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Nicole Bobrowski
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Date:

October 9, 2013

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This model drives students to use organized bodies of knowledge and to create relationships between facts, concepts, and generalizations.
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Planning

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Assessment

Motivation

-Identify Topics: the topic

needs to be an organized body of knowledge -Specify Learning Goals: clarify what the student needs to learn about the topic while using content goals. Content goals: creating relationships and observing for patterns -Prepare Data: information is prepared by gathering data and analyzing it to gain a deeper understanding to meet specific goals -Specify Questions: clarify the questions that are going to be asked during the lesson in advance

-Open Ended Phase: record information gathered by comparing data and research and observations of patterns -Casual Phase: students present the relationships they discovered in the previous phase -Hypothetical phase: students are asked questions to create a deeper understanding think about applying it to new situations -Closure and Application: students form broad relationships and apply the understandings to situations

-Assessment of understanding how to use organized bodies of knowledge -Test students on the content taught to see if they grasped a deeper understanding -Students can be asked to write short answers on test to show their knowledge rather than multiple choice testing

-The challenge itself of using critical thinking skills to grasp a deeper understanding of the content can motivate the students to learn and get the right answer due to the curiosity of the unknown -Cooperation of the students can motivate them to retrieve the right answer when observing data that has been collected

So what? What is important to understand about this?

This model is a good tool to use when learning how to create relationships among concepts as well as using organized bodies of knowledge.