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5 thoughts on “Town Meetings”
I like this, unfortunately I don´t have other teachers who do CI here, but I can at least try the “meeting” as a class.
Leah you could do what Eric Spindler did of watching a video of a DPS teacher (videos link above) like Mark Mallaney and just talk about what behaviors your students see Mark’s students exhibit. We definitely saw this morning, as Zach explained to me after the session, that one of his students had an epiphany about how he sat impatiently in class as Zach “went too slow and repeated too much”. So it was worth the session right there. Then we did it in the p.m. (Linda and I only bc Zach had a planning period) and we got good self reflection discussion with those classes.
I had my students watch video clips of Eric and also of Mark Mallaney. They observed and noted all of the “right things” but this had no effect on their own actions. Some of them noted how much better the teachers were (ouch. thank you very little. yeah lets blame it all on the teacher but not look at what our own role is in the process). I am going to do it again but this time nest it into a whole class/lesson such as your meeting, including self-reflection and specific questions and goal setting around rule #2. Nobody knows how to do rule #2. Probably not anywhere in the building. So I may be really heading upstream with this.
I will talk about the collaborative meeting with my colleague. She is not exactly a CI teacher but we are definitely on the same page broadly /philosophically, especially re: respect and blurting so I will run it by her.
…nobody [in jen’s building] knows how to do rule #2….
Well then we’re not educated, because we don’t know how to talk to each other.
Jen, you’re such a NICE person. The students are being disrespectful. Taking advantage of this nice person. I can’t help but think this has a lot to do with their prior FL experiences. Traditional instruction has conditioned them to lash out, to not want to learn. In a way, it’s a healthy response to traditional instruction that is going to eat at your own self-esteem and that brings so little joy.
A couple years ago, I made a GoAnimate video that I showed to students so that they could observe a TPRS model class.
https://goanimate4schools.com/public_movie/01R-6b93PiUI
I’ve also shown bits from Blaine Ray demos.