I have been working on my goal of posting and verbalizing content and language objectives during our literacy block. I have found it easier to write down the objectives for our comprehension units than phonics and grammar. I am still verbalizing the objectives during phonics and grammar, but I am working on writing them down as well so I have them ready for next year to just pull out of my files.
I am also posting the essential questions for first grade by our morning meeting area. I go over the essential questions of the day for reader's, writer's and math workshop as well as our phonics. I am working on completing health, social studies and science.
One thing I am finding is that it is difficult to fit the objective on one sentence strip. My next step will be to start with the essential question in one color, then the content objective in another, and the language objective in another color. In this way it will be easier for me to write and easier for the students to follow.
I have been hanging the objectives from my easel so they are ready to go for the lesson.
Let me know if you have any strategies to make this more manageable and user friendly.
Wow, you have put alot of time and effort into posting goals/objectives/essential ?'s! I like how you find/make the time to go over them each day, as I have had a hard time to always remember then before every lesson. I do think it's harder in elementary school, where we may teach 6-7 different lessons in one day, thus making it challenging to always have those objectives changing. I like how you added pictures, nice work! Do you see the students benefiting after all the posting and discussing you're doing with them?
ReplyDeleteI would say that posting the objectives is more for me than the students, because it is a way to remind myself what we need to get out of this lesson. However, I believe it also gives the students a reminder of what they should be focusing on. For example, I will read the objective at the beginning and at the end I will do a quick share and assess whether or not we met that objective. Today we talked about how readers ask questions that can be answered. The goal was to find the answers to the questions we came up with together. I modeled what to do and let them help come up with the answers we found in the book. At the end I repeated the objective and asked if we found the answers to questions in the story and we had a discussion on why someone would want to find answers to a question. It is difficult to stay on top of, but it helps guide my instruction.
ReplyDeleteEmily I like your idea of putting the essential questions on a ring and hanging them. That way they are available and ready when you need them plus a reminder to read them. That would work in PE. I could have a ring for each grade and the questions for each unit on the ring. Thanks for the idea!
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