March 3rd, 2015
I am so frustrated today. I was unaware--perhaps I am culpable for this--that the freshmen would be missing half of my first class today, so the lessons I had planned were not going to work, which is sad because we were supposed to start our new unit today. Then, I thought it would work out perfectly because I wouldn't have the sophomores tomorrow, but the freshmen did not miss the whole class period, so that did not work.
As a result, today became a day of improvisation. I reviewed the interrogatives with my students--which turned out to be a blessing in disguise because they were still confused about them. I started to realize that I went too in depth on the interrogatives, which I did not need to do because it confused them. This caused for a discussion with la vieja. She and I talked boat making the goals--no more than 2--and placing them alongside the class schedule for the day. That way the students know what is expected of them. I also have to reference these goals each day throughout the lesson. Not bad!
So, today we reviewed with traditional note taking and an activity where the students had a question and the answer to a question on a sheet of paper. They had to answer a question posed by another student and then read the question that they had to pose. I was so proud! They did much better.
We also had staff meeting today at which two visitors from DCAS came to talk about anonymous class observations to develop better teaching strategies. An example could be student engagement; 3-4 teachers would enter the room and observe ONLY for student engagement. The name of the teacher whom they observed would never be revealed and the data from all teachers in the school would be revealed. I think this could be really great! Hopefully this can be executed at MHS.
Cambio y corto,
El joven
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