Archive for October, 2007
In chapter eight Daniels and Zemelman talk about independent reading workshop in content areas. One poin that was made and one that I agree with is students like having choices. They like being able to choose which books they read, and which topics to analyze. Does [...]
We started off the evening by going over the next three weeks homework. The assignments can be found on the course wiki. Most importantly, for next week we need to be familiar with Frankenstein. We will be meeting in the Cleary Auditorium for the first half of class. We also need to continue or regular [...]
Well as you have all heard or maybe you haven’t but the Red Sux, I mean Sox and the Rockies are in the World Series. Let’s go rockies! I found an interesting article today in the New York Times about the Rockies. Their general [...]
Tuesday
The first thing that we did was work on our Frayer Method worksheets because we didn’t have time the class period before to do so because we were having such a good conversation about other things. Each group then had to decide on a word from the readings that they wanted to discuss, as in [...]
We started class by discussing the Frayer models of vocab with our words in the middle that represent our diagrams from last weeks readings. Each group presented their word’s definition, examples, and characteristics. It was interesting to see that even though we all had the same readings, each group came up with very different words [...]
Today in class we first started out presenting our Frayer model with the chosen words we choose from last week. This was a very helpful insight into Teacher Man in that it expresses all the things that are involved with being a teacher. Their are so many things to think about when approaching a classroom. [...]
I am sorry for this blog being a little late. I have been having trouble finding a way how to write on the class blog as opposed to my personal blog, but now I think I have finally figured it out.
On Tuesday, October 2, the class went down to L100 in the Library for [...]
Throughout this past week in class we have explored and presented ideas of strategies and resources we can use for our future classrooms.
Thursday 8/4: We completed our group research in Lavery Library and online in search of existing resources that would excite students when learning about ”boring topics.” I know we all were amazed at some of the unique [...]
In class today we first began by finishing the text scavenger hunt presentations. After finishing the last two groups, we discussed what kind of listening strategies we used while listening to the Diane Rehm podcast. The list consisted of playing solitaire, writing notes, browsing facebook, folding laundry, rewinding to main points, and visualizing the story.
We [...]
Today’s class began with the content groups finishing up their Text Set Scavenger Hunt presentations. Each group explained their various texts and how they relate to their proposed topic and question. After this excercise, we discussed our reactions to the podcast between Brown and Kozol. Specifically, we discussed our individual methods of focusing on the [...]
