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Bulldog College
NORTH DALLAS BULLDOG COLLEGE
Teachers Online Professional Development Resources
PLC - All Levels
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This is Water - An inspirational graduation speech by David Foster Wallace
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
Literary Analysis Through Interactive Stations
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How does a conversation unfold among students on the Wall of Silence?
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See how students experience text physically and emotionally with the Power Tableau
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How does the Circle Discussion prepare students for writing?
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"Whoever is doing the talking is doing the learning." How can you facilitate learning through speaking in your own classroom?
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Why is it helpful to explicitly focus on academic transitions?
Socratic Seminar: Supporting Claims and Counterarguments
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What strategies encourage higher student engagement and individual participation?
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In what ways do sentence stems help students learn to respectfully express ideas?
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How might you use a Socratic seminar with the content you are currently teaching?
Author's Purpose: Analyzing and Adapting Texts
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How do you scaffold instruction to build students' understanding of the text?
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What role does modeling play in this lesson?
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How do you use the write-like, blank verse, and choral reading to make the text relevant to students?
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How does small group discussion prepare students for their writing task?
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What role does reading aloud play in the revision process?
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How does this strategy make work more manageable and effective for both teachers and students?
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How does the reaction/narrative connect to the final argument?
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How does this progression (narrative to argument) help students move from details to ideas? From concrete to abstract?
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Why is it important for students to respond to non-fiction texts?
MATHEMATICS
Self-correction: Does your answer make sense?
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How does this strategy encourage independence?
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How could this strategy be used to help students critique the work of others?
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How do real-world scenarios increase engagement and retention of concepts?
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Why is it important to give students a chance to apply their learning?
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How does this lesson address auditory, kinesthetic and visual learners?
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How does student discovery of angle relationships aid retention more than being told the angle relationship?
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How does the U-P-S process foster productive collaboration?
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How can you encourage writing in the math classroom?
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How does the teacher help students learn skills for success?