Jennifer, Let me first congratulate you on jumping in to the lesson study process and thank you for your willingness to share the process with all of us! I agree--it is powerful professional development, often putting teacher reflection into hyper-gear. It will affect all of your lessons--not only the one you are working upon now.
>Having > taught this lesson before with struggling learners, I had realized that many > kids have trouble 'seeing' what happens in between each of the pictures. > They simply re-draw the images in the second picture. I had two wonderful > posts > here on this list that suggested I have the kids turn their backs and then > add a hat and funny glasses to a student and ask the kids to imagine what > happened while they turned their backs. I am so excited that the list was able to provide some ideas! It is like macro-micro lesson study! > I need to tell you all that this demonstration before reading helped a LOT > but I still had a few kids that were having trouble with this idea once we > went to the picture book...Tomorrow my colleague will reteach the lesson but > we are going to > SKIP a couple pages and ask the kids to visualize what happened in a "larger > moment of time." I look forward to hearing what happens as a result of your change! Please continue to share! >We also added a > visual diagram where we had the words Schema and Text clues funneling into a > person's head which has a video camera in it. The idea being that kids see a > visual of the idea that visualizing comes from background knowledge and the > text. Did you observe whether this visual helped with the lesson objectives in any way? > I have to tell you all, if you ever get the chance to engage in the lesson > study process, DO IT! It is a powerful way to collaborate with colleagues > and > I learn something important each time! Agreed! Bonita _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
