SLICE OF LIFE: DAY 25/31
Yesterday I was in a fifth grade classroom. It is one I have worked in all year, so I know the kiddos there really well. In fact, that is one of my "try-it-out" classrooms. I try all my new ideas with those super students. Again yesterday that is what I was doing. We were working on persuasive writing.
I introduced my lesson by telling them what my Teaching Point was: TP-Writers write about things that bother or annoy them. They wrote it in their notebook as the lesson started. The link back to their work, after I modeled for them and they had a try with it with a partner, was to make their list of things that annoyed them. They were great.
Later that day, I was in the room with some visiting teachers from another grade level. I told them of my try with the Teaching Point...telling them and having them write it in the notebook. One of the students happened to still be in the room, so I asked Daniel: "What was the teaching point this morning in my lesson?" Daniel never hesitated..."Writers write about things that annoy them."
Today I was in another building, but I got an email from yesterday's classroom teacher. She said when she did her lesson the kiddos asked... "What is the Teaching Point, Mrs. G.?" I guess the GOT IT!!!
That's my Slice of Life for today!!!
These are the moments that bring big smiles to our faces.
ReplyDeleteI love it when the kids internalize it and then throw it back onto the teachers..makes me smile and realize that the kids really do bloom in a workshop environment. When we give them choice and leadership and trust them...they rise to the occasion!
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