DELIVERY INFORMATION TO STUDENTS

When you create an EDI lesson, you are not only designing a lesson, but you are also going to teach it.

Remember: What we teach our students during

their school careers, depends on how we teach

and that depends on what we teach them!

PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE

Consists of skills, strategies, and process. It is characterized by having a methodology, a process, or steps to produce an answer or a product.

Examples: long division, writing a persuasive essay, how to solve multi step problems.

DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE

Declarative knowledge is information such as facts, time, sequence, episodes, generalizations, and principles. Examples: layout of the periodic table, how a bill becomes law, what happens during the different steps of mitosis, structural differences between myths, fairy tales, legends, folktales etc.

TEACHING STUDENTS BY EXPLAINING, MODELING, AND DEMONSTRATING

In EDI, there are 3 methods of delivering content to students. They are :

Explaining

Modeling

Demonstrating

EXPLAINING

Students, this is what this mean…

Explaining is what most people would call “teaching.” You deliver content by telling students information (Declarative knowledge) or by telling them how to do something (procedural).

Declarative is usually explained in 3rd person:

There are 3 branches of grovernemnt...they are the judicial, executive, and legislative…

Procedural is usually in 2nd person:

Students, this is how you add two-digit numbers…

Sometimes it is done in first person:

Students, this is how we add two-digit numbers…

MODELING

Students, let me show you exactly how I solve these problems…

Modeling is teaching your students aloud in first person, revealing YOUR strategic thinking processes to your students. In reality, you are not modeling how to solve a problem, but rather, what strategies were used to figure out how to solve a problem, ALOUD.

CFU MODELING

What was I thinking when I …?How did I remember …?How did I decide to ….?Why did I…?How did I know…?

MODELING AND PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE

Make and confirm predictions about text by using prior knowledge and ideas in the text itself, including illustrations, titles, topic sentences, important words, and foreshadowing clues.

During the lesson, the teachers teaches her students that predictions are not just wild guesses. They are statements about what you think will happen next based on information. She presents to her students the predicting strategies: prior knowledge, ideas presented in the text itself, like illustrations, titles, topic sentences, important words, and foreshadowing.

MODELING AND PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE

“Students, to make my predictions, I am going to do 2 things, First I am going to think about how my own experiences can help me . Then I am going to go down our list to check in the text. “ You can read the rest of the section for more on this!

TEACH YOUR STUDENTS BY PHYSICALLY DEMONSTRATING

Students, look at this object I have in my hand…

In EDI, a demonstration is physical demonstration. When you demonstrate, you use physical objects to advance students understanding. TPR!!

Example:

Identify compound words:

Printed cards with foot and ball

Putting them together, you are demonstrating that together they make up the word football.

PHYSICAL DEMONSTRATIONS

They must advance the lesson. You must be skillful in selecting physical demonstration. It is quite possible to include physical activities that do not advance the academic purpose.