My take-aways this week were all about the students... tough to capture all the learning just through photos so I'll summarize a bit here...
* Personalizing programs (like Wonders) is so important! This week, I saw students acting out vocabulary, having collaborative conversations with partners, and making connections from the reading to their own lives.
* Students researched and presented information to their peers while peers gave specific and useful feedback using teacher created rubrics. The students in the audience also were tasked with collaborating to ask the presenters (high DOK) questions following the presentation.
* In many classrooms, I saw the managing of inappropriate student behaviors with firm, calm, redirection and appropriate, pre-discussed consequences.
* I felt intangible energy- the buzz of students and teachers learning and teaching together made my heart happy!
* Personalizing programs (like Wonders) is so important! This week, I saw students acting out vocabulary, having collaborative conversations with partners, and making connections from the reading to their own lives.
* Students researched and presented information to their peers while peers gave specific and useful feedback using teacher created rubrics. The students in the audience also were tasked with collaborating to ask the presenters (high DOK) questions following the presentation.
* In many classrooms, I saw the managing of inappropriate student behaviors with firm, calm, redirection and appropriate, pre-discussed consequences.
* I felt intangible energy- the buzz of students and teachers learning and teaching together made my heart happy!