Kendall Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I listened to a talk by Laura Berquist in which she said that every assignment in 6th grade (and up) should have an analytical component. She said summarizing was an analytical component. What are some other assignment ideas? I think these would qualify, what others do you think would be good? comparing contrasting outlining Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebacabunch Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Can you be more specific? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I would recommend spending some time reading links that discuss Bloom's Taxonomy and Socratic questions. Here are a few links to get you started: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html http://wwild.coe.uga.edu/pptgames/resources/bloom_questions.pdf http://www.curriculumproject.com/cgi-bin/tcp_verify.cgi?agency=Indiana+Department+of+Education&href=www.doe.in.gov/&logo=indi.gif&titletext=&uw=true&sw=false&app=uw (with this link, click on a title and then click on the view matrix link and you'll be able to read lots of suggested assignments.) http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/the-role-of-socratic-questioning-in-thinking-teaching-learning/522 http://www.engin.umich.edu/~cre/probsolv/strategy/cthinking.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendall Posted March 25, 2013 Author Share Posted March 25, 2013 Thank you, 8FillTheHeart (8 fill mine too:))! That is what I needed. I tried searching for analytical questions and didn't get anywhere. Am I right in thinking that comprehension questions would not be considered analytical? I mean the kinds of comprehension questions for which you can find the answers right in the text? I'll start reading those links. thebacabunch - In the lecture she said that reading a passage and summarizing it is an analytical assignment. They have to analyze what is most important and include it. Is that what you mean by be more specific? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebacabunch Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 No, lol. I just needed to read your post again. Can I claim a senior moment at 39? I think that analytical is narrating then outlining and moving on to analyizing. Like teaching young kids to narrate back what you just read to them to learn to find the key points of a story or passage. Outlining comes next by teaching kids to analyze a passage and to condense it to its most important points. Last would be to learn to take those points and address them by taking each key point and analyzing them. The WWE curriculum teaches the narration part beautifully and at an appropriate progression through a kids developmental readiness. WWS teaches the kids to outline and condense different kinds of writing and then to analyze them point by point. This kind of teaching, as compared to traditional "summarize" teaching teaches students to find the most important parts of a question or reading and to know what to write about (pros and cons, etc.) while a kid taught to summarize may learn to do no more than spit back what they have just read without interpreting it in any way. DOn't know if this makes any sense..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarynB Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 No, lol. I just needed to read your post again. Can I claim a senior moment at 39? I think that analytical is narrating then outlining and moving on to analyizing. Like teaching young kids to narrate back what you just read to them to learn to find the key points of a story or passage. Outlining comes next by teaching kids to analyze a passage and to condense it to its most important points. Last would be to learn to take those points and address them by taking each key point and analyzing them. The WWE curriculum teaches the narration part beautifully and at an appropriate progression through a kids developmental readiness. WWS teaches the kids to outline and condense different kinds of writing and then to analyze them point by point. This kind of teaching, as compared to traditional "summarize" teaching teaches students to find the most important parts of a question or reading and to know what to write about (pros and cons, etc.) while a kid taught to summarize may learn to do no more than spit back what they have just read without interpreting it in any way. DOn't know if this makes any sense..... I'm not the OP, but I really enjoyed the way you explained this! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I was enjoying the links that 8FillTheHeart shared and found this one. I liked it because of the ideas listed on the last page. http://www.in2edu.com/resources/thinking_resources/blooms_taxonomy_chart.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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