janetfischer

Janet

Please answer these questions on your own page

1. What ideas do you have for using Visual Ranking?

Rank a list of things in our school according to beauty( inside or outside) Rules for our classroom that will make it run better. In Horton Hears A Who rank the characters according to their beauty starting with the most beautiful. Defend your answers.

2. How will the use of Visual Ranking fit into your Unit Plan and help your students meet the learning objectives and target higher-order thinking skills? If you have already decided that Visual Ranking will not be a good fit for your unit, what ideas do you have for using Visual Ranking with your students in other units? Hopefully the use of this tool will broaden the students idea of beauty. When they rank the characters according to their beauty they will have to differenciate inner beauty from outer beauty. This may change their perspective of the word beauty.

3. What concerns do you have in using this tool or incorporating ranking?

Will the students take it seriously and really go deeper.

4. What feedback would you like from others? Anything

Also, besides reflecting on these questions, include:


 * An overview of how the Visual Ranking Tool would be integrated into your unit?


 * Concerns, questions, and desired feedback.


 * __Seeing Reason__**

1. What ideas do you have for using Seeing Reason? To see the affect of the characters actions on the people of Whoville. To analyze what things are most important to the students of Bush school to increase the feeling of community and family within our school. What things make our school a beautiful place to be.

2. How will the use of Seeing Reason fit into your Unit Plan and help your students meet the learning objectives and target higher-order thinking skills?

The students will use their understanding of cause and effect and character trait/action to better understand the book __Horton Hears a Who.

I__ want the students to analyze examples of things done at their school to build trust and community to enhance the beauty of their school. Think about the things done and the effect of those things.

3. If you have already decided that Seeing Reason will not be a good fit for your unit, what ideas do you have for using Seeing Reason with your students in other units?

4. Does your unit involve a complex system or issue that warrants delving into identifying and analyzing cause-effect relationships?

5. What concerns do you have about using this tool in your unit?

The students ability to understand the concepts of increase/decrease when thinking about cause and effect.

6. What feedback would you like from others?

Is there a better way to word the question to scaffold the students into a higher level of thinking or broaden the ideas they come up with.

Also, besides reflecting on these questions, include:


 * An overview of how the Visual Ranking Tool would be integrated into your unit?


 * Concerns, questions, and desired feedback.