Another afternoon of new information to digest. The word “crystallize” stands out in my mind. The transactional theory, literature response logs, character journals, graffiti board, sketch journals, etc. are excellent tools to get students involved with the reading. I now believe that we should take some time to invite readers’ responses, have information digested, and share or discuss the topic. This can happen in any content, even math. I will use these methods as a form of formative assessment in my classroom.
The methods will be very useful to us :)
ReplyDeleteYes, we learned a lot of useful strategies to use in our classroom :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for such a wonderful birthday wish!! back to the blog at hand, I too agree that we need to take more time to reflect and to help the information crystallize into the students' mind. But I do think these are some wonderful strategies of ways that we can help that to happen.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Birthday Greeting, Evelyn. Yes, Dr. Rivera has armed us many useful tools to utilize in the battle zone, er, classrooms. I enjoy many f them & intend to use all of them!!
ReplyDeleteHi there Ev...yes,all of these wonderful tools will come in handy as we forge on to our final destiny...SECONDARY MATH TEACHERS...HOORAY!Thanks for the Birthday wish,you're a great friend and classmate.
ReplyDeleteWow! Crystallize. That is a good word to describe today's lesson. All these methods help our students crystallize what they are learning.
ReplyDeleteI love the fact that we learn things here that we can use in class.
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