Episode 42 What is a Pivot Task?

In this episode, Dan explains what a pivot task is and how to use one.What is a Pivot Task? is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Join the Facebook CommunityVideo showhttps://youtu.be/hrYFYA6yiakShow notesIt is a pivot task because it has to be used by the teacher to pivot the lesson.should not take long… 5 minutes maxThey focus on knowledge not higher-order thinking skillsyou want to make it impossible for students to get the right answer for the wrong reasonsThe incorrect answers should be interpretableHow do you do this?ask open ended questionsget verbal answersask for a short demonstration of their understandingCrafting questionslist any misconceptions that are common for the contentwrite answers from the misconceptionwrite questions that will elicit the misconceptiongenerate the answers either for students to choose from or to help you interpret their answersExample 1 - The sound "A" makesMisconception is it makes 2 sounds, but it makes 5So, to identify this we might play various sounds and ask them to identify what sounds can be recorded using the letter “a”.The more correct the better the understanding of the coding processwe could ask how to spell “Talk” and how options such as “Tork”, “Talc”, “Tawk” and “Talk”Example 2 Energy Systemsmisconception is that the ATP/PC system is used first, then the lactic acid system and then the aerobic systemBUT, your body always uses the aerobic system and uses the other systems when they are neededask how the energy systems provide ATP in a football gameDo they tell me that it is one then the other? Do they tell me that the aerobic energy system doesn’t start until 3 min into the sport? ORDo they identify that the systems are all working, but which one provides the most ATP varies according to the intensityIt is very important that is pivot task is plannedThe answers to the task should change what happens for the rest of the lessonIf correct then you move onto higher order thinking activitiesIf not, go back and reteach it and help them, but in a different way. The pivot task should lead to differentiationLeave a comment below and tell me how you are going to pivot your students' learning