[nobe-l] Anchor charts, graphic organizers and next steps

Wed Mar 28 16:53:27 UTC 2018

Hi Valerie,

Sorry for not replying sooner. Here are a few ideas/thoughts.
I teach 6th Grade, and we use a lot of graphic organizers. Many times, you have to have them prepared digitally for display ahead of time. For example, I use a sequence graphic organizer for the students to show the progress of the Nile River as it flows through Egypt with rains flooding the river, and the river gathering minerals and nutrients from the banks, and depositing it along the river farther down.
They have to draw an illustration of the stages in the box and then label it.
Ahead of time, I got assistance from a reader to put the graphic organizer in a PPT. Each successive slide had the same graphic organizer, but the next box with an illustration and label. We did it 4, or 5 boxes in, but then I just gave the students the label and they had to draw their own illustration.
I should clarify because you cannot easily draw, if you even are able to, in PowerPoint, so we used a flipchart that goes along with a smart board on which you can draw. My board stopped working, so the information had to be copied and pasted basically into PPT slides.
Anyway, I hope this information provides some explanation of something I have to do in order to use graphic organizers.
I have a lot more information to share on the matter, so contact me off list if you would like.
Brian

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Subject: Re: [nobe-l] Anchor charts, graphic organizers and next steps

Hi,

  That is a good suggestion.  However I’m working with second graders, and because of circumstances beyond our control, they’re really far behind in reading and writing.

> On Mar 13, 2018, at 6:07 AM, Tara Abella via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi Valery,
> 
> 
> Could the kids fill it out? The person who gives an answer or idea could write it on the chart. It also would be a job for a student who has trouble focusing or likes to be a helper.
> 
> Tara Abella
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Mar 12, 2018, at 10:32 PM, Valerie Gibson via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have another quick question that I wonder, and my professors wonder the same.
>> Anchor charts and graphic organizers are quite popular nowadays in general ed classrooms it seems.  How do you design and fill those out with students while teaching a mini lesson?  I assume they must be made ahed of time, but from what I’ve seen of graphic organizers in tactile graphics, they’re pretty spacial. How do you know where to put information in them? The same question applies to charts?
>> My elementary school teacher that I’m working with says that often times, she makes them ahead of time. She doesn’t think it crucial that the basic framework be made with the kids, but my field supervisor insists that when you’re working with kids, they should be made with the class.
>> On a more positive note, I do have a couple professors who are willing to expect reasonable accommodations to be made in my field courses, but they’re unclear as to what would be considered a reasonable accommodation.  For example, do the same accommodations that they would make for me as a student apply for me to expect from the districts?
>> They insist I try to get in touch with someone who’s worked with sighted kids, preferably ones in elementary school to see if I can’t get information for how best they can help me.  I’m sure they’d also like to talk to any blind educator who’s working with sighted kids, eventually, but they want me to reach out first.  For some of my professors, I don’t think the issue is that they’re unwilling to make accommodations fo rme. They just want  to know what is a reasonable accommodation to some of the things they’re asking me to do, and more importantly, will that carry over into the job aspect.
>> I start student teaching next semester. Right now, I’m doing a sort of intern semester.  So if anyone’s free to contact me so I can pick your brains, please contact me off list.  
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