6 of us observed two teachers in a grade 3 class today. Melissa and Jenn job share and keep each other very well informed so that students consistently have a routine for literacy and math. They make notes during each time at the table so that the other teacher knows what has been covered. Both teachers get to see all groups during the week. Their lessons are about 20 min long which helps keep behavior down and students are on task.
We had a large collection of teachers gather and watch Amy Simcox in her grade 7 class at 100 Mile elementary. It was great to see how she use the same style of rotations as the daily 5. Students were in fairly large groups and the games were in the back room called the 'library' which helped for volume. Amy is finding many ways to engage her busy grade 7 class and the teachers observing had a few suggestions for class management. See pictures below 7 teachers gathered to watch an engaging lesson at PSO in Ms. Lori Meville's grade 12 class. Students had several sets of data and they had to collaborate and find out what types of graphs they would make without using their graphing calculators. I am adding a slide show in the high school tab section. Thank you Lori for sharing your class.
I had the opportunity to observe in two new teachers classrooms and they have shared some good ideas. One is a planning document that helps you organize each day. I have put it in the documents section for easy download its called 'mathrotationsplanning' thank you Amy. The other document is a graph from Melissa and Jenn. They have added to the back for students to create a pie graph ( the number of pie pieces correlates to the # of students) and compare. I placed the image of this in the graph section. ( Just got the originals to share, they are in the documents section now called; weekly_graph_observationspietally.docx and weekly graph portrait .
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