His reply, "Yeah and now that there's 'Crash Course' I can kind of be one and not to geek out or anything but I am totally living my teacher dream!"
I love that John Green has a teacher dream. I am totally living one of my teacher dreams this week. To get ready for day two in Linda Rief's classroom, I thought I'd blog a few questions, call it my own version of "Question Tuesday."
Here's a list from my journal that I started yesterday:
Do you test? or quiz?
Are students always working on a variety of genres in writing at any 1 time?
Do you track students' independent work with a status of the class?
Do students have a common language--vocabulary: academic vocabulary or readers'/writers' vocabulary?
As you can see in the picture, I jotted a few answers down yesterday as Linda and I talked. I'm looking forward to more conversation today.
Today is writing conferences. I'm already wondering:
How do you schedule conference time?
What happens if another student or group has a question while you're conferencing?
What systems do you use to track conference conversations?
Questions abound! And I'm off to discover answers. Have a great Tuesday.
okay...so I'm very envious...how did you get this opportunity?
ReplyDeleteHere is my question...obviously required reading not a requirement??? It seems there is more freedom in middle school...just that for right now...having been thinking of work arounds...if kids are doing self-selected reading...lit circles of required reading titles when they are ready??
ReplyDeleteWe had a good conversation about whole-class works yesterday during lunch. There is indeed a bit more freedom in middle school and as Linda has reminded me more than once, a teacher can do much different things with 75 students per day (as compared to our 140-150). Bottom line? Whole class works have a place and have value.
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