planning

8/29/2013

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5 Comments

Tim

10/7/2013 13:44:18

The video of the flash-mob dancing in the Belgium train station seemed good. The students were able to identify some of the planning that would have gone into creating the seemingly 'spontaneous' event.

I struggled with helping the students identify how planning impacts the class, as this ALG 2 class is structured for them. We don't have homework; I will have to give this some thought.

The way the rubric reads, they will evaluate their planning every day, but I need to develop a clearer idea of what they would be evaluating.

I am going to sit down with each student tomorrow to go over their plan for the week as well as their plan for each day.

Jeff

10/8/2013 11:52:09

I thought the lesson on Monday went well and the students were successful at identifying the parts of a good plan. On day 2 I am having students revisit their weekly goal/plan and finding that many set goals that were too short-sighted. They were asked to improve the plan accordingly. I do alot of the planning for them in class so I had them focus on a behavior plan or a plan for how much work they will accomplish by the end of the week. At the end of the week I'll do individual conferences to review self-evaluations to make sure they're still doing them well (I think as we add more columns they may start to take the older ones less seriously).

Tim

10/8/2013 13:07:50

In going through the Student Learning Logs, I found that the plans that the students wrote were too vague to be useful or dealt with things outside of class. I don't think I was clear enough in the lesson. Their statements were more goals than plans. I think I will go for more daily planning, but what would be a good daily plan for students who are already highly successful?

Jeff

10/10/2013 10:45:54

Maybe the more successful students could focus on potential problems and how to solve them? They seem good at dealing with the things that come up to derail a plan, but are they good at anticipating them? None of the student plans I got showed addressed potential problems. You're right that they're more like goals/checkpoints rather than an actual plan. Maybe our weekly exercise needs to guide them to greater detail. You could also partner better planners with the less successful and have them compare plans to point out similarities/differences.

Michelle

10/18/2013 09:52:14

Planning was the big eye opener for the students. They did not connect time with the task/activity. They also realized that the plan is a tool to look at each day. Since we had 2 weeks to finish a research paper, they made a longer plan and then the shorter one for the learning log. This was 45-60 minutes to understand the concept of planning and then create one as a tool.

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