Student BloggingThis week, I picked up and tried out a new idea from one of my colleagues: student blogging. They aren't technically writing blog posts, but they are utilizing the blog I have already set up for my classroom to share their ideas on the web! So far, I have only used it for a brief reflection exercise yesterday after our parachute experiment. But I am planning on trying it out for morning work, fast finishers, and other various reflection exercises during this last week of summer camp. I am also planning to use it during the regular school year :) Check it out here: http://msgopez.weebly.com/summer-camp-blog |
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*UPDATE: I want to add that at the end of each school day for the first 3 days, I changed student's seats around completely. This helped me to get to know them and observe where and with whom they work best. After 3 days, I put together a more permanent seating arrangement. Every now and then I still switch around students based on behavior, level of cooperation with surrounding peers, and ability (based on informal assessments). In a table of 4, I prefer to have two "low-medium" students sitting in front of each other, with a "medium-high" student next to each of them. This way, student A who might be low/medium will have a companion who is medium/high as their shoulder partner, and a companion who is closer to their ability level as their face partner. Having these seats pre-arranged makes it VERY easy to do activities such as jigsaws when I want to have homogenous groups and heterogenous groups. If all of my low/medium students are already sitting at all of the desks labeled as "2's" and "4's" then it's easy to identify them and put them in the same expert groups for a jigsaw. Likewise for my medium/high students.
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