When creating one-pagers, artistic students tend to feature more sketches, doodles, icons and lettering. Knowing they need two quotations, several symbolic images, one key theme, etc., helps guide students in their work. Many teachers create lists of what students should put inside their one-pagers. You’d be amazed at how much can fit on a single piece of paper. They might use their one-pagers to make connections to their own lives, to art or films, to pop culture, to what they’re learning in their other classes. Students might include quotations, ideas, images, analysis, key names and dates, and more. So, assuming you’re sold on trying this out, you’re probably wondering what exactly goes into a one-pager? Students tend to surprise themselves with what they come up with, and their work makes for powerful displays of learning. Plus, one-pagers provide variety, a way for them to share what they’ve learned that goes beyond the usual written options. Students will remember more when they’ve mixed language and imagery. The combination of the two leads to the most powerful results. According to Allan Paivio’s dual coding theory, the brain has two ways of processing: the visual and the verbal. AVID first developed this strategy, but now it’s widely used in and out of AVID classrooms.īut why is this seemingly simple assignment so powerful?Īs students create one-pagers, the information they put down becomes more memorable to them as they mix images and information. Students take what they’ve learned-from a history textbook, a novel, a poem, a podcast, a Ted Talk, a guest speaker, a film-and put the highlights onto a single piece of paper. Let’s backtrack a bit and talk more about what a one-pager is. Sure, it’s great for super artistic students, we tend to think, but what about everyone else? One-pagers by the students of Gina Knight Hess, 6th Grade ELA, North Naples Middle Schoolīut it’s the very beauty of the models that get posted that can drive students and teachers away from the one-pager activity. The artistry students bring to representing their texts on a single piece of paper, blending images and ideas in creative color, is almost hypnotizing for me. The one-pagers I see on Instagram draw me in like a slice of double chocolate mousse cake. Have you heard the whispers about one-pagers in the online teacher hallways? The concept of a one-pager, in which students share their most important takeaways on a single piece of blank paper, has really taken off recently. Sponsored by Chill Expeditions and Kiddom Listen to my interview with Betsy Potash ( transcript):
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