Welcome to the Next Gen!

Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
On 18 September, 2013
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**This content was taken with permission from Literacy Solutions PD, Inc., Course No. 197: Next Gen Science and the ELA Common Core – www.literacysolutions.net Welcome to Next Gen, a composite of strategies culled from, and for, the Next Gen Science Standards, geared to helping educators help students make important academic leaps in science curriculum. The […]

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Process Versus Product: Getting Inside Their Heads

Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
On 3 August, 2013
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By Susan Ruckdeschel, MS Ed., Executive Director, Literacy Solutions PD, Inc., and Dr. Barbara Fedock, Instructor and Instructional Designer for Literacy Solutions PD, Inc. A K through 12 grade math classroom that supports literacy development is one where students and teachers can demonstrate understanding of the learning and thinking process. This is achieved through metacognition, […]

Media Literacy and Close Reading

Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
On 13 July, 2013
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Media Literacy and Close Reading: A Common Medium for the Common Core Media literacy is a combination of new learning theory and highly engaging methods of practical, hands-on application that use 21st century technologies to aid students in culling and using evidence to supports their ideas (Schiebe, 2004). Links to media literacy and student research […]

The Promise of New Literacy

Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
On 13 April, 2013
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Some hard facts about literacy: click here for audio 37% of students in grade 4, and 26% of students in grade 8 can’t read at a basic level. The greatest achievement gaps are among minority groups, with 75% of white students reading at or above basic, compared to 44% of Hispanic and 40% of African […]

Building Student Grit: Is Hard Work and Effort More Important Than IQ?

Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
On 1 April, 2013
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“Every child needs to encounter frustration and failure to learn to step back, reassess, and try again” (Hoerr, 2012). Could it be that students with access to more resources, from higher socio-economics might just be shielded from success as their parents unwittingly hold them back from those inevitable challenges that other students face? And if […]

The Role of Questioning in a World of Common Core

Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
On 23 March, 2013
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Question-Asking: Intentional and Powerful When teachers carefully select and craft their questions, students respond with thinking, wondering, reflection and overall cognition – in other words, they really learn. How do we further this important trajectory? We ask thought-provoking questions. Even the syntax we use to structure a question with, influences how students will respond – […]

Why Critical Literacy? Because Literacy Is Critical!

Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
On 18 March, 2013
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Why Critical Literacy? Because Literacy Is Critical! When students work collaboratively as peers to form and refine ideas, they’re applying critical literacy. Whether it’s via social media, in-person, or through writing, they’re operating several levels above the mainstream of think, look, and answer. When they construct meaningful questions, analyze and question content, apply real-world scenarios […]

Out With The Old and In With The New

Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
On 14 March, 2013
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Out With The Old And In With The New! Susan Ruckdeschel, MS Ed. In Who Moved My Cheese? by authors Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard, characters Hem and Haw each deal with change differently. One of course is successful, the other not as successful. Aside from a life-changing circumstance they each faced, they had one […]

Getting from Point A to Point B in Student Peer Review

Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
On 29 December, 2008
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Getting from Point A to Point B in Student Peer Review Student peer coaching is a three-step review process students use to edit and work drafts through a writing process in group or in buddy sessions.In some instances, it can be used as a whole class model for introducing some of the concepts.It is a […]

Student Peer Coaching

Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
On 29 December, 2008
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Editing and Writing, Education, Education and Assessments, Student Peer Review, Teaching and Learning

Student Peer Coaching - a method that teaches students how to review their work independently, and has proven effectiveness on assessment performance when writing-on-demand.

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