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Helpful Class Acronyms

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"LOTSA WIRES"
Our class Acronym
Conceptual Interactive Learning
  • L - Listening - Rev it up!
  • O - Observation and Interpretation
  • T - Think How and Why
  • S - Study daily (use scrap paper)
  • A - Ask Questions, Analysis, Attendance


  • W - Write in own words (Exam quides, Labs)
  • I - Intensity and focus
  • R - Relationships (look beyond the surface)
  • E - Emotion and watch energy rhythm
  • S - Sincerity, evaluation and sheets to do
"HOTS"
To Teach and Learn Biology For Higher Order Thinking Skills
D.F. Lockwood, Biology Teacher
What the teacher needs to do:
What the student needs to do:

R - illustrate relationships both within a current lesson and between lessons and chapters

A - Ask focused questions
  -Teach for analysis and applications
  -Auditory stimulation

D - Promote dialogical thinking
  - Teach topic "in depth"
  - Use diagrams

L - Laboratories
  - promote logical reasoning
  -promote listening skills and verbal skills
  - Interactive Lectures Guides

I - Be Interactive
  -ex: encouraging thinking questions, using easily understood analogies
  -Provide interactive lectures.

T - Promote thinking in terms of HOW and WHY during class and between classes
  -Organize tutorials for each major exam
  -Generative topics

E - Emotion, expression and evaluating ideas
  -Examples (precious)

S - Stimulate students with voice variation, pauses for thought, demonstrations, posters with color etc.
  -Spiral learning

C - Constructive and Concept teaching for synthesis
  -Topics can be introduced on a simplified way first
  - Then elaboration can be made on following periods

U - Promote understanding (comprehension)

R - Remembering through general techniques above plus acronyms etc.

A - Discussion of Applications, Analysis, Appreciation
  -To reinforce both understanding and memory

M - Motivation ex: Through the teacher's own enthusiasm etc.
  - mind maps

P - Promote performance of students, ex: -Lab discussions
  -Paragraph questions

L - Rev up listening skills

O - Improve powers of observation

T -Think in terms of HOW and WHY

S - Do daily self checks on:

  • interactive lectures by sketching out main topics on scrap paper (books closed and only using key words as cues)
  • synthesis of information by making summaries

A - Awareness of what you are learning and WHY
  - Anaylsis

W - Write in own style on Lab reports, paragraph exams and in daily self checks

I - Intended focus
  -Interpretations

R - Practice:

  • relationships throughout the year
  • read text, workbooks, etc.

E - self-evaluation, emotions
  -Make exam guide spread sheets, based on the text

S - Do teacher's note sheets, based on the text.

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