hi Jennifer, When I did lesson study with math we had two goals in the lesson--so each time we did the lesson we looked for growth/change along the lines of the goals we had set. In our case the goals were: 1. students will persist through a problem (this we measured by timing how long various groups maintained interest and worked on the problem we had given--from our first lesson to the fourth time we did the lesson we saw students go from lasting under five minutes to lasting 20 minutes--so we knew our changes had worked). 2. Our other goal (content goal)was that students would flexibly move between fractions and decimals to attempt to find solutions to the problem. This we saw growth in too, but we changed and added more visual scaffolding to help them along, and a different order to what we presented, and that made the difference (I say we but it was only one teacher who taught--the rest just watched and recorded). We video recorded the lesson and some of what some students were saying, we also tried to take notes on the words of high and low students for ideas about what was happening during the lesson.
Sounds like you wanted to examine student words and comments for some idea of the level of thinking they were reaching-with the hope of hearing some higher level thinking about the text---so recording their words in a script seems an appropriate use of the observation teachers. How will you know if the changes you make to the lesson will make a difference the next time? Will you compare the words the next group says during the lesson with the words of the children from the first lesson to see if there is an increase in discussion beyond the literal level? Will you compare the post it notes too? :)Bonita > Our data collection was based on what the teacher asked us to look for. One > of us (me) scripted the responses of the weakest children in the class. The > other teacher scripted the top kids (enrichment) so we could see how both > ends of the spectrum were responding. The first graders had also, at the end > of the lesson, written on a post it about what they had learned about real > reading and it was neat to see what they had written! > Any ideas on data collection tools for next time? I teach the lesson > Wednesday and am thinking about what to ask my colleagues to look for! > Jennifer _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
