 It's good to see you here. Hey, Lisa. Oh, I can see some names that I am recognizing Just gonna give a couple minutes for people to join us and Then I will flip the camera around so we are gonna be talking about Hey, is that Lynn? Lynn Martin or is it D Lynn? Tell me your names because always your handles just completely throw me off. Hi, Lisa Yes, Lynn. Okay. Good. Hey, Sandra. Hi, Erica. Hi, Kim Hey, if anybody wants to share this if you are you like invite other people to come in Hey, Marjor Marjor Marjorie, I think Julie Joshua Angie Kristen Marjorie Yep So if you want to invite people if you're on an Android swipe up and then you can hit share or you can Also hit follow if you want to be notified of these later on if you are on an iOS or honest You know an Apple phone iPhone swipe right and then you'll have the option to share or invite other people to join us So I am going to go ahead and flip around now Hey, it is great to see everybody here If this is a completely brand new thing for you and you just jumped in hey good to see Yes, if you are a teachers pay teachers person and you're going to be going to the conference in Orlando I'm going to be Presenting there. I'm going to be sharing some research based practices that That can be turned into great educational products. So I'm gonna go ahead and set this phone down. Hi Hey, Jason I Attempted to make my Periscopes less depressing by putting a little painting behind me We are in the process of Getting ready to move into a new house and we actually moved some of our stuff And then it was looking like we weren't going to get the house So we moved some of it back long story and you all are here to talk about other stuff But well Jason the color behind me. I'm in like an olive green room and it's just I don't know so I wanted to just if you are if you've been watching my Periscopes for a while Or if you're brand-new I just since I've been doing these now for about two months. I Realize no, I'm not doing snapchat yet I I got my account so that I could have the name But I do not understand snapchat at all If it sticks and it really becomes a thing that I'm sure I'll learn it But this and Instagram are both my new things this year and it is about enough so what I was gonna say is I'm starting to see these Periscopes as kind of like rough drafts for blog posts You know because really what I do and this is kind of where I see my role in general Just as a job really is that I try to take the stuff that you guys wish you had time to research and learn more about and I have the time to go and dig through research and dig through resources to find The stuff that is going to be the most helpful to you. It's you know, I'm almost seeing myself sometimes as an educational concierge so Do I not get jaded with Periscope you mean because of all the creepers? Yeah, I do I had a pretty bad experience a few weeks ago, but it was a learning experience so anyway, my point in saying that these are rough drafts is that I don't put as much time into Preparing for these Periscopes as I do for a blog post But what's happening is that they're turning into basically rough drafts for later blog posts I basically feel like I Can get enough research done that I can share some useful information And then I get information from you all in the comments and then sometimes that can actually turn into a really good long-lasting blog post. Thank you Gil so So I say that to to basically act as a disclaimer that This is not a thorough Description of all of the really best research I can find it's just what I was able to dig up in a couple of hours So what what today's Periscope is about if you're not into teaching or education? It's gonna be boring for you because we're talking about vocabulary instruction and Strategies that work best for teaching kids to improve their vocabulary. So if that is not something that interests you No, not Common Core. It's just Vocabulary I mean we've been we've been trying to teach vocabulary since way way way before the Common Core So I've had two different teachers. Yes. I'm a teacher. I was I was a teacher. I Now work full-time to help teachers improve what they do. So I Have had questions from two different readers About vocabulary and here are their two separate situations one was a teacher whose principal wanted her to teach from a A vocabulary book Okay, and wanted to make sure that you know she covered like a unit per week and she had 20 units to cover in this vocabulary book and She was feeling like she could not get them all covered. So She also felt like you know, it was getting in the way of a lot of other You know instruction and a lot of other things that she could have been doing So she thought she wanted basically my opinion on whether or not I felt that teaching from a vocabulary book Was really effective. Then I have another teacher who does kind of like a resource class where she teaches kids who are kind of falling behind and you know needed a little bit of extra support and she wanted to just but she only saw these kids for an hour a week and she really wanted to spend some time Building their vocabulary because she could see that that was really a problem in some of the stuff that they were getting tested on So she wanted to know how could she make basically make the most of this time? So to me both of these teachers are looking for you know information on what's the best way to teach vocabulary. So Any time I do these periscopes if I have resources to actually share with people That's a good question. I'm not exactly sure. I've heard the term word study a lot more lately a Lot of times when I do these periscopes I end up finding a lot of articles that I want you to be able to get to So I'm gonna go ahead and flip this around and show you how you can find those Just never seems to work that well If you go to my website It's just not gonna work today. Okay, so my website is cult of pedagogy If you go to cult of pedagogy slash periscope Every time I have stuff to share I will just add a link to that page and So this week I've got a link to a page of basically what I'm going to talk about and plus some some resources Okay, so here's what I found about vocabulary Number one the thing that I found in all of the research that I looked at was that hands down Reading widely is the most effective long-term way to boost vocabulary So if you are in a school where your administrator is really wanting you to spend as much time as possible on things like vocabulary worksheets and quizzes and More worksheets and workbooks and that sort of thing exactly Let this administrator know that really what's gonna build vocabulary the most as if students have time to read and That is reading stuff that has rich vocabulary in it and things that are going that is what is really going to improve their vocabulary It's because the words are in context. Yes, but it is it's also because it's those kinds of Exposures that kids who read a lot just have a big vocabulary because they're exposed to You know different words and they're exposed to them in different contexts and in different kinds of you know Sentences so they see them over and over again. I'm seeing so many resources coming up here, which is fantastic I'm gonna set you down again so that I'm not bouncing the phone around Okay, struggling to get them to read that that would be a completely separate Topic, but I'll tell you if you're struggling to get students to read and to work out new ways of getting reading Enjoyment in your classroom more. I would highly recommend reading Donalyn Miller's book called the book whisperer Really excellent and just so liberating in terms of Really changing the way that you teach so that there's just a whole lot more reading for pleasure and and a whole lot less time in test prep I'll give you real quick. This is a side sidebar But basically what she did was she stopped doing all kinds of you know different kinds of drills and test prep and she just Really really helped her students discover a love of independent self-selected reading and just brought in so many books and really talked them up And I'm not doing it justice at all, but her kids test scores went up. They did not do really any test prep They just read a lot So anyway, Donalyn Miller the book the book whisperer really really excellent. So that's that's how you can get and yes Thank you. She's also read a book called reading in the wild that one. I didn't read but I've heard that one a lot Okay, so that's the key point number one is Improving vocabulary give them time to read. Okay, but if you are gonna be teaching I learned up a bunch of new stuff today First of all, I discovered somebody who has a whole lot of stuff on her website and her name is Kimberley Tyson TYSON and I'm linking to some of her resources in this This page if you don't know what page I'm talking about if you just joined me go to my website cult of pedagogy Dot-com and if you can't understand what I'm saying It's my handle on periscope to and it's actually in my profile cult of pedagogy.com and then at a slash Periscope that's where I'm keeping all of my periscope resources So I linked to some of Kimberley Tyson's resources. She's just got a whole lot of good stuff And she's actually coming out with a book this summer called blended vocabulary Which I am going to make sure that people know about if you're following me on Facebook or Twitter or something Then you will find it. Oh, I can see somebody's in the document now. Good. So, okay One of the things that Kimberley Tyson has talked about is that there is there is this concept that I'm just learning about today called tiered vocabulary TIER So tier tier one tier two and tier three Lisa we're talking about the document that I've provided for this periscope That's just got links to the resources that I'm going to be talking about So if you go to cult of pedagogy comm slash periscope You will find today's date and a link to this is just a Google doc. That's got the different Different things. Okay. So tiered vocabulary basically what Kimberley Tyson says and what other experts saying is Instead of looking at vocabulary as this big large blob of all these words that I have to teach She says really as teachers what we need to be doing is separating Vocabulary words into three separate tiers. Okay, tier one vocabulary words and we sort of can decide this I think there are people out there that are creating these lists, but we decide what goes in each tier tier one is Everyday words that people just use all the time words like but just functional vocabulary words bathroom and bed and pencil and that kind of stuff Everybody knows these words. These aren't necessarily words. We need to teach tier two is academic terms that Cross-curricular boundaries. These are words like explain expand predict summarize But a lot a lot of other words like this That if you teach them in science and you teach them in language arts and you teach them in math They they can mean similar things, but they can also have different meanings in those different contexts So what she says and what other people are saying is that we really really need to focus on Teaching students those words because they are so widely used in so many academic contexts that if the kids really get a handle on Those words and how they work in what they mean in those different contexts They can then learn other vocabulary words really really well. So Definitely make sure that you focus on those and there's a link to a better explanation of what these tiered Academic words are tier three by the way Thank you for keeping mentioning the Freyer model I do not even have the Freyer model in this list and so I'm gonna make a note of that I'm gonna watch this periscope later I'm gonna make a note of that because I know I've referred to it in another blog post and So I want to make sure that if I ever turn this one into a blog post that that makes it in there because that sounds so familiar to me And I think I remember liking it a lot and seeing that it works really well Tier three Those are the nice to know words, but they're so specialized that they're not as important as the tier two words. So When you're when you're considering what words to teach them Think about that think about what kinds of academic words Are we gonna be using in the near future that our kids need to know and even better get together with your other teachers of other content areas okay By the way in general most of the resources that I was looking at today do not seem to be in favor of Vocabulary workbooks that have a word list per week where you give them on Monday And they do the definitions and they do the exercises and then they test on Friday There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of support for that For a couple of reasons one they're sort of out of context the kids are not likely to encounter these words in a lot Of other situations. They're sort of isolated even though I mean, they're probably good words to know but they're pulled out of context also just the rush in general It is better to Do fewer words for a longer period of time where the kids are gonna get multiple exposures to them. So I just did not see a whole lot of support for them most of the stuff I saw said do fewer words and longer spans of time, okay So right SAT and I do think you know, I think if the kid is preparing for the SAT sometimes you almost can't do Anything but just keep drilling But nothing makes up for years and years of reading Good, I see a comment on spelling. I actually did do a periscope on spelling a couple weeks ago So if you wanted to see that all of my replays if you look at my periscope profile There is a link to something called catch catch.me and I've got all of my old periscopes there So if you wanted to watch some of those, that's where they are Okay, so first two principles number one read widely number two teach academic vocabulary and and number three To truly learn learn learn to truly learn vocabulary students need multiple exposures to words in Meaningful varied contexts. So what that means is that you don't just have them read the definition You don't just have the word appear in a sentence It's gonna pop up frequently and here's another thing that I learned and I didn't know that this system existed But Marzano and a lot of us are familiar with Robert Marzano's name Just being connected with a lot of research-based instruction. He developed a six-step vocabulary process my My gut tells me that there are probably a lot of Systems like this. So I linked to it in this document. I linked to Marzano's I think there are probably a lot of other comparable Systems which basically involve Early exposure to the word and then another kind of exposure whether it's through drawing a picture that represents it some kind of Non-linguistic representation and then maybe seeing the word in a sentence and then maybe hearing it in a story And then having using the words come up or in a conversation or something like that So the idea is multiple exposures in meaningful contents context I did see some research on learning Latin roots instead of just Random lists and I just kind of ran out of time to pull that in here But I do think and I think later on I'm gonna I'm glad you noted that I will make a note of looking for that too because There was a whole lot of research in favor of giving kids tools to learn more words as opposed to Just teaching them a set of words So in other words if you teach them the Latin root then they can learn 60 new words that have that root as opposed to Here are 20 words that have nothing to do with each other So I do believe that there is some research too on Pulling words apart and looking at some roots Any of you who have resources I so appreciate what you're doing right now It's just adding to me just names of people because I can look all this up later And I can pull together a really really nice Comprehensive blog post with all this stuff in it. Okay. I have one more point I'm gonna drink some tea first though. Okay last summer every summer I do a book study and I I've already picked two for this summer And I cannot wait to announce them because they're going to be so good But I'm not going to announce them yet last summer I did just one book and it's a book called make it stick Uh, thank you Lisa. Thank Lisa's got the the link there and I think that's the link to this No, that's just something else. I'll look at that later The book is called make it stick and it is basically about Neuro the neuroscience of learning what happens in our brain when we learn and what things make us learn stuff For a longer period of time. It really sticks it in. Thank you Sticks it in our long-term memory and what other stuff just flies right out And the point of the book is that educators are doing a whole lot of stuff That is opposite to what brain research tells us about how the body or in the brain remembers things So two principles that I got and yeah, I did a I did a whole bunch of basically Pre-periscope periscopes where I just kind of like did videos that were looked just like this where I talked about each chapter I also interviewed one of the authors on my podcast So there's a whole bunch of information and there's a link to that in this document too I link it to my my website, which has all the other resources. Anyway, really good book two things that really stuck with me stuck from that book that I think apply to um vocabulary instruction Is number one You learn things better when you do short sessions Spaced far apart Rather than we're going to have a vocabulary review on thursday for friday's test way way better to do Five minutes on monday ten minutes on tuesday five minutes on wednesday do little Many sessions spaced further apart the brain learns better when it is treated that way to to multiple exposures So whatever you're doing to study vocabulary with your students instead of lumping everything all together spread it out The other principle of sticky learning Is is testing and I know that testing has become such a dirty word in education But just hear me out for a second because I'm not talking about standardized testing What the authors found is that when we test ourselves on our knowledge The process of being tested Actually builds new neural pathways in our brains so For example If we want our students to really really learn 10 words very well Instead of just having them stare at the list What we can do is have them test each other say what word means blah blah blah blah And then the kid tries to guess the word just that shift From looking at the information to actually trying to recall it. They I think they call it retreat. Thank you retrieval practice That came at the perfect time Retrieval practice which basically means you're testing yourself and think about it when we study for tests At least those of us who got pretty good at studying You you pull somebody aside and say okay test me on this Ask me these questions that attempt to recall the information without having it in front of you It actually makes you learn it better and college teachers They study this with college instructors the ones that gave one midterm and one final Their kids did way worse on like if they tested the kids on that information like six months after the semester was over Compared with college instructors that gave a weekly quiz on the information and then a final Just having a weekly quiz Regardless of how the the students actually did on it Just the act of being quizzed on it. Yes That challenge really kind of reinforced that knowledge because you think about it You take a quiz and then you go and you check to see how you did and you check to see what the right answer was And you check to see, you know, what what did I do wrong on this? That is all learning So there is actually a whole lot of value in that kind of testing. They call it low stakes testing in the book Which is the opposite of what everybody's doing this month, which is high stakes testing Which is this test is going to punish somebody if you don't do well on it Low stakes testing actually is a great learning tool so When you're studying vocabulary with your students do these short little, you know quizzes I want you guys to just quiz each other on on this week's, you know list or this month's list or whatever it is That type of activity in short bursts can really really help students learn the words better I want to see if I've got anything else here. So what I put at the end of this document And if anybody is just joining me, um, if you go to cultofpedagogy.com slash periscope There is a link to tonight's resources. Uh, I also just added four Um, four other resources, you know, sort of research summaries on vocabulary instruction These will be especially useful for those of you who are right now teaching Or being forced to teach with, um, you know, vocabulary workbooks and cover a certain amount of words per semester These resources could probably really help you To maybe change the mind of the person who's making you do it. So, um, I am going to Take just a second before I end this just to see if anybody has any Questions or if you wanted to share any other resources Um, and then I'll then I'll go so I'm just going to drink my tea for a minute and look at the comments Oh, I love seeing you guys saying hi to each other. That's really nice, especially Yeah, okay cultofpedagogy.com slash stick. That's the information about make it stick Hey mariel, that's okay. You can watch the replay Okay Thank you gill Thank you. Thank you all so much and you can also share these even after they're done So if you wanted to yeah, this is a good mug, right? We have a great potter in our town She sells these at the farmers market. So I'm having some decaf tea tonight Um, oh cool. Somebody finally saw me live for the first time. I don't know if this is a terrible time or not This is a good time for me to do periscope. I'm in bowling green kentucky Uh because my daughter is at gymnastics and I have to go pick her up and anyway, if I waited an hour later Lynn martin, you're in bowling green Hang on. I want to just I want to just check on that really quickly I did mariel. I I did I scoped last week. I guess you missed it But listen, you can always watch the replays if you go to my profile there are two URLs One is to my regular website and one is to my catch page catches just a website that saves periscopes basically So they don't just die for You know after 24 hours anyway, 7 30 my time central time works well for me because In about 30 minutes, I gotta start putting three kids to bed and it's just too chaotic. Everybody's sort of like zoned out right now So anyway, thank you all so much for joining me. This has been a very nice Scope with no creepers except one Um, oh, okay. I got you. I got you Lynn and um, I will be back next week And you guys want a preview of what I'm going to be talking about because I already know Because I get all of these from Reader emails Oh, okay next week. We're going to be talking about what you do When your students badmouth other teachers to you When they say stuff like you're my favorite teacher all the other teachers suck And I hate the way this one teaches and I hate the way that one does this or whatever Like what do you do in those situations? Because I think it's really tricky to keep your ego in check and be professional But that's going to be my point. So anyway, that's what we're going to talk about next week Okay, I am going to as always attempt to end my periscope with some level of grace It never seems to happen. Oh good gossip. Okay, I'll bring that up to Alrighty Swipe down and I will see you all next week. Hopefully bye. She says bye as if