Present today: Susan Nygaard, Kari Greenan, Brianne Vigen, Miriam O'Brien, Johnathan Woodward, Nate Harsha, Brandon Neblett.
We talked about strategies we've tried lately and in past classes to improve the quality of discussions.
Talked for a while about giving a group grade for whole-class discussions, getting students to draw out reluctant speakers...the conversation was wide-ranging, so I won't try to reproduce it all here.
We decided to work individually during the next PLC session and blog about what we did.
Julie Ball does this in some of her 7th grade classes. She encourages student participation in class discussions by putting their name on the board when they comment on the topic at hand. However, she does not attach a grade at this age.
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