Question Answers

1. What is the number and name of the literacy strategy you have chosen?

Think Aloud - #3

2. While conducting research, identify the most important insights you learned (beyond the description in the Google Doc - Literacy Strategies @ TJ).

That students should have the teacher model the strategy for them, and allow them then to work together to develop their own way to think about a different situation.

3. What insights have you gained about this strategy by talking to other group members?

The ways in which they incorporate this idea and how they have found it successful.

4. Which course and period did you first implement this literacy strategy? Explain why.

Geometry - 1st period. They are a good class that works well together and I thought that would be a good way to see how this strategy went in a class.

5. What did you learn during this first implementation about the strategy, your students, your instruction?

I learned that modeling the strategy is helpful. The students appreciate having something to see and understand before trying it on their own. The students also enjoyed working together and trying to understand a new concept with one another.

6. What did you learn when you saw another teacher implementing this strategy?

Was unable to see another teacher.

7. What did you learn from the feedback supplied to you by another teacher when they observed your implementation of this strategy?

Everyone had class while I was trying my strategy.

8. How did you change your thinking and/or implementation of this strategy based on your observation(s), feedback you received, and your experience implementing?

I tried to make my modeling and the directions a little more specific and I gave them more questions to think about/use while working together.

9. Do you anticipate using this strategy again? Explain your response.

Yes, this is a strategy that I will use frequently.

10. What questions, concerns, observations, insights do you want to address with your group members on Nov. 7th?

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