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Hi Libby!

Thank you so much for sharing! I really enjoyed and identified with your presentation.

Here are the suggestions I wrote down as I heard them (from both of our presentations):
-class discussion
-use doodling in class to your advantage
-Tori: roleplaying (Besties became Luther and the pope. Students remembered who played the roles more than the roles themselves but could answer questions about what they saw.)
-think pair share
-group work
-intense scavenger hunt (walk around, find the person)
-Are they listening in lecture and applying?
-set smaller goals
-freewrite, hyper focus on each step
-encourage small tasks using bold words ("Fantastic!")
-Ask a shy kid specific questions, cheer when they get it right.
-math talks at the beginning of each period (no right/wrong, think pair share)

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You should use the Ipads to work on activities. Also, make the activities long, so that students don’t have time to be doing other things on Ipads or get distracted.

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It seems unfortunate that the students were not able to show what they can or can't do or the lower expectation the master teacher had with the students. I loved how you try to incorporate their culture using the diagram. Great job!

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I think this sounds like it would have been a great opportunity for students to engage and be able to connect the content to their lives. Can you talk to your MT about allowing personal info from students if they are willing to give it?

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Thanks for sharing Libby. I appreciate that you are bringing in your own activities to the classroom! That's great. I wonder if you can find modes to do digital activities on the iPad so that maybe they can engage in the content that way. 

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Thanks for sharing Libby. I appreciate that you are bringing in your own activities to the classroom! That's great. I wonder if you can find modes to do digital activities on the iPad so that maybe they can engage in the content that way. 

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Jesus Esparza

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I think maybe if you have the students work in groups and maybe only have the students using one iPad in the group that might encourage more engagement.
-Sarah Gray

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Create a way for the students to participate in class activities using the iPads. To keep them accountable, make it so they either have to submit something via the iPad or their collaborations must have their names, both, or something else.
I know the class is cramped and walking around may be difficult. Consider a think-pair-share and perhaps exits tickets. Both or either of which can be done on the iPad.

Kimberly B.

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I am noticing a pattern of veteran teaches lowering their expectations and standards based on real life experience. I am worried about this for when I become a teacher. Do you think white teachers have a tendency to stereotype kids into not being able to do the work and giving up? This seems to be what I'm observing in real life practice...I want to promote literacy (reading and writing in history) and I am afraid I too will end up lowering my expectations. I didn't help alot with your Venn Diagramm issue.  I find that teachers sometimes just let students copy the work instead of thinking for themselves just so they get the assignment done and on to the next thing.   It's easier than struggling against them.  Jennifer Jacobs

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Maybe fill out the Venn diagram with them? You can put down some comparisons, but then ask for students to volunteer using textual evidence? You can even have them put away their iPads so they are just looking at you and working with the graphic organizer. This way they are engaged and also thinking more critically. Also, you will be able to learn a little more about them. Thanks!
-April

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I really like your assignment and the idea you had would allow them to connect what their learning to their own community! I'm sorry your MT decided it was best for them to copy yours. Maybe allowing them to share with a partner wether they agree with the diagram or not. Allow them a few minutes to add some points to the diagram after they have shared! That way when  they turn them in you can still learn something about the students.

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I think that having them work in groups and have to turn something in right away might motivate them to try and get some work done in class. Even if it's just a few notes and not the whole assignment, maybe the pressure that something needs to be done and turned in right away might help. -Nancy

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I think that having them work in groups and have to turn something in right away might motivate them to try and get some work done in class. Even if it's just a few notes and not the whole assignment, maybe the pressure that something needs to be done and turned in right away might help. -Nancy

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Creating a Vienn diagram as a whole class. Maybe first have them think and put their ideas on their own paper, and you can circulate and take pictures of "acceptable" responses for your MT.- Tim

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Great and super clear presentation, Libby!

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Great and super clear presentation, Libby!

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That's a tough challenge. In my classroom, students have access to Chromebooks. The normal strategy for my MT and I for making sure students are on task on their Chromebook is "proximity": we just make sure to walk by or stand by students who we think are distracted, and being nearby is a nonverbal sign to the students that they need to get back on task.

The tricky thing is, my classroom is huge--space wise--so we have a lot of room to walk around. Those rows in your class are really tight. Maybe if they work on activities like this in groups (so they have to move their desks together), there'll be walking room for you to walk around and see what they're doing on their iPads?

-Kevin Hoang

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I have this same issue, and recently paired students, engagement has increased drastically.
Ryan

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since the teacher doesn't want any personnel information from the students, you can get them to have a 5 min conversation with their peers and then volunteer to share out loud. That way the students can feel heard but your teacher can still stay away from having documented personnel information.
-Tori J

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Hi Libby,
Sorry that your master teacher is keeping you from engaging in your culturally sustaining practices. I think that it would be gone a lot better, as you mentioned, if you got a chance to engage the students after the readings so that they did the group work together and then as a whole class rather than just copying. I think that your assignment would have been amazing if you got the chance to do it your way. Even if it was on the ipad, the discussion and venn diagram would have been a great assignment to reinforce what they learned.
Sara

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set clear expectations as soon as possible so that they know that there is a time for using the iPad and there is a time to pay attention (put them away) and work on other things. If you are not constantly reinforcing this, students will not be willing to work.  

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set clear expectations as soon as possible so that they know that there is a time for using the iPad and there is a time to pay attention (put them away) and work on other things. If you are not constantly reinforcing this, students will not be willing to work.  

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Brenda H

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In the digital age, use digital resources in developing activities for students. I am a huge fan of Venn diagrams and graphic organizers; perhaps find online platforms to allow students to complete it. I guess when given lemons, make lemonade? Good luck!