Category Archives: Next time

Next time

Last week’s ISW: I felt like my Lesson Basics theme sessions were not as strong as they could have been, and then felt like those aspects were lacking in my group’s mini-lessons. Could be anecdotal, but left me with a real motivation to have those theme sessions in good shape for my next ISW, and hopefully that will be reciprocated in the mini-lessons.

Next time

Having a meaningful feedback session online:
Enables individuals to think ahead of time how they want to give/receive feedback. We did that for our ISW and participants in the large group agreement session already discussed these points.
(This contribution is from Mabel!)

Next time

Having a shadow provides avenues for reflection about the whole process and this can be valuable for “mentors”.

I realized that I love having a shadow – it actually got me to constantly think about every step of the way and I think this last ISW has done more to get me to reflect on my practices than the last few combined. I actually never knew how helpful it would be to set aside 5-10 minutes after/during every activity of an ISW and talk about what is happening, how that went compared to the plan, what was the ideal outcome, what were the alternative lesson plans/activities we considered before deciding on this, why this was picked over others, and even how we decide on the small group compositions. It was like having a one-on-one feedback after each part of the ISW.