🤔 What are routines, frames, and protocols? How can they support what we are learning?
How can students use the strategy across disciplines? How does the strategy engage students as active participants in their learning? How can students use the strategy independently of the teacher? Is the strategy flexible enough to be used in all learning environments?
~Angela Di Michele Lalor, author of Edutopia post "Selecting Instructional Strategies that Students can Master"
🧐 Let's see frames, routines, and protocols in action and get some ideas!
Substitution: Using a routine where students draw images and write about what they've learned, teacher has students draw digital images (using the pen tool) of their favorite part of a science unit and type a quick summary about their drawing.
Augmentation: Using a routine where students observe things from multiple viewpoints, teacher has students work in a collaborative document with their peers to share their perspectives from these various viewpoints.
Modification: Using a routine with mind mapping, students build digital mind maps of what they learned in a particular unit. Including links to any projects or artifacts they've created along the way. Students utilize the connection tools to drag connections between various areas on their maps.
Redefinition: Using a routine where students record their thinking and then go on a gallery walk, students document their thinking within a digital tool (including audio or video to further share their ideas). Peers travel travel physically or digitally to other peer creations. They leave digital or sticky note praise and suggestions for improvement on peers devices.
🤓 Let's Give it a Try!
Now it's your turn to create. Choose 1 of the tools below and learn how to use it. Create your own artifact with this tool. It should be something you would use with students or with coworkers. You'll add either your completed artifact or a link to this artifact to the Google Classroom Assignment below.
Dig into More EduProtocols
Want to just borrow the EduProtocol Field Guide Book 1 or Book 2 and read more yourself? Check your local library for copies of these books.
Want to just borrow Making Thinking Visible and read more yourself? Check your local library for a copy of this book.
🤩 Let's Design for Students
If you choose to write a lesson plan, be sure to include:
Standards: What standards are you addressing?
Introduction: How will you hook students in?
Instruction: What are you teaching?
Activity: What will students be doing or creating?
Conclusion: How will you wrap things up?
If you choose to build the lesson materials, be sure to include:
Standards: What standards are you addressing?
Teacher Materials: What will you be showing/teaching the students?
Student Materials: What directions, models, rubrics will students need?
Follow the "I do, we do, you do" process.
Model, model, model and have these models available when students are working.
Provide additional prompts or reminders about various parts of teh task either in writing or audio.
Record a video of you modeling the task so that learners can review it at any point when they need support.
Create visuals for students to reference for completing the routine.
Have students work with a peer or in small groups at first (if appropriate).