Took some time this weekend to update my Thinking Classroom sketchnote to the contain the now 14 elements as outlined by Peter Liljedahl:
– Laura Wheeler (Teacher @ Ridgemont High School, OCDSB; Ottawa, ON)
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Laura,
Thank you again for your wonderful summary. I am diggin in this morning and now have a questions. Hoping you can help me with it. I am preparing a presentation for early January on this work and want to be as clear as possible in my own head.
Step 7 Meaningful notes – encourages doing this after leveling, which is currently step 10. That makes sense to me. So does that mean you might stop for a first draft of notes and then fine tune after leveling, or should notes be moved in this progression? Or does this depend on the type of activity/learning that is planned for the day/week ??
Thanks in advance for clarifying.
I think the steps refer more to the steps of teacher implementation … meaning implementing student-centred note-taking is easier than implementing levelling to the bottom. But within a class period you would level to the bottom first, then give students a chance to write some notes / a summary about what they’ve learned. Does that make sense?
Yes, that helps clarify alot. I saw that idea represented on the graphic in this article as well: https://www.edutopia.org/article/building-thinking-classroom-math
Thank you for the quick reply.
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Dear Laura Wheeler. I couldn’t find your email address so I hope it’s okay to write here. Would it be okay with you if I would translate your sketchnote on thinking classroom to Icelandic? It would look similar and I would refer to your original work. The reason for translation being: We are expecting Peter Liljedahl to come to visit Iceland next year and are planning by translating his articles partly into Icelandic also. All the best, Bea
Hi Bea, yes so long as the artwork or inspiration for is credited I would love for you to translate it into another language. That’s awesome. Please share the final product when you’re done – I’d love to add it here. My email is laura.wheeler @ ocdsb.ca [no spaces]
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