CLVG
Collaborative Listening and Viewing
Guide
Purpose:
To help students learn from visual information
Description: The collaborative
listening and viewing guide is a lesson framework to help students learn from
information observed and/or heard. It can be used to manage and organize content
learned from experiments, demonstrations, lectures, information on field trips
or videotapes.
Procedure:
- Preview/review information. In this introductory phase, give an overview
of the topic, pre-teach significant terms if needed and/or elicit the
students' background knowledge on the topic. This information can be
organized on the board in the form of a semantic map.
- Record individually. Instruct the class to write down significant ideas,
concepts, phrases, etc. on the left-hand side of their paper. Students
should be instructed to be brief and use abbreviations as needed. Notes
should be recorded in sequential order.
- Elaborate in small groups. After viewing the video, have the students get
into groups to elaborate on their individual notes. Here, they can recall
details, extend ideas, add personal anecdotes, etc. Then they record this
information on the right hand side of their forms.
- Synthesize with Whole Class. Tell the students to contribute what they
learned from their group recollections and then record their responses on
the board, chart paper, or transparency. This information can then be
reorganized as a map, chart, or in outline form if appropriate.
Wood, K.D. (1994) Practical strategies for improving instruction.
Columbus, OH: National Middle School Association.
Sample
Collaborative Listening and Viewing Guide
from Instructional Strategies for
Engaging Learners
Guilford County Schools TF, 2002
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