DATE 0909 DR. BRYAN A. BROWN

C&ICOGNITIVE APPRENTICESHIP

Cognitive Apprenticeship

• Built on the premise that apprentices learn through embed activity.•Provides an authentic relationship between students’ experiences and the concepts they are learning.• An apprenticeship of the mind teaches key ideas through problem-based/scenario based instruction.

STEP 1: Establish a Problem• Start your lesson by grounding the key concept in a problem that is pertinent to their lives.• This issue or problem must be connected to a tangible issue or concern

STEP 2: Model

• Engage students in an activity that enable them to do something to experience the concept.• Identify misconceptions and engage in a teacher-assisted set of learning activities

STEP 3: Coach

• Engage students in learning activities that are student-centered. • These activities are opportunities to experience, analyze, and discover the phenomenon with the teacher as the assistant

STEP 4: Fade

• Engage students in assessment activities where they explain, contrast, and analyze the concept.• Create authentic assessment activities that are free from the teacher’s assistance.

The Power of a Question

What do you say to a student who makes the comment, "I know how to do it.  I just don't know how to say it."  When I think about explanations, the power is that crafting opportunities for organizing and self-assessing your thoughts. Other benefits include: a) the idea that students often worry that they will “come off as “all knowing.” b) telling the students that their feelings/thought are wrong is not empowering.