Building capacity through Warm-ups and Questions of the day
Building capacity through Warm-ups and Questions of the day A common way to spiral content is giving students a "problem of the day" for students to answer. Through work with the Timberline 5th grade team this year, we've landed on a simple system that works really well to build student understanding one step at a time. We began by asking, "What is it that students have the most trouble with?" The answer is often interpreting graphs, data tables, charts, and pictures. (Those dual-coded questions get a kid every time!) So, instead of posting a whole question for students to answer, we began with the graphic and a simple question, like this. This was a warm-up question for day 1. Day 2 got a little more complex in that the question from the released STAAR was added, but no answer choices were included, like this. Day 3 of the same question now gave students the answer choices and asked students to justify their answer. This is really