Thursday, March 17, 2016

Using Rubrics

Here's a blog post from Schoology about using rubrics... not necessarily for National Board... just helping you see that there are many great resources out there.

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Component 3: Good Ideas from Your Mentors

The mentors had a discussion about, well... discussion.  Specifically about the classroom discourse that is the focal point of Component 3, where you demonstrate how you facilitate classroom discourse in the teaching of your content.  They suggested a more structured approach and thinking about strategies---because without carefully crafting our lesson, what we envision as discussion can quickly become teacher-centered talk or even lecture when the students in our classrooms take the easy way out and we allow them to wear us down!  The way to avoid doing all the work in the classroom is to use our strategies.

Here is a link to a great article and podcast.  I love what Jennifer Gonzales says about her advice to student teachers who wrote "Discussion" in their lesson plans. As a host teacher to student teachers, I often said the same thing.  Then why do I often forget about it when I  teach?  :-)