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GANAG Overview: Making Connections to High-Yield Strategies
- Assessment
- (Ch. 2) Identifying Similarities and Differences
- (Ch. 3) Summarizing and Note Taking
- (Ch. 4) Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
- (Ch. 5) Homework and Practice
- (Ch. 6) Nonlinguistic Representations
- (Ch. 7) Cooperative Learning
- (Ch. 8) Setting the Objective
- (Ch. 9) Generating and Testing Hypotheses
- (Ch. 10) Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
- Objective Score Sheets
- Providing Feedback
- Sample GANAG K-12 Lessons
- Technology Tutorials
GANAG Overview: Making Connections to High-Yield Strategies
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Dr. Jane E. Pollock is using the Schema for Master Learners as she works with a group of Rogers Schools educators.
The Schema is based on the components of the "Big Four" which are
- Use of a well-articulated curriculum
- Plan for delivery
- Varied assessment
- Criterion-based feedback.
The Schema includes a set of sequenced lesson planning steps abbreviated, "GANAG", which allows the teacher to plan for the student use of research-based instructional strategies. For more in-depth information, please refer to the book, Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time or contact your academic facilitator.
Beginning of the Lesson
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Teacher Planning
Goal Setting for the Learners
Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
Setting ObjectivesAccess Prior Knowledge
Non-linguistic Representations
Cooperative Learning
Cues, Questions, Advance OrganizersStudent Production
Feedback should be embedded into each component of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. It is the critical element of the whole process that can have dramatic difference on student learning.
Middle of the Lesson
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Teacher Planning
Acquire New Information - Declarative, Procedural, or Both
Summarizing and Note Taking
Homework and PracticeApply Knowledge - a Thinking Skill or Practice
Identifying Similarities and Differences
Generating and Testing Hypotheses
Cues, Questions, Advance OrganizersStudent Production
The result of students "Applying their Knowledge" through thinking skills or practice, can end with a product. These student products can range from graphic organizers or models to multimedia productions.
End of the Lesson
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Teacher Planning
Revisit the Goal
Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
Setting Objectives and Providing FeedbackStudent Production
Assessment includes both formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment is "for instruction". It occurs while the instruction or program is still in progress. Summative assessment is "of instruction", occurring after the program or instruction is concluded.
GANAG Links and Resources
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How to Build a Better Lesson- The chart provides a brief explanation of how the components of GANAG, the connections in the students' brain, effective instructional strategies, and critical thinking skills all fit together.
Objective Score Sheets
Shared GANAG Lessons
