Thursday, October 14, 2010
Team Teach
What a fantastic day! I really think the lesson Mrs. Coursen and I have put together, really the unit as a whole, will be the best of my career. Today students read a primary source by William Bradford. Following their analysis and the completion of a graphic organizer detailing what they know as concrete fact, what they think they know through reasoning and any conclusions they feel they can draw. Students also are listing any data they lack that prevents them from making conclusions they want to make. They are now comparing social changes made by puritans in a time of distress with Marxist ideals. Tomorrow they will discuss and write as they analyze a new source they will receive. The ultimate goal of the unit is that Mrs. Coursen and I make ourselves unnecessary in students analysis of primary sources. In other words, students ought to be capable of analysis of sources without our guidance. I cannot elaborate more as students following the blog need to make discoveries themselves. Needless to say I am quite excited about the direction we are going.
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I have to say, I really hated today. There's too many people in the classroom, and I can't work properly. There were so many conversations going on, and I couldn't keep myself focused on the task.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I'm going to be able to do my best work in this environment, but I will try my hardest to.
hmmmm... fair enough, it really is the only way we can do it in both classes... we think the problem isnt the number of students but rather the fact that we were crammed into such a small room. Tomorrow we will be in the old FCS room. Rather than focusing on the environment, focus on the quality of the higher level thinking you are doing. We will work on the nature of the room. We plan to continue this for the next week so we have time to adapt to it and get it better. Remember this is the first time for the activity.
ReplyDeleteWhat bothered me the most about today (yesterday) was all the needless conversation! It was my first time in the room so I had to read the article, and there were 5 different conversations going on just in my vaccinity! It took me WAY to long to read, so I didn't get much done.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest problem really was people discussing what they were writting because that was their second period, with no respect for the first-timers.
GRR!
again, same issue as my prior comment, we need a larger venue and we didnt want to use the "LGI" In the school as it is really a gym and you cant hear anything anyone says... we are trying old fcs room if possible today.
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