I respect that June is our down time but I have a new idea and would like to ask the opinion of the group on it, if it is worth starting. It’s a big project.
What if, starting in July, we set about to do some detailed and specific lesson planning together? It’s a vague idea, and I am not talking about writing plans to hand in to someone, but actually some plans that we can use but that were written by us as a group instead of us as individuals, if that makes sense.
I would like to start with 6th grade level 1 classes. The question is, what is a good plan, knowing all we know and have shared here over the years, for the first week or so of next year for 6th graders? We could decide on structures, activities, and see how it works.
As I write this I see that doing this by grade won’t work. We would just have to write plans per level. Otherwise it would get too complicated. And we would have to make it non-language specific.
Or is it better to leave things as they are, where we share ideas and then teach how we want? I personally would like a plan to follow. I would just make a category like: Lesson Plans, Level 1 and then we could do that and then make some for level 2. We would have to have one final posted version of an agreed upon plan for one week at a time, like Week 1, Week 2, etc.
I guess you could call this common planning. We plan together, using the comment fields below to hash it all out per day, then do it for the second week and on through the year. We could check in with each other during the week if we are freaking out, or to ask specific questions, etc.
OK that’s my not very-well-formulated question. Any reactions or ideas?