Study+Group+4


 * Study Group 4**
 * Overview**
 * Assessment**

Implementation
 * using web cams as self-assessment tool for reading fluency
 * rubrics for students to self-assess

Discussion
 * questions from Betty Garner allowing children to share their learning
 * What sense do you make of this?
 * What good questions can you think of?
 * What part do you know for sure? What part do you understand?
 * What do you notice?
 * What kind of pattern do you notice?
 * What do you wish was easier?
 * Why?
 * What did you understand the question to be?
 * If you were going to explain this to someone, how would you do it in your own words?
 * If you did know, what would you say? (Use this when students shrug their shoulders or respond 'I don't know' to a question.)
 * What changed?
 * What stayed the same?
 * Statements that encourage responses
 * Tell me in your own words what you understand.
 * Tell me more.
 * Help me understand.
 * You did it! You enjoy figuring things out!
 * Tell me what you see in your mind in connection with this.

Discussion
 * Technology**
 * reviewed technology articles (posted on the public drive)
 * Discussion revolved around uses of technology in our classrooms
 * 9-12 Blog www.meerlywords.blogspot.com
 * Room 19 student-created newsletter to parents
 * Room 19 video of 'What I am thankful for' filmed w/buddy classroom, Room 22 and presented by students
 * Room 16..Thinkfinity links for language and math lesson planning and student practice
 * Room 20 Thinkinity links for math practice (Turtle Pond)
 * Music...music and video clips to share composers w/students
 * introducing spread sheet software for managing data and exploring excel on their own
 * computer programs are fostering longer work cycles and extending duration of student focu

Implementation
 * Betty Garner**
 * classification and categorization: use attribute blocks and buttons asking children to sort in as many different ways as they could across program levels to notice developmental stages of this exercise
 * explored questions: 'What do you see? What do you notice? What's the same? What's different? etc'