Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework, Wisconsin DPI

The GRR Instructional Framework of teaching and learning is able to be embedded with the tasks students complete in their Glose for Education classroom.  Not only can our Glose for Education app follow students in whichever learning setting is best for them, but it is also a high-quality educational tool when used in conjunction with lesson designing models such as the GRR Instructional Framework.

In-Person Learning

Glose for Education can be used in brick-and-mortar classrooms throughout all components of reading instruction.  Students are able to access and dive into personal reading books and class-wide novels on the electronic devices available in the classroom.  During the Focused Instruction portion of the GRR, teachers model how they use their literature on Glose to explore daily lesson topics and standards.  Students can follow along as the teacher projects their feed onto the smartboard and watch along as the teacher highlights and reacts to important parts of the text, using Glose’s embedded reading tools.  Teachers are able to walk through their annotations and model responses to explain the purpose behind the reading strategies to be learned by students.  

As teachers begin to release the cognitive load for students, the class can walk through another portion of the text together, with the teacher providing in-person checks for understanding to ensure students are able to begin working collaboratively.  Students can then be released to practice the strategy and skill with a partner, with the teacher in close proximity to quickly monitor for group or partner mastery.  Finally, students can engage in independent learning of the strategy using their online text by themselves while the teacher uses the data from independent practice to determine teaching effectiveness.

Fully Remote Learning

Glose for Education upholds high levels of learning when students are in remote learning settings.  Teachers can continue to have high quality instruction, even if students are completely remote and are only available on videoconferencing.  Instead of watching face-to-face teacher Focused Instruction modeling, students can watch teachers live through webcam.  After students are involved in the focused instruction of reading strategies and skills, teachers can still incorporate the Guided Instruction.  If live on webcam, teachers can elicit student responses to walk through the specific skill or strategy.  If pre-recorded, teachers can have videos set up with prompts and appropriate pauses for students to answer to check their own understanding.  If, in a setting where a teacher isn’t available, teachers can have a quick CFU open on Glose for students to complete before moving into collaborative groups.

Collaborative groups are held on Glose for Education with student pairs or groups working together through a set of questions or reading segments of a shared text.  Teachers provide the groups with a set of questions or tasks and post those on the feed.  Students work together by highlighting parts of text that meet the standard of study they are working on, and can respond to each other via comments right into the margins of the text.  Finally, students practice the skills on their own by diving into the literature by themselves, and again, have learning assessed by the end of their independent practice time.

Hybrid Learning

Wherever students are learning, Glose follows them to meet their individual needs.  Students can use computers, laptops, ipads, and phones to access the app and learn authentically in all four phases of the GRR Instructional Framework.  As student learning environments shift this year and beyond, teachers won’t have to worry about switching up reading support tools.   Instead, this app supports students in all learning models- in class, at home, and hybrid.  So, when it is asked where are we learning today? Students can always respond “on Glose for Education!”