So now will we examine our understanding/thinking AS WE THINK -- just as we thought in a parallel manner when we ourselves were visualizing, synthesizing, etcetera in our own reading immediately after Mosaic? Will we then, through the process, come to understand understanding? That's why To Understand, which standing on the shoulders of Mosaic, is a quantum leap forward. I knew early on when I read To Understand the first time that this was a book that I was going to need to peel through layers and layers across multiple readings in order to begin to comprehend.
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Date: Wed, 9 > Apr 2008 08:22:22 -0400> Subject: Re: [Understand] Understand Digest, Lesson > study> > > Bonita> I would agree that the planning and the debriefing is > where the learning occurs but also in the private reflection time afterwards. > Once the conversation has ended, the hours afterward, when I have to digest > what I have learned, when I am preparing mentally for teaching the next > round...the learning strengthens. I have to say that originally we were > trying to design the 'perfect' comprehension lessons. We got some pretty > decent lessons, but that would be selling the process short. There is so much > about teaching and learning that I learned that I take with me to EVERY > lesson I teach. So, to me, it was about the process...talking about the most > minute moments in an individual lesson and what the impact of it was on kids, > that helped take my teaching and move it forward. It is about striving to > UNDERSTAND the teaching and learning process and there is much value in the > struggle.> > Jennifer Palmer> Reading Specialist, National Board Certified > Teacher> FLES- Lead the discovery, Live the learning, Love the adventure.> > Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge. It is > thinking> that makes what we read ours. -John Locke> > > > > > From: Bonita > DeAmicis> Sent: Tue 4/8/2008 11:39 PM> To: [email protected]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Understand] Understand Digest, Lesson > study> > > Dana,> > Lesson Study observers focus on what it is the group > decides would be good evidence for their lesson goals. A lesson is so > multidimensional that it would be useless to try to focus on everything. So > you decide what your lesson is meant to influence then focus on evidence that > would show your influence had impact. The focus is usually with the students > and what they are doing, saying, showing... For instance, in my math lesson > study we wanted students to discourse on the math we had presented and we > wanted to hear "flexiblity" as in movement between math languages like > fraction language, decimal language, percent, or money language all used > interchangeably to examine the math concept. So the observers listened to an > assigned pair of students (different pair each observer) and recorded their > conversation. For each replay of the lesson we were trying to increase this > language and increase student persistence on a given problem (a content and a > behavior goal). So we had three observers on student language and one timer > observer. That way the data could be (hopefully) influenced on future lesson > attempts. I believe in Jennifer's lesson the focus was on the student > dialogue also--but they were listening for student questioning. You > definitely debrief--as soon after as possible. And you definitely do it again > and again. A typical study goes for three to four repeats aiming for lesson > improvement each time (improvement on the specific goal). I would be happy to > share more with you off list, just email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just so you > know, Japanese and American teachers agree that the biggest learning is in > the teacher dialogue before and after lessons. It is a fascinating process. > Very intense.> > :)Bonita> > > > _______________________________________________> Understand mailing list> > [email protected]> > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org> > _______________________________________________> Understand mailing list> > [email protected]> > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org _________________________________________________________________ Get in touch in an instant. Get Windows Live Messenger now. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_getintouch_042008 _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list [email protected] http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
