Processing Information

Active processing results in students' abilities to summarize, make predictions, ask clarifying questions, and discuss chunks of critical content. Processing new information is vital to engaging students in a more rigorous learning. This will help you grow into an innovative and highly skilled teacher who is able to implement, scaffold, and extend instruction to meet all of our students needs.

Students need on going opportunities to actively process new information. You must provide them with some type of processing experience after every chunk of new information they hear, see, or read.

The following teacher behaviors are associated with facilitating the active processing of new information:

• Teaching and modeling various techniques prior to their implmentation
• Planning and providing multiple opportunities for students actively process the information
• Organizing collaborative groups 
• Encourage and Motivate student to persevere through the new information
• Gradually release responsibility to students for their own processing
• Ongoing monitoring for result

Three common mistakes the teacher can make while seeking to become skills with this strategy:

• Does not intentionally plan for enough time that students can actively process the information
• Does not use the power of collaborative groups to assist students with the new information
• Does not gradually release the reins of responsibility for learning to students. 

Here is the main source of evidence that would show you your students are able to process information:

• They can explain or paraphrase after your lesson
• They can volunteer predictions
• They can ask clarifying questions
• They can discuss information by asking and answering questions 
• They can generate conclusionsa
• They can summarize new information
• They can write in response to the new information

There are 6 instructional techniques to facilitate the process of information.

• Using Collaborative Processing
• Using Think Pair Share
• Using Concept Attainment
• Using Jigsaw
• Using Reciprocal Teaching
• Using Scripted Cooperative Dyads

After reading the above, what elements do you think you could hit by using these instructional techniques? I know this is element 10 but it ties into many other elements too. You can use the techniques within DQ2, 3, and 4. 

Here is a link to the book (only some parts) that I pulled the information from:https://www.learningsciences.com/media/catalog/product//p/n/pni_lookinside.pdf

We have a hard copy of the entire book if you would like to borrow it. This will provide you an opportunity to read more about the 6 instructional practices.

Here is a useful video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtmB8uF8KiU

Have a nice week! :)