The last few weeks I have started thinking about each lesson as a challenge for the students. I pose the question in my mind how canI actively engage the student in this assignment. How can I make this task real, fun and interesting to them. I haven't found the magic question yet I am still dealing with the issues of the gr.5 being very young and having been taught quite differently than I teach. I am blogging now so that means things are moving forward and I am starting to win them over. I have a few students that are starting to drive their education. I have many students 1wanting to blog events on the school student blog site. The writing they are doing is beautiful. I do very little editing. They are taking great pride in doing a good job and I support them with giving them lots of time and trust.
Sir Ken Robinson once again has inspired me with one of his TED talks also one of my co-workers. A new person came on staff and immediately I felt judged negatively by him for what others were saying about me and what he perceived was excellence in teaching. He came to me the other day after sending me the link on the TED talk and made a complimentary statement about now seeing what I was trying to do with the children. He recognized that I was trying to inspire them to be independent learners and to be creative in their representation of their learning. His comments have inspired me further to not give up, it has been a hard fall trying to facilitate the children's learning when they want to be spoon fed.
I don't need a lot of affirmation but some helps!
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The Fall was HARD!
Well I am back! Back to blogging back to tweeting and maybe back to that great inquiry classroom of last June. I haven't been able to get back into the groove! Lots of reasons mainly - new class, still young, don't know my ways or my expectations. I am starting to see the light. It is Tuesday no parents in and time to tweet and catch up.
November was a great month! I did a workshop for the district on Flipping the class. Ended up with about 15 people and the Superintendent (he stayed for the whole thing) and lots of discussion. I made a video so I kind of flipped the workshop. The video made the workshop very easy for me because I hardly talked just answered questions. The course was set up on the moodle with lots of links examples and such. http://youtu.be/vvkn9LWWI-k
The math coordinator came into my class to watch the follow up to a flipped video. The children were wonderful about 13 of them actually watched the video she it was good for her to see how I handled the situation. This is exactly what I get too. http://youtu.be/6rCA_LNo0m8
Yesterday I did another workshop on Using the internet for a local school staff. Went very well with lots of questions and engagement. It was all set up through a course on the Moodle and organized so the staff can access it as a resource. http://www.mindmeister.com/91990859/the-day
November was a great month! I did a workshop for the district on Flipping the class. Ended up with about 15 people and the Superintendent (he stayed for the whole thing) and lots of discussion. I made a video so I kind of flipped the workshop. The video made the workshop very easy for me because I hardly talked just answered questions. The course was set up on the moodle with lots of links examples and such. http://youtu.be/vvkn9LWWI-k
The math coordinator came into my class to watch the follow up to a flipped video. The children were wonderful about 13 of them actually watched the video she it was good for her to see how I handled the situation. This is exactly what I get too. http://youtu.be/6rCA_LNo0m8
Yesterday I did another workshop on Using the internet for a local school staff. Went very well with lots of questions and engagement. It was all set up through a course on the Moodle and organized so the staff can access it as a resource. http://www.mindmeister.com/91990859/the-day
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