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Explain, in your own words, what “processing activities” are and how they contribute to a coherent curriculum.
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Processing activities are when the student stops and thinks about what they are learning. This can be accomplished through asking question to the student to get their ideas on why something occurred or how could we have a different out come. Giving the student time to process all the material contributes to the student understanding the information being taught.
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Processing activities are designed to help students absorb information from a lesson through evaluating, reviewing and revising. Information is presented in a way that evokes thinking and processing of that thinking. Often times it brings about new questions that are used to gain further perspective.
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Processing activities are activities that allow students to reflect, review, and revisit information they have learned in the past. This contributes to a coherent curriculum by allowing for students to have a deeper understanding of a past concept once they have more information to use.
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Processing activities allow the students to thimk about the topic they have learned. It also gives students the opportunity to revisit and debrief information learned either in the unit or chapter.
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Processing activities are part of a spiraled curriculum. This sort of curriculum allows students time between encountering learning and reviewing it and revisiting it once again. This margin gives time for our brains to assimilate these ideas into what they currently know.
