Meeting Reminders for the Rest of March
- 3/24--Annual Required MAP Meeting
- 3/31--1:1 Tech PD
April's Thinking Strategy: Synthesizing
Synthesizing is the process whereby a student merges new information with prior knowledge to form a new idea, perspective, or opinion or to generate insight. It's important to reading and to learning. When students
- elaborate on new information (to make inferences not explicitly taught),
- record and represent knowledge (i.e., their understanding of the information),
- examine similarities and differences or errors in reasoning, and
- generate and test and hypotheses (to see if their new idea, perspective, opinion, or insight "works" or not)
they are relying, in part, on their ability to synthesize. In what ways can you help your student's synthesize in your subject area? Click here to learn more and for Discovery-related resources.
Have a great week!