-How important is accessing prior knowledge for students? (Baseball study) How do you immerse students in background knowledge or text sets to facilitate activation?
Accessing prior knowledge is essential before reading a passage. It doesn't matter about the student's reading ability if they do not have the background knowledge to understand what is occurring. I immerse students in background knowledge before reading a text through group discussions to give an overview of the topic, lectures with guided notes, Crash Course, and sometimes Oversimplified (usually used as a tool to review what I have covered). I also find geographical and historical context essential to understanding a passage in social studies.
-Multiple exposures are essential for retention and independence. How will you offer these opportunities?
For reading, it starts with re-reading and summarizing, connections, analysis, etc. Having different perspectives on the same topic (different primary and secondary sources on the same topic) allows for retention because you are getting more repetitions.
Repetition is important with content recall as well. This is why I do objective sheets, repeat bell ringers on essential questions that constantly appear on the regents, and ball review. Repetition has always been prominent, as I am a big believer in the effective teaching techniques taught by Jean and David.
-What strategies stuck out to you in this chapter, and what ones and how will you bring them into your instruction?
I use KWL once in a while. I like the "KWL 2.0" that allows students to connect more to their original questions instead of only showing what they have learned. I hope to incorporate this "KWL 2.0" this upcoming year.
I think it might be a fun idea to try the thematic cluster in my government and philosophy courses this year. It would be good to see what people know and their perspectives on the United States government. I also intend to use the nonfiction signs posts on page 128 to ensure students are analyzing those elements.
I like the think-aloud strategy. I might use that as an alternative to how I teach students to use the documents in enduring issue essays.
ABC Reformulation could be a good review activity for an important topic. The French Revolution would be an excellent example for Global 10.