Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Blog post for week of 3/28-4/1
I hope that everyone is making progress with their inquiry plans- I want to update on my progress! I am videoing this week and I taught my first lesson of two for the plan- I am teaching fractions and today was the "desk lesson" - students at their desk and me at the board. The students were identifying and drawing (on their own packets) fractions as I taught and reviewed what 1/3, 1/2, etc... looks like. We also went over common mistakes in identification and labeling fractions. I must say that they were very well behaved- I have a great class this year and I didn't expect anything different. But, I also noticed that once they say the video camera, they were good as gold. I would say that they majority of the time the students were on task and engaged. I will be interested to see when I watch back to look at the percent of engagement and active learning or engagement. I am also curious to see how much more or less they will be engaged by the "hands on lesson" tomorrow- I will let you know how it goes!
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You are right- I have noticed that kids really do "turn it on" for the camera- which is usually a good thing. If we had longer I would suggest videoing a couple of things so the kids get used to it and start to acclimate- but it is a fine slice of behavior for this project. Also it is great to watch this video and also compare it to your notes and feelings about the activity. I hope that tomorrow goes well too.
ReplyDeleteThat is great they were on task! I find the video camera does cause them to be really good! Mine kept staring right into it as I was taking video of their think pair share! :) Hope the other went went well too!
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