Wow, Dana Coteaching with Ellin! A dream come true. Are you willing to share a little more about what you learned? Go ahead and "go on and on!" I think we would all love to learn from your experience! Slowing down...yes... a goal for me too. A tough one though. I have to really internalize Ellin's list of what is essential so I can make the time to do that. I also think that I have to live and teach her list of what is essential for a year or so to determine if this list works for me too! When you work with striving readers and it takes even longer for them to 'get' some things. I wonder if this list of what is essential can be narrowed even further for me in the reading specialists role... Jennifer Jennifer In a message dated 7/21/2008 8:27:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I agree, Jennifer. I think keeping track of what it looks like in our classroom when we understand is a great idea! I know during the first few weeks of school, we read some pretty powerful picture books. Making time for a discussion of what we feel and what we think after delving deep into a book would be great - and definitely recorded on a chart that we could return to as the year progresses. I don't know if we've discussed this on this listserve already, but I had the most amazing opportunity this year to co-teach a lesson with Ellin in my classroom. We had about 40 or 50 observers, and afterwards, most of the talk was about the wait time that Ellin uses. I could go on and on about this - but, in a nutshell, I know this is a key factor towards moving our kids towards deeper thinking. If we want our kids to dwell, to be fervent, to converse..... all of this takes time, right? So I know one of the biggest changes in my classroom this upcoming year will be to SLOW DOWN! I'll keep thinking about this, too. Can't wait to hear everyone's thoughts on what this may look like in your classrooms! Dana **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list Understand@literacyworkshop.org http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
