Last year, I scheduled my workshops by the week, not by the day. We use Standards Plus (overdone, but not the worst I've used), so I do it on Mondays and Tuesdays. I only got as far as I could in 10 minutes per day (5 minutes for each day). I had a kid keep the timer. That worked most of the time. I always tried not to teach from those daily things. I watched the kids. If the skill was new, I taught it as a mini-lesson. I felt they are disconnected things we had to do. I wasn't spending one minute more than the 5 minutes per day on them. Kim
On 7/24/07, Keith Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gosh, in my visits to school I'd have to say that I think most teachers > spend too much time on "dailies" (DOL, MUG Shots, etc.). Some that I've > seen > are so involved and convoluted that it takes close to 15 minutes to get > through. So I'd have to say the main culprit in this is probably not the > teacher, but some sort of mandated buy-in to a scripted program. > > I think I've mentioned on this list that I'm big on teamwork. So in my > classroom kids would work with their group on the "daily". I always did my > own content because I could tailor it to the problems I was seeing and > also > so I could make them short and to the point. So for the week I'd let them > know that we were working on "restrictive appositives" or "dependent > clauses" and how these are important to good writing. > > So we'd have small examples for them to fix at start of class. On Friday I > have them write at least one sentence with the focused used incorrectly > and > one correctly. I'm not sure how/where I picked up the incorrect strategy, > but I really liked it. Also I might ask them to explain why 8th graders > might have trouble with the concept/focus issue. > > I worry about scripted programs that are done "in order". You know if it's > February we're working on helping verbs. This is were Math people do a > much > better job as the "Math Minute" is almost always related to the concepts > currently being worked on in class. > > In terms of dailies - > *less is more > *it has to relate - misuse, projects, genres that we work on, etc. > *get kids talking about it > *if they can explain how to do it wrong, they will probably know how to > do it right. > > Keith Mack > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > -- Kim ------- Kimberlee Hannan Department Chair Sequoia Middle School Fresno, California 93702 Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, let go of what you can't change, kiss slowly, play hard, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything, have no regrets.. Life's too short to be anything but happy. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
