Stop. Start. Continue. Results
Dave presented the results from our formative assessment and outlined our thoughts on them. You can find all of the ideas in each column here:
Teacher Inquiry is…
We asked you to consider the essential and non-essential elements of teacher inquiry using the article your Reading #3 article as a stimulus for your thinking.
The Coyote Project
In an effort to show you how an inquiry process might play out, I read The Coyote Project and asked you to use the strategy Thinking Bubbles as a during-reading activity. TB is a strategy I first discovered while reading Brownlie & Close’s Beyond Chalk & Talk. Beyond Chalk & Talk It’s a great book full of hands-on and minds-on collaborative learning strategies.
Susan Close describes the TB strategy this way:
“With this tool learners generate what they think a character is picturing, sensing, thinking, saying, feeling and noticing in thinking bubbles – revealing cartoon-like representations.”
Post-reading I asked you to add any other ideas to our list of essential characteristics. In the end, here’s what our list looked like (Thanks to Jerin for the photo – LH):
Upcoming Due Dates
- Wednesday, 2 November 2011 = Reading #3 Exit Slip
- Thursday, 3 November 2011 = EDUC 315 Day 3 Reflection
- Saturday, 5 November 2011 = Sims Entrance Slip
- Monday, 7 November 2011 = Microteaching Analysis
That’s all for today.
– LH