Inductive Science, First Grade: Seeds, Bulbs, and Tubers
Video clips, from across several days, of inductive lessons in science. The items in the data set are seeds, bulbs, and tubers.
Inductive Writing 5th Grade
Inductive lesson that has students studying opening of books, identifying attributes of these openings, and writing using some of these same attributes. The items in the data set are the openings sentences and paragraphs of children’s books.
Panama Concept Attainment Oxy 12th Grade
Concept Attainment lesson on oxymorons (Video ends around 9:26.)
CA Where Two
Concept Attainment lesson with third grade students to help them learn how to add details about setting to their writing
Emily KG PWIM Part I
Days One and Two with kindergarten students who are being introduced to the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM)
Emily Calhoun KG PWIM Satilla Part Two
Days Three and Four with kindergarten students in this short cycle of the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM)
Emily Kg PWIM part III
Days Five and Six with kindergarten students in this short cycle of the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM)
PWIM in One School with English and French Immersion
Video clips of four teachers using the Picture Word Inductive Model: two in French and two in English
Lisa Dino Pgh
A first grade teacher, using the sentences developed by her students, works on classifying a set of these sentences into a group, and models how she composes a paragraph about their PWIM picture
Moths Pgh Lisa
Using a children’s nonfiction book, a first grade teacher works with her students and models comprehension with the comparison/contrast text structure. Then she has students identify the attributes of two similar insects as she enters them in a Venn Diagram on an electronic whiteboard. After the similarities and differences have been identified, Lisa composes a paragraph using a comparison/contrast organizational pattern and shares her thinking about how and why she makes the “writing” decisions she does. The video ends with individual students in the classroom’s “Recording Studio” reading an excerpt from a children’s nonfiction science book of their choice.
Eight Seconds
A first grade teacher models how she improves a paragraph that has been made from a group of PWIM sentences. She shares her thinking about why she’s making the changes she does as she demonstrates the editing on an electronic whiteboard. This lesson is part of a PWIM cycle; however, the composing aloud that Lori does could be done with any students who need support with revising their informative writing.
PWIM with Struggling Middle School Readers
Lisa introduces the Picture Word Inductive Model to a Read to Succeed (R2S) class of struggling older readers who are still very much “beginning readers” in terms of understanding and using word properties (phonics and structural analysis). The video includes excerpts from the first three days of the PWIM cycle. (Video ends at 38:33.)
BJ Talk on PWIM and Second Chance
Bruce Joyce discusses the components of the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) and the use of PWIM in Second Chance and Read to Succeed programs for struggling older readers. (This is a lecture, not a demonstration lesson.) See “Chapter Resources” on this website for a paper describing Read to Succeed and Second Chance: “The ‘Overage’ Beginning Reader: An Action Research Test of a Multidimensional
Approach.”
Synectics Stretch
A coach works with third grade students to introduce them to synectics using direct and personal analogies. (Video ends at 13:38.)
India Synectics
Bruce Joyce works with older students in Poona, India, introducing them to synectics and the use of direct analogies, personal analogies, and compressed conflicts. Part of the lesson focus is on using compressed conflicts when composing in order to take a fresh look at the content being presented or to take a different perspective.
India Inquiry
Bruce Joyce works with older students in Poona, India, introducing them to the Inquiry Training Model. The problem posed to students is one that anthropologists took many years to solve: a tribe in the New Guinea Highlands had deaths from an unknown cause at intervals over the years. (Lesson begins at approximately 2:14.)
Lori Main Idea
Lori demonstrates a strategy for determining main idea using Explicit Instruction with
Metacognition (or, better known as Explicit Strategy Instruction, Chapter 15).
The Concept of Coaching Rationale
This is one of Bruce Joyce’s early lectures on Theory/Demonstration/Workshop Practice +
Feedback/Peer Coaching. Working with members of a District Leadership Team, Bruce reviews the research on the transfer of models of teaching from the workshop setting into classroom practice (about 20 minutes). Then he focuses on the use of peer coaching to support teachers in continuing to practice in their classroom and develop expertise with the models they are expanding or learning. The importance of the learning community is emphasized as these district members think about strengthening professional development in their setting.