Tuesday, June 30, 2015

"What Do I do withh All of These Sticky Notes?!"

The hardest part about reading is remembering what I've read 
                                                                   Jessica, ninth grader 

The most nerve racking thing for students is when it comes to taking a test! I still to this day freak out when i have to take a test! There have been tests that U have taken that i did well on because of the teacher! There have been tests i failed because the teacher didn't prepare me well for the test! My teacher, Mr.Kravitz, was one of the bests teachers that i had in all of my school years! He told us what he expected us to know and what we needed to be prepared for the tests. Believe it or not i still remember the information that he taught the class!

Questions to Drive My Instruction 
  1. What do the strategies look like as a students thinking becomes more sophisticated? 
  2. How do strategies connect to real world learning, and how do students use the strategies outside my class? 
  3. How do i know when a student is ready to have a new strategy introduced? 
  4. How do these strategies connect to other strategies?  
This chapter in the book Do I Really have to Teach Reading? Gave some really good strategies and examples of assessments that can help teachersdriver their teaching. Some of these strategies are:

  • Starting Points; Goal setting and whole-class charts 
  • Conversation calendars
  • Deciding on how much assignments are worth 
  • Reading Response Labs 
  • Collecting Reading Response Logs 
  • File Folder collection of work samples 
  • Quick Conferences 
  • Testing what the students know
We still need to individualize our instruction according to each student in the class and make sure we aren't doing the same thing EVERYDAY because it will get boring to the students and they will begin to lose interest in the class. 
 
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6 comments:

  1. ovalleJune 30, 2015 at 4:46 PM

    I feel like the ninth grader. I read something and like 5 minutes after if I remember something is a miracle. I wish that all teachers could be more clear about what they want and yes to set goals. Conferences are an important part of progressing. I know that it takes time, but teachers should have conferences more often.

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  2. UnknownJune 30, 2015 at 9:30 PM

    I'm not sure if my last comment posted but I had mentioned that I hope I can relate real world into learning. I also like your title.

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  3. UnknownJuly 1, 2015 at 6:57 AM

    I think retention varies on a day-to-day, subject-by-subject basis. We retain more easily that with which we are engaged. If we're not engaged, had a bad day, or had just to much blogging, our ability to focus declines. Imagine what it's like for secondary students coping with hard to relate to subjects, maybe instructors, crabby administrators, fickle friends and raging hormones.

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  4. A Rant to be Proud OfJuly 1, 2015 at 2:39 PM

    I have never really noticed the disconnect between reading and comprehension until I started teaching. It is amazing how the two are hardly coincide together these days.

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  5. A Rant to be Proud OfJuly 1, 2015 at 2:39 PM

    I have never really noticed the disconnect between reading and comprehension until I started teaching. It is amazing how the two are hardly coincide together these days.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 6, 2015 at 1:16 PM

    You have to mix it up in the classroom. I know when you walk into the class and the teacher is teacher the same methods or their teaching with the same style everyday, students will loose interest.

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