[Simtrainer-l] PIRATES Help

[tcockerham at gmail.com]

Hi Christine,
My students learn this strategy best with the CD because it provides
several videos of students modeling the strategy and provides memorization
drills. I also use Class Dojo's "random" feature...whichever student's name
it stops on, has to recite the strategy step. This usually keeps them on
their toes.

Hope this helps,
Teresa

Teresa Cockerham, Ed.S.
SIM Learning Strategies Professional Developer
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Christine Bouck via Simtrainer-l <
simtrainer-l at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Hello. I am in the process of teaching PIRATES to a group of 9th grade
> students in a pull-out special education class specifically for teaching
> study skills (they are in regular classes for their core subjects). We have
> been working on this strategy since Halloween and are still working on the
> controlled practice tests. I go over it and go over it and they just don't
> seem to be making any progress. I even had them create posters or Power
> Point projects describing the strategy and the reasons for using it. As I'm
> grading these projects I'm noticing that they really didn't put much effort
> into them, much like the CP tests. (In fact, I have difficulty motivating
> them to do much of anything but I digress.)
>
> PIRATES is always a longer strategy-more steps equals more time to teach
> it. But I've never encountered a group of students who were so reluctant to
> complete a strategy. Usually PIRATES is a favorite because of all the fun
> things you can do with the mnemonic and because it's so useful. Does anyone
> have any ideas as to something I can do to help excite my students or
> somehow get them on board? I've shown the results, shared personal stories
> of students I've known who've successfully used it, and even had one
> student in the class tell the others that he used one of the ACE guessing
> techniques on a test and it worked. I even bribed them with the promise of
> 2 days of a murder mystery game if they all finish the test before the end
> of the quarter. Nothing is working. Any help or advice would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks so much.
>
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