HYS
High Yield Strategies
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1. Identifying Similarities and Differences
2. Summarizing and Note Taking
3. Reinforcing Effort and Providing
Recognition
4. Homework and Practice
5. Nonlinguistic Representations
6. Cooperative Learning
7. Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
8. Generating and Testing Hypotheses
9. Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
Research Data
Categories in Instructional Strategies That Affect Student Achievement
Category
Average Percentile
Size (ES)
Gain
No. of
ESs
Standard
Deviation
(SD)
Identifying similarities and differences
1.61
45
31
0.31
Summarizing and note taking
1.00
34
179
0.5
Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
0.80
29
21
0.35
Homework and practice
0.77
28
134
0.36
Nonlinguistic representations
0.75
27
246
0.4
Cooperative learning
0.73
27
122
0.4
Setting objectives and providing feedback
0.61
23
408
0.28
Generating and testing hypotheses
0.61
23
63
0.79
Questions, cues and advance organizers
0.59
22
1,251
0.26
www.mcrel.org,
Classroom Instruction that Works
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I. What Will Students Learn?
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Setting Objectives
II. Which Strategies Will Provide Evidence
of Student Learning?
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2.
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Providing Feedback
Providing Recognition
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III. Which Strategies Will Help Students Acquire and
Integrate Learning?
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4.
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Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
Nonlinguistic Representation
Summarizing and Note Taking
Cooperative Learning
Reinforcing Effort
IV. Which Strategies Will Help Students Practice,
Review, and Apply Learning?
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Identifying Similarities and Differences
Homework and Practice
Generating and Testing Hypotheses
Identifying Similarities and Differences…
Recommendations…
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1. Teach student to use comparing, classifying,
metaphors, and analogies when they identify
similarities and differences.
2. Give students a model of the steps for engaging
in the process.
3. Use a familiar context to teach students these
steps.
4. Have students use graphic organizers as a visual
tool to represent the similarities and differences.
5. Guide students as they engage in this process.
Gradually give less structure and less guidance.
A First Activity
Task #1:
Write the name of a famous person on an
index
card. Place your card in a stack with the
other
cards of your colleagues.
Next….
Task #2:
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Select the poem, “Backward Bill,” from the
choices at www.shelsilverstein.com. Look
in books under A Light in the Attic.
Read/listen to the poem.
Last….
Task #3:
 Draw an index card from the stack.
 Create a graphic organizer to explain how the
character in your poem is like and is different from
the person on the index cards in terms of the
following criteria: looks, actions, character traits –
more teacher directed.
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Go to http://www.teachnology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/venn_diagrams or
www.readwritethink.org – Student Materials –
Venn Diagrams. Click on the interactive tool.
Task 2
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Memory Line - definition: Comparison
reviewing one set of learned information
with new information with the goal of
answering a question.
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Example: Illinois and another state
Criteria – Geography, history, population,
agriculture, industry, tourism
Research information – www.50states.com
The Question: In which state would I
rather live?
Illinois
Washington
Geography:
Geography:
History:
History:
Population :
Population:
Agriculture:
Agriculture:
Special Places to see:
Special Places to see:
Setting Objectives
Recommendations…
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1. Set learning objectives that are specific
but flexible
2. Allow students flexibility in personalizing
the learning objectives or goals
3. Communicate the learning objectives or
goals to students and parents
4. Contract with students to attain specific
learning objectives or goals
Add a dose of technology…
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Word processing
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KWHL chart
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The subject is the book Using Technology
with Classroom Instruction that Works
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What do you know about it? (K)
What do you want to learn about it? (W)
How do you plan to learn it? (H)
(L) will come later…
Why?
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3. Communicate the learning objectives or
goals to students and parents
Why?
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4. Contract with students to attain specific
learning objectives or goals
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Word processing
“Learning Goals Sheet”
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My Learning Goals
Our class learning goal for this unit:
Complete the following sentences to set your
personal learning goals:
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I know…
But I want to know…
I want to know more about…
Data Collection Tools…
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Collecting data guidelines…
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Consider including some engaging background
information on the topic
Be sure to include open-ended questions that will
reveal any misconceptions that you might need to
address
Keep your survey short enough to ensure a large
response and give your students credit for
completing it
Free or inexpensive online survey Web
Sites
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www.surveymonkey.com
www.pollcat.com
www.websurveyor.com/free-survey-tools.asp
www.profilerpro.com
www.polleverywhere.com
Survey
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http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Q
sk0eB7BTbuWcwV6jgXCjQ_3d_3d
Fossil survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=z3C5M_2fhNCW0dxQSjUKX_2bdA_3d_3d
Blogs…
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A web-based publication of periodic journal
entries, usually presented in reverse
chronological order with the most current post
appearing first.
Visit this blog and add a comment…
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http://mrszimmdvd.wordpress.com
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www.wordpress.com
Samples…
http://escrapbooking.com/blogging/teaching.htm
http://sculbreth1.edublogs.org
http://millard.esu3.org/willow/index.html
Summarizing
Recommendations…
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Teach students the rule-based summarizing
strategy
Use summary frames
Teach students the reciprocal teaching
strategy
AutoSummarize
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Summarizing with Auto Summarize
Tools>Auto Summarize
Then you have 4 options…
1. Highlight the key points
2. Insert an executive summary at the top of the
document
3. Insert an executive summary in a new document
4. Hide everything except the executive summary
without leaving the document
Sum it up…
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Using Microsoft word
Note Taking
Recommendations…
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Give students teacher-prepared notes
Teach students a variety of note-taking
formats
Use combination notes
Combination Notes
Outline format in word…
Summarizing with Multimedia
Combination Notes Criteria
The Outsiders
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Use the combination notes template
Identify at least three major themes
Enhance each theme with relevant graphics, sounds, links, or
video clips
At the bottom of each notes slide, include a brief statement
summarizing the preceding themes
Use legible fonts between 16 to 40 points
Ensure color contrast is visually appealing and easy to read
Randomly selected students will present their notes orally to the
class
Less is more. Too much text can make your presentation too
cluttered. Save detailed explanations for oral remarks
Insert Title
Identify the Major themes
Multimedia Theme
enhancements
Summary Statement
1. Gang/Class Conflict
3. Listen to
song
2. Honor among thieves
3. Redemption/SelfSacrifice
1. Gang
Graffiti
4. Superficial
Prejudgment
4. Watch
video clip
2. Robin Hood and his
merry men
The lowest and highest social classes are equally capable of both
noble and malicious acts.
Cornell note making
http://cssdesigns.com/learningtoolbox/c
ornell.html
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Cornell Note Tutorial…
Have a wonderful evening…