At the top and in the middle of your Concept Question Board should be a banner with the name of your theme on it. I’ve created a series of banners for almost every unit in both OCR 2000 and OCR 2002 that can be printed out and put up. I’ve used photos rather than clip …
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Anatomy of a Concept Question Board
Perhaps I’ve been a little too obtuse in my discussion of the Concept Question Board as related to Wikipedia and Jung’s theory of collective unconscious. Let’s step back a little and make sure you have the basic things that you’re supposed to on the board… See this image larger. Also related: Everything You Always Wanted …
The Concept Question Board of the Future
I’ve mentioned elsewhere teachers who have used blogging as a modern day platform for their Concept/Question Board. Alice Mercer has now re-imagined the Concept/Question Board using VoiceThread, an online digital storytelling platform. Here, students record their voices asking questions and telling what they know about the coming unit. See VoiceThread Online Concept/Question Boards: Third Grade: …
The Concept/Question Board: Wikipedia on Your Wall
The Concept/Question Board, the second cousin twice removed, to the KWL chart, is a required component of the Open Court Reading program. Some teachers don’t use it at all. Others have gotten good at putting them up but then they just kind of hang there like wallpaper, barely touched until the end of the unit …
There’s No Such Thing as a Dumb Question But…
It’s true that there’s no such thing as a dumb question when it comes to the Concept/Question Board (or KWL chart). It’s okay for students for students to put up whatever unit related questions they have whether they’re silly or not. However, what’s not okay is for those silly questions to stay up on the …
Give Up Control
Although teachers tend to view Open Court as a scripted program, there are some places in the program (or any other) where teachers need to give up some control. Not everyone is comfortable giving up control as a teacher. Are you? My classroom management has always been firm. I’m not someone who likes a free …
The Concept Question Board Part 2: Questions
While the first step, Part One: Soliciting Artifacts may not be easy at first, it can be a piece of cake compared to soliciting meaningful questions from students about the unit theme. This month I hope to provide some assistance on how to elicit meaningful higher level thinking questions from your students. 1. Activate Prior …
The Concept Question Board: Part 1
The Open Court Resources.com Newsletter The Concept Question Board Introduction Many teachers, myself included, have struggled with integrating the Concept Question Board meaningfully into the Open Court Curriculum. Even those who have beautiful looking Concept Question Boards often put it up on the first day of the unit and leave it there as the best …