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Guided Apprenticeship toward Independent Practice

Throughout grades 3-5, students expand their repertoire of tools and strategies for learning. With supportive instruction and gains in complex cognitive capacity, they begin to access and utilize appropriate strategies in varied learning situations. Students practice skills with greater efficiency and accuracy, approaching learning with increased sophistication and independence.


 * __Expressions / Examples__**

//1) Metacognition// Students begin to develop an awareness of the ways in which they process information; they think about thinking more strategically. This is demonstrated as students shift from external self talk to internal thought as they organize and regulate their thinking. *

//2) Skills// Grades 3-5 mark a gradual shift from an acquisition of skills toward application as students build on prior knowledge, making connections to new learning.

//3) Responsibility of Learning// Students expand their awareness of individual responsibility in the learning process, becoming active agents in their own learning. They also become engaged and productive members of a learning community.


 * __How Do We Teach__**

· Gradual Release of Responsibility Model (Pearson & Gallagher) · Zone of Proximal Development & sociocultural perspective (Vygotsky) · metacognitive strategies · workshop approach · skills instruction · project-based learning


 * Vygotsky’s concept of inner speech