Argumentation PD with Jacinta Oldheaver and Dr. Cynthia Greenleaf

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Dr. Cynthia Greenleaf

www.readingapprenticeship.org

set norms- trust to diagree and the idea that no one is right or wrong means that the students can let out their thoughts without fear.  Practicing this with a low stakes task is effective.

Do the argumenatation activity.

Revisit your norms- go meta, decide what we did well and what we can improve on.
Slip or Trip

how did you work with others to figure this out?

Break it down and do smaller groups- engages more students. Put a

Kiwi kids news, can we comment on it?
Are we using kiwi kids news so that we could argue?

Comment on the class blog as a discussion, using evidence and typing.

This could be done once a week as a must do. What do you think?

can print out these conversatoins and then let them go back and revisit.  Review their norms vis this.


Reflection on Learning:
After the session with Cynthia it was clear to me that the norms I have set in my class for discussions, both around learning or agreeing and disagreeing were heavily assistive in giving my students the ability to communicate effectively in this scenario.  Beginning on day 1 by eliminating the hands up was a win.

Argumentation is going well in my class although if I reflected on the norms, not just the environment ones (listen, respect etc) but also the academic ones (use evidence, agree/disagree etc) it would make it easier for the students to improve and give each other tips.

Next steps: 
-Make norms explicit- put these into our discussion matrix.
-Reflect on these norms in the next few weeks and update the Matrix.
-Think about putting the argumentations on the class blog to increase the engagement via comments.
-Getting the students to record their arguments and then type to help them record their awesome ideas that they might forget when it comes to typing. 




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