discussions, even with my low-level kids.
I really enjoyed the morning session and the interest survey. Though I have not used them yet, I would like to use the icons a little more for graphic organizers in writing.
I started a conversation about the word scholarly. Most of my students are English Language Learners and didn't know what it meant so it was a very interesting conversation in the beginning. Once I gave them a very basic definition the examples from the class really began to flow. I have also put some of the icons up around the room and I have seen some of the students looking and talking about them to each other but they haven't asked me about them quite yet.
I introduced my students to Renzulli and they are extremely excited to work and learn with fun activities.
I liked learning about the online stories and I can see how students can enjoy this. I also enjoyed the video that showed how real life can be introduced to a classroom. All students can participate in an activity like this.
Day One was very informative and definitely useful. The next day I went to storylineonline.com and my students were so enthused about this website, they loved it! I am a bilingual teacher but used the website during the ESL block! My students understand enough English to get be engaged with the story.
I introduced scholarly behavior through using my work as an example. I took a paper I wrote in 6th grade, made it into an overhead and we edited it together. We talked about how all writers need to edit and how we grow as writers. We talked about how the classroom works most effectively when we all have scholarly behavior.
I learned a lot from the G/T training, but I made sure from day one my students were going to behave scholarly. Maybe my meaning was a bit different, but they understand the concept quite well. I can't wait to learn more.
I have introduced Scholarly Behavior through talking a lot about going to college. My school has a 90% poverty rate and many of them think of college as beyond their reach. When I talk to them about college, they always ask questions about how I got there and the things you have to go in order to get there. They are always eager to learn and show that they can do their best work.
Sorry for the late reply...I told them that at my training the word scholarly behavior was used and that we should act scholarly. That provoked good conversation...they are now using it in sentences and pointing out when they are using scholarly behavior. (Their a hilarious group)
I loved the idea of telling stories by the celebrities on the storylineonline.com. I am a Math enrichment teacher and I am just waiting to use one of the stories related to everyday math.
Scholars spend time pondering ideas and problems. They exercise academic humility by realizing that they will always have more to learn. Scholars have both short and long term goals for themselves. They have a vision. Scholars come prepared to learn. They bring their tools with them and are ready with "minds on".
The main thing I learned on the first training was to make sure my students were aware of the universal concept. It could be as easy as just posting the word "conflist" on the board, and questions will rise throughout the days.
Leticia Martinez
We were doing a lesson on bats and I showed my kids Stellaluna online from storylineonline.net. They really enjoyed it! It is a great resource and I look forward to using it in the future.
I use the story online with my students. They really enjoyed it. My class is in spanish so I was able to use it as ESL.
I discussed with my students how to develop a good schoolarly behavieor. We made a list in our room with examples and everyone is trying to follow them. Also, I introduced some thinking icons. When I posted them on the board, they did not know what pictures meant. I let them think and express their ideas about the icons. It is amazing how their imagination can fly. I explained the meaning of each icon and how we are going to use them in our learning process.
Sorry so late! This is my first time ever blogging. On the first day of GT training, I enjoyed learning about the online stories. This is such a cool resource for my students. Love it! The icons are also a great tool to use. I have introduced them to my students. So far so good! Great tool for behavior management. :)
It took a while for me to find this because I wrote it wrong. However, I did get here! I spoke mostly to my teachers about scholarly behavior and what it looks like in their classroom and how they introduce it to their students. I have started asking my students higher level questions and I am starting to introduce Scholarly Behavior. It will definately be an eye opener for the students.
I know I'm late posting my comments, but I finally did it! I liked all the ideas and presentation given. I now have a better understanding on how to approach all my students to better help them in becoming critical thinkers. I loved the scholars poster!
As a Band Director, it may be challenging to introduce Scholarly Behavior into a class of students that I see for an hour a day, but it can work.
I constantly have the students use TAKS strategies in the Band class. Mostly, it involves math and reading, but occasionally, it involves science as well.
Just a few weeks ago, I was teaching my third grade Band class about different note lengths (1 count, 2 counts, etc.) and I posted a number line on the board to illustrate my point. The students immediately saw this and responded to it. It made the learning so much easier.
Also, I try to have the kids guide their own learning to an extent. I try new ideas, as long as they won't adversely affect the flow of the class.
Reply to Kimmie
I've been slowly introducing Scholarly Behavior in my class, and the students seem to enjoy some of the higher level discussions. It makes learning that much more fun.
I enjoyed day one of my GT training. One of the things I have implemented thus far is the use of the ICONS. I loved that the training provided the Icons both in spanish and in english as I am a bilingual teacher. I have only posted 4 of the 11 Icons but I will introduce the rest later on as a class activity where we can eleborate on the icons. In the short time that I have used it, I have definitely noticed the higher order of thinking in my whole class, not just my "GT" students. I recommend introducing the Icons and teacher will see a difference. I know have scholarly behavior :).
I enjoyed the training and learned many things that I will implement in my classroom. I have posted the Thinking Icons in my classroom.
I posted the icons in my room and I talked to my students about each one. I also explained how these icons would serve as a reminder to think like scholars. They were all very excited!
I also posted the icons in my classroom to stir questions. As the questions began, I discussed what they meant to my students. We discussed why these were so important to follow. They began using the idea of setting goals in their daily journals. I definitely have seen how they are reminding each other of following the icons. It's amazing how once they know what is expected of them they themselves have began to categorize everything they do as scholarly behavior.
I'm glad to hear that some of you have started using the icons as I think these will be beneficial to all of our students. The icons seem to generate interest among the children and I let them make guesses about their significance, prior to explaining the meaning behind them.
As far as scholarly behavior, I have reiterated the fact that my children have a job, as students in the classroom, and that they need to bring their "learning hats and tools" to work on a daily basis, i.e their tablets, pencils, and an open mind. During a lesson on fact vs. opinion, students were asked to share and compare their opinions about varied topics, which reinforced the fact that people have differing points of view of which scholars should be mindful and respectful.
I am very excited about this training. I teach all ESL children and even though I have no GT kids in my class, I learned last class that there are so many similarities between the two areas. In stead of making things higher level, I usually have to find a way to make them easier to understand by my kids. I have also taught special education and it is also similar but in very different ways. I am ready to learn more about ways to adapt things to my individual children's needs.
I always had the icons on my wall, because my g/t coordinator told me to : )!! I had no idea how to incorporate them into my daily lesson. I really enjoyed the lesson more when the studetns could see how we can use these pictures that have been here for months!!! My students love to guess which icon they are currently using. They have become much more engaged. Oh and I love my books!
Since the training, Ive been thinking about how I should introduce the strategies learned to my classes. I have 3 classes that are grouped by ability levels. So, as for now, all Ive done is posted the icons on the wall.
-Trenae Cullivan-
I have made it more clear to my students that they really do miss out when they do not have their materials. I reiterate that scholars bring what they need every day. There have been fewer pencil boxes left at home.
I began by posting the icons in my room and not saying anything about them. Right away my students realized that something was different becuase I had to take some things down and move them around to get the icons to fit. I let them look at them and think about them for a few days. I asked them questions about what they thought they might be and got some wonderful responses. Now I am going to start introducing them to my class through different activities that they are doing. I look forward to seeing their responses change with higher-level thinking questions.
I also posted an icon in my class and had my students journal about what they thought it represented. And during "think, pair, and share time"; it was fun to hear the imaginative writings of my little scholars.
I like the "Scholars" icons which are simple yet excellent visual reminders for the students. We teach resource pull-out classes for our special ed. students and have been teaching/expecting the "Scholarly Behavior" the entire year. It is nice for them to have the icons as a visual reminder!
B. Smith
E. Sanchez, I like the idea of the students writing down their daily goals in their daily journal. Not only does this allow you to see what their objective for the day is, but they too can monitor their progress. GOOD IDEA!
My students were very excited about the conversation we had regarding scholary behavior. We first had a discussion on what a scholar was, what scholarship meant, and then talked about what it meant to be scholarly. We then talked about a few of the icons and how they need to use them throughout the day no matter which classroom they are in (General Ed Classroom, Resource, Specialists). They are now posted in our resource room as a reminder for all of us.
I am currently a Literacy Coach and no longer have a classroom. But as a coach I shared the ideas with teachers in PLC (Professional Learning Community) and the teachers who haven't been to the G/T training were excited and wanted additional insight on how to implement in class.
I have had the icons up in my room all year and did not know exactly what they were used for. The day I got back after training, I had the kids use the icons to answer some questions about a story we had read. They loved coming up with unanswered questions. The big idea was a huge help getting them ready for the Reading TAKS coming up soon. They need all the practice they can get for main idea. This has been a huge help to further comprehension and deeper thinking of stories.
I love the icons and I use them daily to elicit higher level thinking. The students love it and they are so engaged.
Janetta
Day One was very informative and definitely useful.Day one really helped me get a better understanding of the GT program.
I went to storylineonline.com and my students were so excited about it , they really like it !
OL Toro
I ejoyed our first meeting. One of the first things I did when I returned to my classroom was discuss scholarly behavior with my students. As a whole group we tied some of these ideas to the set of classroom rules that we have had in our room since the beginning of the year. After discussing the characteristics that scholars display, I posted the handout next to our classroom rules as a daily reminder. I really like the poster of scholarly behavior and I think my students do too because they can all relate to it.
Christina posting the scholarly behavior handout next to the classroom rules is a great idea. I just posted them and it makes more sense what you did. Thanks for sharing that!
Janetta
I am using the scholarly icon as a reminder to follow the classroom rules.
I have a poster that was given to me by another teacher that has all the traits of "Scholarly Behavior" on it. I hadn't given it much thought before, but since the last training I've put it up in my room near my class rules. It's really seemed to help some of my students be more accountable for their behavior and work, even sometimes calling out other students who aren't acting "scholarly". I've only introduced a few icons so far so I can introduce each slowly to make sure they're each understood before moving on, but so far they seem to be responding to them really well!
I introduced scholarly behavior to my students by posting the icons. When my students walked in they noticed them right away and started asking questions. I introduced and discuss what scholarly behavior is and what I expect of them.
The first day was very helpful. It made clear how to use the planning strategies and gave me more ideas on how to involve the students. The best part to me was the kindergarten video which showed me how to exploit the work centers according to the children’s interest.
I tried to encourage my students to set the classroom rules and it works. They feel like the rules are their rules and they are trying not to brake them.
I do agree with the ones that say the first day of the GT training has been very useful to start understanding better about GT students.
The first icon I introduced was the patterns icon. What a great tool to get the students focused and engaged! I used it to discuss a few different pieces the students are currently studying. It was an instant conversation starter.
I posted the icons and had a conversation about scholarly behavior, including asking meaningful questions, setting goals and taking intellectual risks. Many of my Vanguard students are afraid to fail and we talked about how perseverance is key, but that initial failure isn't always a bad thing and is how many great scientific discoveries were made.
Day 1 was very interesting I learned different websites and online tools that was very resourceful for students. Storyonline was great the stories were awesome my students loved it!!
I had the opportunity to speak to my class about Scholarly Behavior and model it. I had students to come up in groups and do a Thin-Pair-Share about Scholarly Behavior and present to the class.
I really enjoyed the first day of GT training! All the information presented was very helpful.
I am still working on introducing scholarly behavior to my Kindergarten class. Many of them are excited about it since it gives them a sense or feel of being older,but others need a little more practice.
I have introduced some of the Scholars and Knowledge depth and complexity concepts to my students. We have focused on the concept of Change. I have asked them to bring a picture of themselves when they were babies and I have taken pictures of them this week and have begun relating change to their lives.( i.e. Relating change over time using timelines, etc). This week we are focusing on scholarly behaviors and I have implemented that into part of their conduct charts. I've observed that many of this traits have empowered many of my students so far!
I found the GT Training to be very useful. I am working on introducing the icons to my students.
After posting the icons in the room the students were very eager to know what they were.I introduced scholary behavior to my students in all subject areas. I entered the room dressed in my scientist outfit, holding a magnifying lens as i walked through the room one brave student ask what was I doing? I didn't answer so the student engaged themselves in trying to figure out what I was doing. She's looking for something, it must be something small, why is she wearing a lab coat - this was just a few of the comments the students said.Finally we came to the conclusion that I was exploring.I presented each student with a magnifying len. We focused on exploration first in Reading identifying unfamilar words and using their context clues to find the meaning, then in Math we explored word problems, in Spelling we explored the spelling list looking for smaller words inside of the spelling words. In science we are working on force and motion so we explored what makes objects move. That day was great!
I was excited to take the new ideas back to my classroom and share them with the students. I posted the icons and used then during a few lessons. We held a class discussion on scholarly behavior. We discussed what scholarly behavior looked like and how it made us feel to conduct ourselves in such a way.
I really enjoyed the first day of training. It is nice to have a framework in which to work while meeting the needs of GT students.
This week we have welcomed two new students to our class. We have been discussing how we behave as a class. I have taken the opportunity to use several of the scholarly behaviors to help define the class and set clear expectations for new students. It has been a great experience.
I started the week by introducing some of the icons to my class. It was interesting to see their reactions and associations they made with some of the icons.
We talked about the meanings and how they should be used in the classroom. We ended by applying some of them to a reading about immigrants in the early 1900s and the results were pretty good. They were engaged and interested using their "new stuff"
It is been really interesting to know how I can work with different strategies to cover my students needs and understand them better. I have posted the icons and, they are very curious about their meaning.
I have introduced the cencepts of relationships in my math class to show how there are many ways to solve problems and that the bottom line is the answer. The students enjoy showing their way and then seeing others int he class try there way.
I haven't really done a lesson stating GT yet. However, I read "T-Rex ABC" and let the students choose an alphabet that was a favorite. Then they had to draw what the dinosaur ate. This was an activity where they were able to make a choice on their own.
I posted ICONS and immediately started getting questions as to what they meant. Its great to see them actually notice what is on the walls around them. I used to wonder if they paid attention at all. Awesome!
I introduced Community as my Universal Concept by using a quote of the month. The quote, "Act with kindness. Helping others is the best way to help yourself." I explained interdependence and the importance of helping others. With that, I stressed to importance of bringing tools, asking good questions, and participation.
I currently do not have any GT students in my class. I chose to introduce Scholarly behavior by using the icons "Big Ideas" and "Details" during class to introduce the weekly concept. I also began to call my students "scholars". They had no idea of what I was saying but one of them was curious and asked what is a scholar and that is when I chose to describe a scholar by using the scholarly behaviors. It is posted on my Star of the Week Board as an example of what a scholar can be and/or become.
I intend to introduce my students to the concept of scholarly behavior and I am posting the poster telling scholarly ways. I intend to discuss these habits every day with the students and reward behavior that is scholarly.
I never thought of introducing the Scholarly Behaviors as a daily behavior. I think I will try this.
I am easing into it. I have tried to introduce the "scholarly language" into my class room. I am just trying to get my kids to view themselves as learners and to value the classroom experience. I am also collaborating with my cohort to start a GT group for class and to to get some projects going.
I intend to introduce the icon rule in the class room.
I have five students identified as G/T (3 in Spanish, so unsure how this will carry over into English). One of the tools I've put into action is using Renzuli to create customized projects for these students.
I introduced scholarly behavior and we had a discussion about what it means to be a scholar. Before I could even say that we are all scholars, my kids started saying "Hey! I'm a scholar!" They are taking ownership of this behavior. I also posted the icons on the board. They are a good reminder to go more in depth with every subject.
In my fifth grade classroom we've talked about "serious students" before. For instance in reading, we have a "serious student" position- back straight, bottom back in the chair, hands holding the book/ pointing at the words, feet locked (not kicking around), etc. As I was looking for our serious student behavior this week, I started calling it scholar behavior. Of course that led to discussion and the kids identifying things we already do and words we use as scholarly. We have a running scholarly comparison chart of things that we do that are scholarly and not scholarly. The students came up with the idea (as we recently discussed comparisions in reading) and are excited to identify themselves as scholars. :)
I introduced scholarly behavior in my classroom with examples of scholars. The students that knew they were a scholar expressed that they were in deed a scholar. In addition, they started naming different scholars. The students and I discussed the different science scholars. We stated that we believe our Science Lab Teacher is a scholar and shows that behavior.
I showed my class the thinking icon. We had a whole group discussion about brainstorming, looking for solutions by starting with what you know to get to an answer, using your imagination, and even how these tools will help us become better authors, inventors, and just better on everything we set out to accomplish. We will make graphic organizers with the icons to show understanding of what each means to each child.
in my kindergarten class i used students modeling good participation as an example of what they need to strive for and i explain the benefits they will get- learn more, enjoy stories, more fun at school, etc. i explained how they can participate in the lessons better by constantly listening, watching, speaking. that they need to be willing to take chances and not worry or fear if they do not get the right response- the important thing is for them to keep trying and persevere. i plan to make a copy of the scholary behavior list, enlarge it and make it visible for me as a reminder of what kind of expectations i need to have from them.
Introduction
I began introducing the idea of something fun to come next week on Friday after our G/T meeting. I copied all the signs for depth and complexity on Friday and are waiting for them to get laminated next week. I am really excited because I believe the children in my class will learn so much and recall it for many years. I am thinking about working on the project: Mathematics in Nature found at: http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibpuzzles.html which is through the texaspsp website. :-)
Day one really helped understand the GT program! I really enjoyed my first day.
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Heather
Have a super week!
- Heather Pollack
My kindergarten classroom is based on the "Green Gator" culture. I attended the University of Florida and encourage them to go to college at every opportunity.
Every morning we say a pledge promising to try our very hardest:
"The Green Gator Pledge: We share, we help our friends. We're Gators til' the end. We add, we read, we write. But Gators never fight. Who are we? GATORS! Who are we? GATORS! We are the Green Gators and we are so, so, so smart!"
We refer back to this pledge throughout the day and frequently talk about college, scholarly vocabulary, and we engage in scholarly conversations with each other (always in complete sentences!).
I have a giving tree in the room and above it are big leafs saying: Our Brains Are Big! We constantly work hard so that our brains will grow.
-Jillian Yoerges
NDubreuil - There was a lot to take in but all of the information was great and I am excited about implementing it.
I introduced the scholar behavior to my kinder students by revealing 1 icon (patterns). My students were very excited and eager to share their thoughts about the symbol and what it looked like!
-Belinda Spicer
Kiera Little
"Relationships" has been our big theme in my first grade classroom. It is really fun to see my students use the idea of "Relationships" and apply it to all subject areas. I had one student who applied it to our math lesson by observing that each number in a fact family needs the other numbers to complete the number sentence. They said they rely on each other just like a real family relies on each other to be complete. I thought that was very intuitive :
I'm really excited to begin implementing the activities learned. Best of all they can be done by all the students.
I.Chairez
Jennifer Contreras
The day after our first meet, I brought back the idea of "Exploration." It was amazing to see what my kids did not know, and how they applied it throughout the day. I gave them the task, that their new job was to be explorers in life. Amazingly, so many were thrilled to do something that they were not use too. I am curious to see how our new class moto will turn out in the coming months.
Day one:
I was excited to see how the G/T icons could be used in relationship to reading books.
ELIZABETH ANDERSON
I introduced relationships while discussing jobs in our community such as, the cashier rings up materials that someone else produced and the consumer pays for and eats/uses the purchased items. The students were able to connect relationships to several jobs without any prompting. The students also were able to discuss relationships during every other subject. It was awesome because I did not provide much guidance just told them to,everyday, start looking for relationships in different topics we learn.
Rachel Trentham
Making poster (Scholarly Behavior) and set of icon cards( SCHOLARS...)to introduce to classes over the next week.
I have introduced to my class the concept of "Exploration". The first thing they explored was scholar behavior icons. Scholars shared their personal vision about each of the icons making personal comments about them. Then they put everything together and identified their role as scholars in our campus, at home and in our society. They were very excited about their new role as scholars. It is looking great!
LaShonda Whitmore
After Day 1 went back to my kindergarten class and we talked about cholary behavior. We discussed what it looked like could people who came in our room see that we were scholary. Some kids said yes and other said no. then we discussed what things we could do to make sure everyone new we were the most scholary class at the school. They really had great ideas.
I am thinking of using the scholarly icon in my class...will find time to do it. I am looking forward to day 2...
Mercy
I posted the icons in the classroom and acknowledged the students as they demonstrated them throughout the day.
Our concept theme is Community. I posted people holding hands all around the room. The students noticed and asked what it was about. We talked about how we can help each other in our communities. We talked about our natural resources and how we have to work as a community to keep and preserve our natural resources.
Diarra Hartle
I asked my students what they thought scholarly behavior was and we wrote down all the comments. Then I gave two students a dictionary and told them to look up scholar and look up behavior. As a class we came up with a definition. I showed the icons that depicted what scholars do and we talked about them. Next, we looked at what attributes contribute to scholarly behavior. I gave the students a Frayer model and I had each student choose 3-4 characteristics and give examples of how they display them and things they may do or see that are not scholarly. Each student displayed their model on the digital camera and talked about it in front of the class. I went first and talked about how teachers too have to have scholarly behavior in order to be continue to be effective and meet the students needs. It was really AWESOME and funny when we got to my non-examples. Each student commented about a teacher that they encountered who fell in that category :)!
I began the day Thursday by calling my first graders "Scholars". They were somewhat confused at first as to what a scholar was. I explained to them that a scholar was someone who loved to learn and who thinks deeply and tries hard. They loved being called a "scholar"! They felt proud!
I also focus daily on the concept "relationships". In my class, we are a family. We sing a song each morning stating that they are part of "Miss Standley's family" and that "we're a family." Any time we have an issue arise within the classroom, I focus their attention on the fact that we are a family and our relationship with each other is key; we care for and help one another. It is encouraging to see them engage ane interact with the thought of such a deep relationship with each other.
Rachel Standley
First of all, I would like to express how much I enjoyed the professional development on last week. Because I do not have a classroom, I decided to see how other teachers from different schools were implementing the different things that we discussed in day one. I was actually very excited to see alot of them being implemented. I saw different icons posted in classrooms all over HISD. I spoke with diffent teachers about the concept or theme that they were using for their grade level or class. I am excited to see what Day 2 brings!
Treasure West
Hello Heather and fellow scholars!
I introduced our conceptual theme of "Relationships" last Friday and today. My 1st graders really got it :)
I explained that relationships exist within our families, schools and comminities.
Futhermore, our Environmental Theme this year at Lantrip ES for 1st grade is "Rainforest Concervation" and they linked together that the rainforests survival depends upon us and how we choose to reduce, reuse and recycle... My 1st graders never cease to amaze me!!!
I look forward to our annual exploration of "Relationships"!!!
Mrs. Amy D. Weisenberger
First Grade Magnet Teacher
Looking forward to tomorrow's inservice! I discussed with my class what scholarly behavior is and what it isn't. I gave a few examples of both and had students identify if it was scholarly behavior or not. I also plan to incorporate the icons in the coming week.
L. Vandock
I have created my icons to hang on the wall and introduced the idea of conceptual thinking (and therefore teaching) based on a program we currently have in place through IB. I've started to work on a poster like the one shown at last weeks training.In a post I saw below, I think this week I will also have a discussion about what it means to be a scholar.
Diana Hodgson
I have introduced the icons to my class. Students will at times tie in our questions with an icon. I have yet to introduce "what is a scholar?"
In my first grade classroom I re-introduced communities. We talked about how a community can be in our classroom and also in the area that we live. We discussed how we all need to work together to help each other. We are also working on recycling in our classroom so we talked about how when we clean our playground we are helping keep our community clean so others can play in a clean safe environment!
We also drew pictures of different community helpers and talked about what our community would be like if they weren't there to help us out. We created a big map with their community helpers to show that we all work together. The kids were really engaged and enjoyed learning more about the idea of a community!!
Lyssa Vogler
I introduced "relationships" as our classroom theme.
SaBrina
Between our Number OF THE DAY and B.I.C (breakfast in the classroom) we had a class discussion of (1)what is a scholar? (2)what does a scholar look like? and (3) what behaviors could we adopt to become better scholars? Everyone joined in and I was very impressed with their answers. So in response what I've been trying to do is praise scholarly behavior and provide reminders for those who may not be adhering to our goals.
Jeaniene Barber-Hussie
I INTRODUCED "SYSTEMS" AS OUR CONCEPT.
CONNIE ROSS
My behavior class is using the critical thinking skill rules. I like to think they will soon understand there are rules governing everything in life.
Lisa Nebel
I have introduced the concept of conflict. Bolanos @Benavidez
I introduced the concept of Communities to my third graders last week. I printed each letter in "communities" on a sheet of 8.5"x11" paper and cut each letter in half. Each of my students decorated a piece and then we worked together to build the word. We then discussed the generalization of how communities are made up of different parts and each part relies on another.
Janice Pai
I introduced Scholarlu Behavior inside of my Kindergarten Classroom. I will post the icons at a later date.
Krystal Coleman
This week I've chosen to introduce Renzulli to my students. My campus is really pushing the site and I know that my students will enjoy all the activities that the site has to offer.
Thanks!
-R.Minyard
I used some different products a students can generate as a work. This is amazing!
I made a colored poster of the different components of scholarly behavior to introduce to my students. It was funny because I first asked them what they thought scholar meant. One of my students thought of the word scholarship. We discussed how scholar and scholarship are related. We also came up with different types of resources and wrote them down on the poster. We elaborated a little bit for each square and wrote a short phrase or word to help us remember what each component means to us. This was a very engaging discussion. I plan to refer back to this poster OFTEN!
When I returned to school the next day I stood at my door when my students were coming in and I greeted them by saying "Welcome Scholars" and they immediately started to smile. Some looked at me crazy, very few though, lol. But I could see that it did make a difference. If you believe in them and show it, they know that you are there to back them up to become the best scholars.
On Monday Morning I reminded my students of behavior expectations as well as what is expected of "Scholars", not just GT students but of all the students. We focused on the "Come Prepared", "Take Time To Ponder" (Put on your thinking cap) and Ask Meaningful Questions (SLANT).
My renzuli account is set up, now all I have to do is teach them to log in and get to the assignments. It was not difficult getting it all set up.
C. White
I really enjoyed the class last week and look forward to Day two. This week I decided to introduce all of the concepts to the class as a preview. As the weeks go on, I will pick a concept that will follow along with what I am teaching for the week.
Monique Johnson
I introduced scholarly behavior by discussing the universal concept of Community. We talked about how our classroom is a community and what should be expected of and from each other. I posted the definition of community from a kid’s dictionary, “a group of people having common interests”, on a sentence strip and we have group talk about what the word community means.
J.Bennett
My team teacher attended the G/T Training the last session, so we have already been discussing lots of things from the Scholars and Knowledge curriculum. We have posted the depth and complexity icons in our rooms and are introducing them one at a time to get the students familiar with them. Last week we were focusing on main idea, so we have spent a lot of time talking about Big Ideas related to reading.
Emily English
My class theme is built around being "world-changers". I have been highlighting exactly what change looks like and pointing it out in lessons.
Amelia Hastings
I introduced scholarly behavior and expectations of a learner this week. My students become highly engaged with critical thinking activities, from debating each other on specific topics, brain teasers or open-ended discussions just to name a few. the first class was informative and I look forward to the rest of the sessions.
I enjoyed the first session. I gathered lots of ideas for my gifted students. I look forward in the other sessions. pv
In my classroom I am going to blow up and color the image on p.111 of our book and explain what it's all about and how they can accomplish them and be a scholar.
For the Scholarly behavior word that I posted up was Explore. I had it up and my kiddos seriously were like Que significa? What does that mean? I explained to them that to explore is to think and rethink, to observe and ask questions when they don't understand and to not stop when they've hit a dead end to keep looking in books, ask people, and use the computer when they can to find the answers to their questions.
-Y.Cardoso
I reinforced scholarly behavior in my class room and presented it in a way that reassured every student that they are capable of being a true scholoar who exemplifies greatness. The students loved the sound of being a scholart and you could see their faces light up when they were given that title. I also used the flip book strategy to get a hands on product of something we worked on this week (plural endings e, es, and ies). The kids loved it!
Tiffany Ogburn, 2nd Grade
I have decided to set up my renzulli for my students so that they are able to use it. Also, so that I can assign projects to my GT students. I can not wait for day two to learn new things :)
R. Macias
Enjoyed all the great ideas and strategies shared. I plan on coordinating several this week.
The first day of training was very thought provoking. I enjoyed learning about the use of icons the strenghen and deepen questions. The students have responded well, and has shown eagerness to continue in the Scholars and Knowledge framwork of learning. The icons are up in the room, and I am preparing materials to continue. We also plan to collaborate with the other GT teachers on campus to align our teaching throughout the grade levels.
I introduced the concept of "community", my class had some interesting ideas. It is great to see their minds work on a whole diffent level. We are currently learning how to make and read graphs, and we made several diffent bar graphs that included jobs from our community.
Something that I've incorporated in my classroom that my students have started to excel in are differentiated products. I would also say that this is the strand that I'm best at. I use differentiated extension menus in which my students have a choice in deciding what their final product will be as long as they follow a structured grading criteria.
This also allows me to make projects more rigorous for GT students and incorporate GT concepts.
-Luis Nobriga
I have yet to post the icons in my room, but I have infused my lessons with scholarly behavior by guiding students to make connections between the work we do in class and the skills they need for success in life. I have also challenged my students to take greater responsibility for their own learning through self-assessment and peer-monitoring. So far it is going very well. The students seem energized by the increased responsibility and relevance; and I'm energized by their learning!
I had the icons posted, but I only briefly referred to them. Since Saturday, I have used them during my class. I have even taken to drawing the particular concept (i.e. drawing it on the idea web, or T-chart). Now they have begun referring to it in their learning.
I enjoyed learning about the various icons and about scholarly behavior, and I plan to implement the lesson ideas into my classroom. Scholarly behavior is going the extra mile in learning. It is about asking meaningful questions, setting goals, persevering, and taking intellectual risks. The teacher should provide students with access to resources such as encyclopedias, internet, and allowing students to discuss research topics with the librarian so that students may quench their thirst for knowledge, their eager curiosity, and their desire to exercise their intellect.
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Heather Pollack
I got back to class and began referring to my students as GT students. They immediately began to change their behaviors very positively thinking this was the way GT students behaved. They did the same thing the very next day.
Holland Randle
I begin incorporating the Scholars of Knowledge to my Kinder Class by greeting my students in the morning, “Good Morning Scholarly students."
Lisa Tarver
Saturday Class (Hardy Street)
I greet my students as scholars in
the morning. At first they looked at me kind of confused and asked what I meant. I explained; they smiled and felt important. They have been consideraby more serious during lessons. I also use the term during the day instead of boys and girls, or students.
Martha Gonzalez - Sat. Class.
I used the technique of greeting my students at the door as "Hello Scholar." My students were confused about why I was calling them scholars. I explained to my children that they have the same capabilites as any other students. If you had my class you would understand why I say this. At my school GT students are segregated in one class. This year I have the student that are a little lower and the special ed children. I know for a fact that children do know between being "regular" and GT, especially the special education students. I used the activity we did about using pictures to tell the story of a book. My kids really enjoyed this activity. I explained to them how this was a type of activity teachers use on GT students. My children's self esteem shot through the roof. I could see it in their eyes. I noticed a difference in their interaction with me during instruction time.
-Rita Flores
My thoughts from the the first day was confusing yet clear. I learned many new things that I didn't know and hope to learn a lot more during the next three sessions. I enjoyed the storyonline story, this is a tool that I use to B.A.T.H. (bathing) my children first thing during breakfast in the classroom and they really enjoy it. The bathing activity is somthing my principal requires thoughtout our school. I dont remember what the it stands for but, ultimately she believes that if you read to children often they will soon grow a love or intrest for reading.
Tina Tillmon
I introduced scholarly behavior by starting a discussion about why rules and expectations are important. Alot of my students love soccer so I asked them why they think that people don't wear dinner outfits to play soccer. Then I told them that just like soccer and other games, certain expectations apply to schooling. We discussed the various scholarly behaviors and how they relate to our learning. At the end, each student wrote a paragraph about which scholarly behavior they were already practicing and which they needed to work on. It was a very interesting and animated discussion.
Betty Ukera
Day one is was great!!! It is good to know all the legal and standards about GT students. I'll use the icons and I already have choosen my concept for this year "relationships".
I really enjoyed!!
Giuliana Morinelli
Although I do not have a GT class, I am still being trained as if I do. I think I have one GT student only because the 4 or 5 other must have moved over the summer. Anyway, I am enjoying use what I am learning. After the first class, I wrote "Hello Mathematicians." It was great to explain to my spanish speaking students what it was. It was also great to build their self esteem up. Some double checked and wanted to know if that included them, and I said, absolutely!! C. Harris
I enjoyed my first day of training. I liked the interaction!
vtorres
Last year I was given these scholarly icons to be posted on the wall in my classroom, but I didn't understand what I was supposed to do with them. Now I'm using these scholarly icons with my lessons to help students become better thinkers.
T.Le
I always greet my students good morning at the door before they enter the classroom. Now I have been greeting them good morning scholars everyday. The first day they had so many questions and we had a pretty good discussion about what it means to be a scholar. they were all excited to be called a scholar. Since then I have introduced the icons a little at a time. This also causes much discussion.
Vanessa Esquivel
Introducing students to scholarly behaviors really motivated them more than what I expected. It seems that they feel they have some type of advantage from the rest of their peers. A. Rincon
As I called my students scholars and defined what it meant to them, they seem to be more aware and put more effort in their learning. Which is exactly what it means. (a learned person) this is one definition. I liked this one, scholar: somenone(especially a child)who learns (as from a teacher)or takes up knowledge. Students seem to be more attentive to what you say, when you tell them that they are learners. Pretty cool.
Jose G. De Los Reyes
Make the kids feel scholarly. When my kids come in I now call them all my Math Scholars.
Donovan Decuir
Each morning, I post a picture that the students must write about. There is no prompt so the kids are allowed to use their imagination and come up with original ideas to respond to the picture. They use details to describe what they see. We also discuss patterns when we talk about rhyming words or in our spelling units. I always ask them if they can spot a pattern. It helps them in spelling when they know there are patterns to look out for.
Andrea de Vera
I introduced some icons to my students as a guide to some of the concepts that are being taught. I started with math patterns since the students are familiar with them. Then I introduced patterns in other content areas.
Graciela Porter
In my classroom my students love to be read to and to read. At this point it is very easy to introduce the icons because almost all of them can be found in books. We discussed different points of views, sequencing, details, and also unanswered questions. The more questions the students were asked the more engaged they were.
Rosalinda
After the two days of training, I have learned how to implement GT strategies in the classroom. I know that combning my experience with new GT strategies I will be a better teacher.
I have learned so much. I know that my students will learn new strategies to solve problems in their lives.
Hi, since the first week I placed the icons in my class and next week I will start will details. I want my students to tell me about the details that they find in the social studies lessons. This week we talked about The American Revolution and students were asked to give a detailed description of the various battles.
Cesar Miranda
Great article!
After day one I went immediately the next week and started using the word scholar in my classroom. I had so many different looks from the kids as I greeted them with, "Good morning Scholar!" Sure they did not know what it meant and I had not completely thought out how I was going to introduce the term, I just went for it. It led to a discussion and posting of the scholars attributes poster. One thing I noticed after a few days of me calling them scholars is that some of the students are trying to be scholarly. I hope to continue and maybe a culture of scholarliness(if thats a word) will take root.
D. Dávila
I am a Kindergarten teacher and I have used the Thinking Icons in my classroom. It has been a great tool that I introduced to my students. I especially enjoy sharing the online stories with my students. They were truly engaged.
-C. Bonner
I printed the icons on a bright green paper and am putting them up a couple at a time. I started with details and big ideas, only because I was covering these concepts in our reading. But the kids were more excited that they get to point out the big idea of everything. Just because the icons are posted, the kids feel like they have license to refer to them often. This is great for discussions. I never would have thought that just posting an icon and explaining what it meant would lead to more discussion and interaction. It is like making our classroom more interactive.
D. Dávila
I greeted the students as scholars.!WOW did they fell important!.
But most of them did not understand the word.
My students liked storylines .com
Vladimir Rodriguez Satuday class
I found the GT Training to be very useful. I am working on introducing the icons to my students.
October 12, 2010 4:31 PM
I introduced scholarly behaviors by greeting my first greeting my first graders at the door saying "Good morning scholars". They were puzzled and intrigued. When they were settled in I asked them what they think a scholar could be. The answers were quite funny. Then I explained what a scholar was. I then guided an open discussion about some behaviors they think a scholar might show.
Now, I call them scholars throughout the day and when someone is showing scholarly behavior I point it out to the class. They are working hard to be scholars. (
Keri Salinas
I introduced scholarly behavior into the computer lab by posting copies of the various icons we learned during our training. Each class that entered was very curious and full of questions. I told them we would talk about one of the icons each week. I called them all "scholars" and they we all thrilled and smiling.
I introduced scholarly behavior into the computer lab by posting copies of the various icons we learned during our training. Each class that entered was very curious and full of questions. I told them we would talk about one of the icons each week. I called them all "scholars" and they we all thrilled and smiling.
Carolyn Arias
I introduced scholarly behavior to my students. We discussed what it was and how we were going to keep working to continue being scholars. We began by coming prepared everyday and participating in a daily basis. They were pretty excited by starting a new project and are looking forward to it.
Teran
I told my kindergarten class that I was going to a class so I could be a better teacher for them. Then I intoduced "Scholars" and Scholarly behavior. We discussed each behavior, and to help them understand perspectives we talked about a book we had recently read. We discussed how we looked at the story problem from the little duck's perspective, from his sibling's perspective and from the mother duck's perspective. They reiterated to me these points of view. They were excited about the "glasses"--have to work on the terms--but it was a great start!
Jo Ann Woods
January 31, 2011
I presented the Scholarly Behaviors to my 4th grade special education students (LD). I discussed each one, then had them draw anonymously to act out for the others to guess. One student was rubbing his chin as to memorize information to save and one reached for his folder as other resources. One bent over like the picture who really didn't have the idea of half full...
They wanted to do more but I said another day. Laura Robinson
I am a Kindergarten teacher and currently I do not have any GT students. However, I do have a few potential students. I introduced "scholarly behavior" by welcoming my students into my reading circle as "Brillant Thinkers" I introduced and discussed each icon. Then, we chose two. We read a story and used the two icons to describe events that happened in the story. I loved "The Big Idea" responses from my students. This is such a resourceful tool to help guide students to use their little minds and activate good thinking skills. Awesome!!!!!!
Nicole Miller-Smith
This week I tried with my students to Consider Themselves Halfull. I have a kinder class, and they are learning to draw objects in some of the lessons. They always said that their pictures were not good enough. This week, I kept reinforcing that their pictures were beautiful because they did their best. It is very important to be positive as long as they tried their best.
Dane Torres
I introduced the scholarly behavior of bring tools to the classroom. In order to be a good scholar, they need to come prepared each day. This has been an area of difficulties for them. The next day one of my students brought pencils for everyone. They are starting to realize that to be sucessful as a scholar the first step is to have their tools.
Ana Acosta
In my Kindergarten class, I have been encouraging my students to take time to ponder. Whether it is questioning them after a read aloud or during a math lesson, I remind them to take time to think instead of blurting out answers. This has helped them better express themselves when answering questions.
Minerva Salazar
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