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What about Regents Practice?
The best way to embed high-value Regents practice into your instructions is to benchmark aligned examples into an ALU. Regents style questions are NOT the end prize… But they DO emulate critical thinking practices!
Use your ALU as the WHY behind student engagement in Regents style questions.
Using Regents Questions inside your ALU.mp4Watch this 3 minute video about adding value to Regents Prep.
For example: In Social Studies, any authentic learning unit (ALU) that invites students to "act like historians" will organically call for the need to analyze primary source documents (The DBQ). Therefore, students will have a 'felt need' to learn, practice, talk with classmates about, and eventually apply strategies that will support the historical thinking practices used when reading primary documents.
Regents Chunking - Now, teachers can record several short, chunked, instructional videos on different strategies for historical thinking practices that are contextualized by the authentic learning unit... adding value!
Next, embed practice activities that look like DBQ Regents questions into your activity list. In the practice activities, chunk the activities for more targeted repetition. There should be no need to write out the answer to the DBQ for each chunk of the practice... If you chunk, students can just name the historical thinking practice that will be required for that sample question ... and also sketch the best graphic organizer... Then they can do another practice one with a partner ... and then compare their ideas for first one! (You get the gist. 🤓 And your students will be thrilled they do not need to write out the essay for these chunked practice activities!) Teachers can also offer SGMLs for those who need them!
Context for learning - Embed chunked "Regents like" activities and other instructional activities into your Activity List to build the strategies that support historical thinking required for both Regents ... AND the bigger, better picture for learning -- your exciting ALU ♥️.
Offer Five Types of Instructional Activities to strengthen student understandings and skills.
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