Teacher to Teacher

I am gathering some resources for an upcoming presentation and came across these videos from YouTube in which a teacher uses a technique very similar to the one I described in yesterday’s post about scaffolding academic discourse.  However, in this video she is using the technique to teach a vocabulary word to her middle school students.  One problem I have with this particular example is the teacher’s model sentence, which sends the students down the path of practicing non-examples of the target word rather than examples (“not productive” for the target word “productive”).  If your school has blocked YouTube, you will not be able to view the videos.  The video is divided into two parts.

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA44RP-70YE

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPwv-mjB6pg

To see Dr. Anita Archer using a similar technique with Kindergarten and Second Grade students, visit Dr. Archer’s Video Series.

Here are the pdf files that accompany Dr. Archer’s two  vocabulary videos:

• Kindergarten Vocabulary Lesson
• Second Grade Vocabulary Lesson