Students are able to relate applicable content to their personal goals, prior learning, and other content areas and connect new information with relevant personal, cultural, or community experiences. To do this, teachers acknowledge and value students’ lived experiences and linguistic repertoires and support students to draw upon these experiences and skills to make sense of new ideas, perspectives, and content. (Adapted from New Teacher Center's Indicator Rubric)
RANDA Connections: IA, IB, IIIA
What the Research Says...
What the Research Says...
Connecting Content to Students' Lives to Boost Engagement: This article emphasizes the impact and importance of students seeing themselves in the content.
Brain-Based Research and the Need for Hands-On Learning: The case for how connecting to lesson content is supported by brain-based research and helps students make meaning.
Coaching to Connect to Lesson Content...
Coaching to Connect to Lesson Content...
In order to develop a teacher's capacity to support students to Connect to Lesson Content the coach will use the continuum above, as well as available data sources, to facilitate reflection and identify next steps. One approach may be to turn the continuum bullet points into questions.
The following resources align with the continuum:
Supporting Students in Relating Content Their Personal Goals, Prior Learning, and Other Content Areas
Identity Charts (Facing History and Ourselves)
Graffiti Boards (Facing History and Ourselves)
Thinking Routines: Introducing and Exploring Ideas (Project Zero)
Thinking Routines: Digging Deeper Into Ideas (Project Zero)
Related Teacher Practices, Student Actions, and Classroom Interactions...
Related Teacher Practices, Student Actions, and Classroom Interactions...
Connection to District-Wide Professional Learning
Connection to District-Wide Professional Learning
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