Expectations high.....check
Make every day count....check
Bond with students .... check
Gradually hand over responsibility for learning .... check
Promote joy in learning .... BIG check! (I adore teaching and making the kids think learning is the coolest past time in the history of the universe!)
Monitor their learning .... half and half ... I stink at grading papers and keeping up with grades, but I get constant, immediate feedback as I observe them as to their achievement, frustration, success, distraction, etc.
This chapter was a nice summation of many different practices that I use. It was positive and didn't leave me feeling like a moron for not jumping on the latest and greatest bandwagon to pass by. Many of the suggestions in this chapter are common sense, salt of the Earth, good core teaching.
Favorite quote: "I am relaxed and happy when I am working with students, but I am also mindful of where I need to get them and how little time I have in which to do it." (I think Routman plagiarized that from me! :)
We will have to get on Routman for plagiarizing you!! ;-) I love that you are able to validate the wonderful things you are doing for your readers. Monitoring I think is always the struggle--I know it was for me. You mentioned a few weeks ago about wanting to learn about Google forms--I bet that would be a great tool we could use to help with the monitoring component!!
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ReplyDeleteI love the checklist structure you used for this chapter and how you took time to reflect on her suggestions and self-assess where you are with each o them. I love Melissa's suggestion for using google forms as a monitoring tool. I love a checklist for monitoring with a space for open comments. You can do this on a paper copy of a Microsoft word document or a google doc that correlates data on a spreadsheet for you. Thanks, Dawn