9 results for ‘extended looking’
Extended Looking: Using Images to Build Theme Statements
I worked with Kristina Claytor and Allie Sberna this week using a strategy learned/modified from the Pages program at the Wexner Center. This learning activity is one I have utilized many times, and it was a pleasure to work with two patient, flexible and talented teachers trying it out with a new group of students …
Q and A from St. Francis DeSales Mindful Creativity Workshop
I hosted a Mindful Creativity Workshop for St. Francis DeSales High School staff a few weeks ago. Here are some photos and a responses to questions teachers asked in the workshop. How do we make those spaces in our brain happen more often? Brains are never going to be completely silent. Their jobs are to think, so …
Q and A from Teachers on Mindful Creativity
Last week I worked with some amazingly creative and engaged teachers from a variety of backgrounds facilitating a workshop on mindful creativity. The Q and A below is a result of questions from participants left on exit tickets, followed by my responses. Why “mindfulness”? Any special reason for picking that word? This is a …
Transformation Through Art: Mindful Creativity Connections
This week I worked with students in the Mosaic program with Kim Leddy and Steve Shapiro. We wanted to provide students with an introduction to mindfulness and mindful creativity while also introducing the themes of transformation, identity and change. Before I came into the classroom, Kim and Steve had used a variation on this mindfulness …
Mindfulness and Creativity: Q and A with Pages Teachers
In my role as Educator-in-Residence in the wonderful and amazing Pages program with the inspirational Dionne Custer-Edwards I have been teaching Mindful Creativity. We began on day one with an introduction to mindfulness, and I received some good questions from teachers about personal mindful practice, implementing mindfulness for students in the classroom, and how to talk to …
Using Formative Assessment: Learning Target Tracking Sheets and Exit Tickets
The following are an accumulation of resources to track students learning and understanding in different ways. These resources were gathered for a PD on formative assessment at PHSC. Exit Ticket-Two Questions, One Concern and One Insight Exit Ticket- “I Used to Think and Now I Think“ Example “Extended Looking” Lesson: Learning Target Tracking and …
Building to a Literary Analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird
I watched Tim Starkey teach this Extended Looking lesson with his freshmen, leading to writing a literary analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird. We had taught the lesson, which uses art by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison to explore the process of gathering evidence to create meaning, a few weeks previous in his AP classes. Starkey …
Lesson on the “Unknown”: Visual to Text Literacy
Susan Turley wanted to do an extended looking lesson for her AP classes focusing on the theme of the “unknown.” To this end, we used the Extended Looking Learning Targets and Reflection and paired them with this image: After we went through the extended looking process, we immediately transferred the skills to text the next day …
Visual to Text Literacy: Using Engaging Images for Metacognitive Gains
For a moment, ponder and name the thinking skills involved in comprehension of material. Regardless of the content, you might have come up with ideas like: gathering observations, making connections, and asking meaningful questions among other things. These are all strategies teachers use for reading comprehension, and although students might be exposed to these types …
