Strategies Online: Compare and Contrast | Successline Inc.
Program Description
Compare and Contrast are skills which help us see how things are alike and different, thereby helping us name those characteristics. With these skills students can create labels, descriptors, and categories that will be classified. These are essential paths for the brain in critical thinking. In this online workshop, participants learn to create materials for teaching students to compare and contrast with a Venn Diagram as a tool. Two important features of this online program are how to use Venn Diagram Planners and how to make sure that critical thinking really happens when working with Venn Diagrams.
Virginia Standard(s) Addressed
Planning and Assessment (ISLLC standard 3)Instructional Leadership (ISLLC standard 1)
Professionalism (ISLLC standards 5 & 6)
Program Goals and Objectives
By the end of this program, participants will learn how to:
- Review research and background information related to comparing and contrasting, including the use of the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast.
- Create and use a Venn Diagram Planner.
- Create and use tools (e.g., manipulatives, Venn diagrams) to help support student thinking of comparing and contrasting.
- Develop a lesson that includes a completed example of a Venn Diagram Planner, a Venn Diagram, and summary of the information on the Venn Diagram.
Program Format
During this online workshop, participants will add knowledge and ideas to their teaching toolkit in a variety of ways: video, online readings, links to other sites, research connections, and more! The workshop is designed in modules to make it easy for participants to visit and revisit parts of the lesson.Target Audience
- district-level instructional leadership administrators
- school improvement teams
- administrators
- lead teachers
- special education administrators
- Title I administrators
- school leaders not yet making AYP
- aspiring school or district leaders
- all teachers
Self-Selection and/or Identification Through School Division
Yes.Duration of Program
This online program, including studying the materials and developing a lesson, takes approximately five hours.Outcomes Measured
This is a product-based program and participants design a lesson that includes a number of things: Venn Diagram PlannerT with categories and attributes included, a blank Venn Diagram Planner, a page of manipulatives that students will cut and use, a completed Venn diagram with labels, and a completed Venn diagram template with the title, word list, and the summary of the graphic. Participants will have a rubric to help guide the development of a high-quality lesson.Program Evaluation
- Participants complete an online or paper survey; results are reported back to the host district.
- Quality of the lessons designed by school staff.
Contact Information
Mark and Deborah Wahlstrom
Successline Inc.
137 Pitchkettle Point Circle
Suffolk, Virginia 23434
office: 757-539-6513
fax: 757-539-6523
mobile: 757-650-3388
Mark.Wahlstrom@successlineinc.com
datadeb@successlineinc.com
www.successlineinc.com