JMM
Gradual Release of Responsibility
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The Four Components of GRR
The Four Components of GRR
I. Focus Lesson
I. Focus Lesson
- Reflect on and Adjust Daily Learning Targets that work for your discipline
- Instructional Purpose Ideas connected to JMM Power Standards
- Knowing Your Learning Target
- Language Learning Target for All
- Learning Targets: Skill / Concept, Emotional Learning and Language
- Making Content Comprehensible for English Learner (The SIOP model)
- 1: Lesson Preparation
- 2: Building Background
- Writing and using Content and Language Learning Objectives
- Writing Instructional Goals and Objectives
II. Guided Instruction
II. Guided Instruction
Checks for Understanding
- 10 Fun-Filled Formative Assessment Ideas
- 25 Quick Formative Assessments for a Differentiated Classroom
- 53 Ways to Check for Understanding
- 60 Tools for Formative Assessments
- Checking for Understanding: Key Assessment for Learning Techniques
- Formative EdTech Assessment Tools
- Leading Change in Assessment Practices: Scenarios on the Use of Formative Classroom Assessment (multiple resources!)
- Links Between Formative Assessment and Intrinsic Motivation
- Quick Checks for Understanding
- Recognizing the Formative Assessment Process
Questioning Techniques
- 5 Ways to Strengthen Student Questioning
- Asking Good Questions
- Essential Questions -- by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins
- Higher Order Thinking Skills Question Stems
- How to Make Your Questions Essential -- Grant Wiggins
- Learning to Ask Questions: Curiosity spawns questions -- S. Harve and A. Goudvis
- Making Content Comprehensible for English Learner (The SIOP model)
- 3: Comprehensible Input
- Question Stems
- Reflective Listening Questions and Stems
- Strategies for Developing Effective Questioning Skills -- Question Starters
- Teacher Discourse Moves -- Tool Card
Leading Change in Assessment Practices: Scenarios on the Use of Formative Classroom Assessment (multiple resources!) by Cassandra Erkens, Solution Tree
III. Collaborative Learning
III. Collaborative Learning
Accountable Talk: Resources to Support Language in Group/Collaborative Settings
Accountable Talk: Resources to Support Language in Group/Collaborative Settings
- Accountable Talk (one page handout)
- Accountable Talk Frames to Support Language Functions (Packet adapted from the work of Kate Kinsella)
- Accountable Talk Toolkit (K-12 Alliance/WestEd 6.07)
- Accountable Talk Resources
- Collaborative Learning: What it it? Ways to think about what make a lesson collaborative
- Engagement Strategies - Resource created by Lindsay Lodholz, External PBS Coach (compilation of numerous techniques and where they come from)
- Joining the Conversation: Questions and Comments to Help You Participate in Academic Discussions
- Making Content Comprehensible for English Learner (The SIOP model)
- 3: Comprehensible Input
- 5: Interaction
- Stem starters: Constructive Conversation Skills Poster
- Speaking Respectfully (Video)
- Turn and Talk
IV. Independent Practice
IV. Independent Practice
- Classroom Strategies: Exit Slips -- Fisher and Frey
Instructional Practice Tool (page 3-7)
Instructional Practice Tool (page 3-7)
MMSD created document on Gradual Release of Responsibility w/ District Links
- This tool is used in all school walkthroughs / classroom visits K-12 in MMSD.
- The document is organized around the instructional framework of Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR).
- The electronic version of the tool offers links to resources embedded directly in the tool itself.
- The resources are connected to the Teacher Team Toolkit created for teachers by the district.
- This document can be a helpful tool in lesson planning and GRR awareness.
Assessment: Checking for Understanding
Assessment: Checking for Understanding
- 10 Fun-Filled Formative Assessment Ideas
- 25 Quick Formative Assessments for a Differentiated Classroom
- 53 Ways to Check for Understanding
- 60 Tools for Formative Assessments
- Formative EdTech Assessment Tools
- Leading Change in Assessment Practices: Scenarios on the Use of Formative Classroom Assessment (multiple resources!)
- Making Content Comprehensible for English Learner (The SIOP model)
- 8: Review and Assessment
- Quick Checks for Understanding
Engagement
Engagement
- Relationships and Collaboration
- Sense of Belonging
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
Lesson Planning: Tools and Strategies
Lesson Planning: Tools and Strategies
- Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Strategies in Action
- Engaging the Adolescent Learner: First 20 Days... by Fisher and Frye
- Instructional Practice Tool (Gradual Release of Responsibility w/ District Links pgs. 3-7)
- KUDOS: Know, Understand and Do
- Many of these resources are based on Universal Design for Learning, or Backwards Design in which you design with the end in mind intentionally to address the needs of a range of learners.
- Making Content Comprehensible for English Learner (The SIOP model)
- 1: Lesson Preparation
- 3: Comprehensible Input
- 6: Practice and Application
- Templates
- Website for Lesson Planning Templates
Articles:
Articles:
- "From Snowboard to Whiteboard: State of the State: Scaffolding Success using Gradual Release of Responsibility " (very good quick article on Gradual Release by Tamara Maxwell, MMSD Literacy Coordinator)
Videos: Gradual Release of Responsibility
Videos: Gradual Release of Responsibility
- Close Read: Chief Joseph’s Speech Doug Fisher
- Collaborative Group Work with the 1-3-6 Protocol --video link. 1-3-6 Protocol'
- Conver-Stations: A Discussion Strategy --Student interaction and check for understanding strategy
- Douglas Fisher on Gradual Release of Responsibility
- Formative Assessment Using the UPS Strategy
- Improving Teacher Practice with Sarah Browne Wessling -- Teaching Channel Video
- Promoting Student Ownership and Engagement in Math--Checks for Understanding --11th grade math
- Speaking Respectfully Learning Channel
- Strategies for Monitoring Progress: Checks for Understanding --9th grade enviro science
- Students Explain the Power of Learning Targets --students --middle school-- connect learning to learning targets and checks for understanding
- Supporting Language and Content for ELLs in Math Instruction
- Symbolism in “The Lottery” --Lesson with well-integrated checks for understanding / student interaction & collaboration
