Bill, I hope this is not a completely idiotic question but what is AVID...maybe it's too early Sunday morning and my mind is not working clearly after a night of celebrating w/ friends. Alice
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heather Poland Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 9:53 PM To: A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades. Subject: Re: [LIT] Adolescent Literacy Discussion Bill, Yes, I've taught my students Blooms Taxonomy last year when introducing the research paper, and they had to come up with a research question. I made a chart and put examples of questions on the chart. I also had them practice coming up with different levels of questions. I thought it went really well. This year, when I was in the classroom, I taught AVID and they use the 3 levels of questioning by someone I'm forgetting right now. This was a little easier to understand. They did an activity where they got questions and had to categorize which level they went in. I think questions can get better as the year goes on, without directly teaching the taxonomy. but for my purposes I had to teach it because I needed higher level questions for their research right then. So I guess it depends on your purpose. On 1/27/07, Bill IVEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > " > Does anyone actually teach their students Bloom's taxonomy as an aid to > asking effective questions which would lead to analysis, synthesis, > organization and evaluation? I tried it once, but found it really hard to > get across. On the other hand, when I went to more of a democratic focus > in creating units, the questions just naturally seemed to get sharper as > the year progressed. I was thinking the rewards involved in answering more > sophisticated questions are so much greater that that fact in itself helps > stimulate students to ask better questions. Possible? > > Take care, > Bill Ivey > Stoneleigh-Burnham School > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > -- - Heather "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." --Clarence Day "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little good evidence exists that there's any educational substance behind the accountability and testing movement." -Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase funding. " -Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
