Reciprocal Reading

 Hello, 

This year I am part of the Class on Air Team for Manaiakalani.

My first Session is on Reciprocal Reading. I enjoy using this process for reading as students learn to dig deeper themselves regardless of what type of text they are reading. Click on an image to learn more.

In Reflection: I would like to have students taking more initiative to help drive the discussion about the learning. It was great to hear students reading aloud fluently. I can see I need to give more opportunities for students to run the reciprocal reading process.

Productive Struggle

 Reflection on Co-teaching in Maths

What will you take away from the co-teaching?

        How do we know it is half e.g. 9+9=18 - numbers are the same

        Think about the answers/anticipate student responses, to be mindful of misconceptions and what will         help direct and redirect students.

        Continue to pitch at level 4/5 and put in place just in time workshops.

What will you do differently next time?

Thinking from the beginning of the year:

• high expectations teaching
• acceleration vs remediation = planning, how can we make this less not more.
• key role of formative assessment - this leads to productive struggle!

Unproductive Struggle - weight lifting - too heavy or not heavy enough 

Spotter - assess the struggle, and have their back if it is too much of a struggle for them

             

Productive Struggle is better than unproductive and looped with feedback gives us results.

Discuss and model with students - How to work in a group, helping students to get results with their learning. 

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Something to remember is - 

Better than formative assessment is monitoring feedback and scaffolding - Dylan William

What I want to know is how to get the discussion going to help students develop understanding rather than just telling the answer or what to think!