1. Comparing Team Meeting 2.15.11

3. Recommendations for Classroom Practice Give students a model Use familiar content Give Students Graphic Organizers Guide students as needed

5. Use familiar content Everyday comparisons can help students understand the steps in the process. Understanding and following steps in a process for comparing helps students when they use the process with content knowledge!

6. Graphic Organizers Venn Diagrams Comparison Matrix Classification charts Check out the following link for G.O. ideas K-adult: Marzano's Strategies

7. Guide students as needed At first, you might identify the items and their characteristics to compare. After some practice, you might identify the items to compare and ask students to choose the characteristics they will base their comparison on.

8. Web Resources Free Graphic Organizers Student Lesson Time for Kids Contest

9. Looking at Student Work Identify Sample Source Identify Expectations Assessment of work Samples Share out

10. Identify Sample Source What classroom is this from? What were students asked to do?

11. Expectations for Looking at work Read each question carefully Look for evidence of student learning Make notes on each student’s performance Identify Common Patterns Take 5 minutes to look at the samples.

12. Share Out Around the horn! What is the evidence of student learning? What did you notice? Specific Student Examples? What common trends did you notice?

13. Action Items Use this strategy in your classroom during the next two weeks. Submit one class set of student work by Feb. 28th You do not need to grade the work sample.