Wednesday, July 11th Logging

July 11, 2007 Logging

First reading: The Missing Piece
-belonging (it’s important to students to fit in)
-implementing a sense of belonging; creating a comfortable class
environment;
-the questioning activity is better than giving students a prompt; it
Becomes pertinent and empowers them to write.

Second reading: Wilfred Gordon
-memory jogger
-selecting an object to use as a writing prompt; great idea!
-hang small reminders on the wall to help students remember skill(s) until
it has been internalized.

Conferencing:
-very important to get good feedback; not just finding the errors on a
piece;
-write questions on the margin of paper for students to answer and help
them use more detail;
-Rome wasn’t built in a day. Our instructors gave us time to finish our
digital stories—while they were conferencing with students:
good classroom management.

Snapshot: detailed elaboration of previous piece on “getting to the heart of the
matter; it’s good to show and not tell;
-visualizing the writing.

That's all folks! It was an exciting day.