I really think my classes in WH are going well today! I would like to see more students taking on increasingly difficult academic challenges... on the bright side I think its starting to come together, people seem to be reading and understanding a college level academic journal article. They are applying reading strategies and putting together content from multiple sources. They are being provided the most complex sources I have ever had to offer and are doing he work quite well. By the end of the week they should be in really great shape!
Geo- Well, pd 10 and 11 are very different classes. 10 seems to have, on the whole, a great deal less background knowledge regarding social studies. Thats fine, we can start in different places but will end up fulfilling our standards nonetheless.
Well, class pd 10 was successful, I tried a few new strategies:
ReplyDeleteIve never used a seating chart before but they seemed to need the structure and it seemed to help. They did a decent job working with an historical map i presented them with. pd 11 also did nicely, they seem to be having fun and learning quite well.