In this series kick-off, Dr. Doug Fisher introduces the goals for participating educators and provides an overview of what’s to come. You’ll find out what to expect over the course of the series and start your deep dive into collaborative conversations.
Prepare for this active professional learning experience by creating a system for taking notes during the session, keeping a journal to reflect on your own classroom practices, and keep track of what you’ve learned so far
REFLECTION: COLLABORATIVE CONVERSATIONS
Over the course of this series, Doug Fisher will task you with an assignment each day. Sometimes the task will be a classroom task and other days it will be a reflection task. You can use this Professional Reflection Journal to record your reflections.
After viewing today’s video, reflect on the following:
This journal can be used to reflect on what you have learned as you develop strategies for engaging your students in collaborative conversations.
In collaborative learning, students are talking together, interacting with their peers and using academic language. For the next 30 days, we’ll focus on that aspect of instruction, getting students to talk to each other.
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Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 | Day 20 |
Day 21 | Day 22 | Day 23 | Day 24 | Day 25 |
Day 26 | Day 27 | Day 28 | Day 29 | Day 30 |