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- WHAT IS WORKSHOP WAY® INSTANT PERSONALITY-PHONICS?
WORKSHOP WAY ® Instant Personality Phonics is a systematic, comprehensive, and coherent phonics program for Grades 1, 2, and 3.
This researched- based program links an educational system with an instructional program.
The Phonics program:
• Establishes for students an understanding of the systematic & predictable relationship between spoken sounds and the written letters that the sounds represent
• Heightens phonemic awareness
• Teaches phonics,
• Give a systematic approach to word recognition,
• Promotes Fluency
• Enables students to understand that spoken words can be broken down into constituent parts
• Facilitates familiarity with the sound-symbol approach to language
WORKSHOP WAY® Phonics achieves the above research goals.
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- WHY IS WORKSHOP WAY PHONICS PROGRAM CALLED INSTANT PERSONALITY ACTIVITIES?
INSTANT Personality Activities were created using five steps that allows 100% of students access to grade level content on a daily basis. Designed so all students participate regardless of their present knowledge and motivational levels. It is organized to help the teacher have instant structured lessons at their figure tips. It promotes the following dispositions within students:
• Intellectual Safety which frees all to participate
• Willingness to be involved in learning
• Feelings of intelligence
• Feelings of importance
• Feelings of the power to manage learning
This carefully structured format generates enthusiasm in teachers which spills over to students, creating joy for learning, successful experiences about learning and mastery of academic skills.
Each grade level has lesson guides that contain 160 instant plans for systematic phonics daily lessons. It gives teachers Instant means to create “learning process” in every phonics lesson. The lessons contain Difference Questions and “Old Risk” Exercises. The five step approach to teaching brings about personal growth for their students.
The materials for these lessons supplies teachers with phonics cards, picture cards, rules, and all that is needed to teach a successful lesson and to not leave teacher preparation to chance.
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- WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO USE WORKSHOP WAY THINKERS™?
WORKSHOP WAY THINKERS are designed to develop metacognitive skills.
It coincides with research which shows activities that assist students to:
• Identify what they know and don’t know
• Utilize knowledge skills already mastered
• Develop the power to think quickly or slowly
• Use creative problem solving strategies
• Plan operational strategies
• Develop decision-making capacity
• Evaluate and critique work
• Increase ability to solve problems and think critically.
THINKERS achieve the above research goals.
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- WHAT IS IN THE CONTENT OF THINKERS?
Many of the THINKERS sold contain 100 thinking activities: classifying, ordering, categorizing in using concepts in reading, math, social studies, science etc. They have experiences that lead all students to discover they can create their own order in putting pieces of content together to make sense.
Example:
Grade Level: PreK-all levels
Purpose: Thinking by creating order, sorting, categorizing. Foundational creativity activated
Where: Alone in designated areas.
Materials: Cards for sorting, organizing, matching, and categorizing
Grade levels have 100 different THINKERS™ which need to be cut and organized into envelopes.
Example: Sample from Grades K-1 kit:
Three Title cards: (one color): Five, More Than Five, Less Than Five
Cards to sort: (another color) several cards with five objects, more than five objects, and less than five objects.
Also need Student progress cards with numbers of all of the THINKERS™ on them.
How to do THINKERS™:
Students get their Progress Card and select a THINKER™ they have not done yet. They spread out the pieces, sort the colors, and try to arrange the cards in an order that makes sense to them.
How to finish THINKERS™:
Students leave their work on the floor with their Progress Card placed on
top of it. Teachers okay the THINKERS™ with the student present, using the personal gaze technique. Students then mix the pieces, put them in the envelope, and return it to THINKERS™ box.
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- WHAT ARE RISK SHEETS FOR THINKING?
The title usually gives one a clear idea that they are used for” THINKING” by
developing competencies in distinguishing differences and, by extension, similarities.
RISK SHEETS for THINKING are in line with present research which states activities that:
• promote the recognition & verbalization of differences
• develop organized, patterned, & structured processes of thought
• involve comparisons of terms with subsequent focus on term characteristics
• require the use of complex & abstract forms of conscious awareness
• encourage engaged discussion, support inquiry, and advance multiple ideation with divergent . Responses create an effective learning environment.
WORKSHOP WAY® RISK SHEETS for THINKING achieve the above research goals.
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- HOW DOES WORKSHOP WAY HANDLE CONTENT?
WORKSHOP WAY provides students with whole person growth before any expectations are made regarding the mastery of knowledge skills. If students can grow and develop all that is really human inside of them, then they can all learn. A way of “living” is provided for students and a way of “living” is provided for teachers. This dual management system gives power to students and teachers. Students have the right to the time required to grow and hold onto their human dignity in the process. The reorganization of content facilitates the handling of little bits of knowledge by students as well as the recognition that right or wrong answers have equal value during the process of learning to learn and learning to think. What is important is that students discover that they are alive, that they are intelligent and that they have ability.
In this system, content is used to forge a special relationship between students and teachers. WORKSHOP WAY® does not individualize subject matter; it individualizes the Way and Time for “learning to learn” and “learning to think”. This process occurs whether the students are with the teacher or are in the Workshop. The management system for students creates a feeling of self worth in students. They begin to believe that they are persons who can see, hear, talk, listen, learn, think, and manage. These feelings lead to feelings of importance, intelligence, and the power of management. Living creatively fuses cognitive and affective energies and produces nourishment for ongoing mental activities in students’ brain cells. Learning has a better chance of being retained.
Thus, students come to realize that each person is equally intelligent. The dual management system permits teachers to teach in different ways to different children, and it permits students to learn how to learn, how to think, and to feel the power of self-management at any time in the Workshop or in the teaching-learning sessions.
WORKSHOP WAY® believes that human beings love learning when the learning system respects them throughout the process, frees them from fear, and allows them to be themselves along the way. Students, in turn, believe in themselves as worthwhile persons, not because of what they know or what they own; rather because they exist as
human beings who have the capacity to learn, the capacity to think, and the capacity to manage their own lives.
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- WHAT FIVE LEARNING CONDITION DOES WORKSHOP WAY PROMOTE ?
The five learning conditions that WORKSHOP WAY counts on to give all students power to get self-esteem and power to learn and to think
are:
• Intellectual creativity satisfied by being intellectually safe
• consciousness awakened
• willingness to be involved in learning activities at a risk of being right or wrong learning and achieved and stabilized
• feelings of importance, intelligence, and the power of management discovered
• feelings and thinking fused through the merging of cognitive and affective factors
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