Please, fellow educators, review and comment below on my performance last week. What a king lesson did you like? What didn't work? Any suggestions? And what do you think you learned from practicing alongside me as the "'student"?
Hey Bill! I really really loved your lesson. I thought it was a great topic for Direct Instruction, and you pulled it all together really well! You made effective use of different materials and really got your lesson on six-word stories across with some great examples. Also, I love how you had us connect our own stories to our hobbies--students tend to be more engaged when they get to talk about things that interested them, so that was a great call on your part. Your teacher voice was great and you made great use of time. Overall, well done! My only critique would be to use that space that's available to you. Then again, considering the space that was available to us, that may not be a problem in the future.
First off, I loved the idea of your lesson, as an English major, I think I may steal if you so allow. :) I actually had never seen a lesson presented like that, in which you need to limit what we write, but I think it's important because it allow students to flesh out the good from the bad and teach them to avoid wordiness. I like that you allowed the students to take the reins and write about what they wanted with, rather them having them write about something they weren't interested in. Your presence was very well, engaging and humorous. I would agree with Emily on the space, but of course we were in small with only a few students. Overall, it was a very good lesson that incorporates students interests well. We focus so much on writing about literature as opposed to letting students free write on their own, the fact that you see the importance of creativity is great!
Repost: I liked your lesson. One criticism I have, if I am remembering correctly, was that the group part of direct instruction was maybe neglected some. That said, creating even a 50 word story as a group would be very time consuming task for students, so it was probably a good use of time to minimize the group aspect. One other thing, which again may be a failure of my memory, was that I do not clearly remember you stating the goal creating the fifty word and 6 word stories were. I understood that the goal was for students to be concise and discriminatory with the words they use when creating a story (very Vonnegut), so mission accomplished anyway. Creating the stories is obviously high on Bloom's Taxonomy so great job there. I also wanted to commend you for giving yourself something to do while your students created their fifty word stories. It not only kept you from interfering with the students, but also by creating your own story it allowed you to have a discussion more as a group of writers than as teacher to student.
Hey Bill! I really really loved your lesson. I thought it was a great topic for Direct Instruction, and you pulled it all together really well! You made effective use of different materials and really got your lesson on six-word stories across with some great examples. Also, I love how you had us connect our own stories to our hobbies--students tend to be more engaged when they get to talk about things that interested them, so that was a great call on your part. Your teacher voice was great and you made great use of time. Overall, well done!
ReplyDeleteMy only critique would be to use that space that's available to you. Then again, considering the space that was available to us, that may not be a problem in the future.
First off, I loved the idea of your lesson, as an English major, I think I may steal if you so allow. :) I actually had never seen a lesson presented like that, in which you need to limit what we write, but I think it's important because it allow students to flesh out the good from the bad and teach them to avoid wordiness. I like that you allowed the students to take the reins and write about what they wanted with, rather them having them write about something they weren't interested in. Your presence was very well, engaging and humorous.
ReplyDeleteI would agree with Emily on the space, but of course we were in small with only a few students. Overall, it was a very good lesson that incorporates students interests well. We focus so much on writing about literature as opposed to letting students free write on their own, the fact that you see the importance of creativity is great!
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ReplyDeleteI liked your lesson. One criticism I have, if I am remembering correctly, was that the group part of direct instruction was maybe neglected some. That said, creating even a 50 word story as a group would be very time consuming task for students, so it was probably a good use of time to minimize the group aspect. One other thing, which again may be a failure of my memory, was that I do not clearly remember you stating the goal creating the fifty word and 6 word stories were. I understood that the goal was for students to be concise and discriminatory with the words they use when creating a story (very Vonnegut), so mission accomplished anyway.
Creating the stories is obviously high on Bloom's Taxonomy so great job there. I also wanted to commend you for giving yourself something to do while your students created their fifty word stories. It not only kept you from interfering with the students, but also by creating your own story it allowed you to have a discussion more as a group of writers than as teacher to student.