What? I didn’t come here for
Culture!
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•Deepen teachers’ math and science content and
pedagogical content knowledge.
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•Strengthen teachers’ ability to engage students in math
and science practices in everyday instruction.
•Strengthen teachers’ ability to develop and implement
learning experiences aligned with CCSS and NGSS.
SEISMIC Summer Academy Goals
Our SEISMIC Pedagogical
Learning Log
• A new notebook—please don’t start writing in it yet!
• Open to page 5 (leave a few blank pages in the front)
• Tabs available at your tables if you want to use them
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Our SEISMIC Pedagogical
Learning Log
• LEFT SIDE –student
page
• My thinking
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RIGHT SIDE-teacher
page
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Information
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• Left side – YOUR thinking
What I think I know about learning logs
Please take about 2 minutes to
consider what you think you
already know about learning
logs. There are many varieties
etc.
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Right Side – Information
Name of pedagogical move:
Learning Logs
Pedagogical Learning Log
• Left side – YOUR
thinking
What I think I know
about Learning Logs…
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RIGHT SIDE-information
Name or description of strategy:
Learning Logs
Purpose: your notes…
Learning Logs – Purpose
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From Dialectical Journals, Learning Logs and AVID journals
•Learn by writing (Write to Learn)
•Note taking
• Track learning and/or process
•Learners’ reflections on what they are learning - connections
•Deepens thinking
• A place to ask questions - connections
• Formative Assessment-teacher or self
•Can be used for any content! Common among scientists and engineers…
•Can include problem-solving entries from math or science, observations from
lab experiments, questions about lectures or readings, etc.
Our SEISMIC Pedagogical
Learning Log
Left side-student
thinking
What I think I know
about this
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Right Side-teacher information
Name or description of strategy:
Learning Logs
Purpose: Share what you noted as
key to remember…
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Learning Logs – Steps
• Decide on your purpose for the notebook
•Cross subjects?
•Single subjects?
•Multiple in one notebook?
•Obtain a notebook for each student
•Model set-up (you decide what is important to include)
Pedagogical Moves
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Table of contents
Number pages
Log will be pedagogical moves used throughout SEISMIC
•Keep it simple and manageable for you
•The most important step---USE THE LOG!
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Learning logs – variations…(unlimited!)
example questions for left side
• What do I THINK I know about xxx? (Later)
• What do I now understand about xxx?
• What did I do in class today?
• What did I learn?
• What did I find interesting?
• What questions do I have about what I learned?
• What was the point of today’s class?
• What connections did I make to previous ideas of lessons?
• Additional ideas?
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SEISMIC Pedagogical Learning Log
Left side
What I think I know
about this
Right Side
Name or description of strategy
Purpose
Steps How was the move
planned, set up, what
happened? bullets, narrative,
sketch…what works for you?
Variations if appropriate.
Back to the left side! Your
thinking…
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SEISMIC Pedagogical Learning Log
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Left side
What I think I know about
this
What I understand now
How this could support
student engagement
How I might use this to
enhance instruction with
my students next year Include
how you might modify for your situation!
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Table of Contents
Number your pages up through this strategy.
Back to your table of contents—
Learning Logs
pages x - x
Say Something….
How was it taught/facilitated – Let’s dig into the
pedagogy of Say Something
Another page in your pedagogical learning log…
Number your pages
Add this move to the Table of Contents page
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Say Something
www.adaptiveschools.com
Process:
1. Work with your partner
2. Read silently and simultaneously to a mutually agreed upon
stopping point (consider 1-3 paragraph chunking).
3. When each partner is ready, stop and “say something.” The
something might be a question, a brief summary, a key
point, an interesting idea, or a personal connection.
4. Continue the process until you have completed the section
5. At the end of the reading, have a conversation about the
entire reading, inquiring into the other person’s thinking.
6. End with a group discussion
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SEISMIC Pedagogical Learning Log
Left side
What I think I know about this
What I understand now
How this could support student
engagement
How I might use this to enhance
instruction with my students next year
Right Side
Name or description of strategy: Say
Something
Purpose: What is the purpose? (how
did the process support your
learning?_
Steps How was the move planned,
set up, what happened? (you have
this on the handout)
Variations if appropriate.
Pedagogical Logs – a specific type 18
of learning log for educators
• Scale 1-5, 5 high—how did this pedagogical move
help you as a learner?
• What would have helped me more
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• Pedagogical Logs (instructional moves)
and
• Content Learning Logs (math and science)
Three Shifts in ELA/Literacy
1. Building knowledge through content-rich
nonfiction
2. Reading, writing and speaking grounded in
evidence from text, both literary and
informational
3. Regular practice with complex text and its
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academic language
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SEISMIC Content learning logs---Reflections on
the material we are learning
• Record the process we went through in learning
something new
• Questions we want to have clarified
• Specifics from the content professors