Science Debrief 3.10.22 by Emily Johnson

sciencecarmody — 2022-02-10 16:35:53 UTC

-Set up expectations in the hallway.
-Environment was set up to be organized and successful straight from the beginning.
-Your relationships with students are very clear and they obviously trust you
-The sentence stem in the warmup made it accessible to all students.
-Highly structured environment
-Student leader during every class period is a strong instructional strategy
-Maximized available instructional time through having high structured environment
-Spivey moved throughout the lesson and the kids definitely tracked her. The leader also had to call on Spivey when she had her hand raised.
-Mr. Soto is an amazing TC and the co-teaching was very seamless.
-The students connected the content to their real world experiences

sciencecarmody — 2022-02-10 16:40:15 UTC

-Empowerment to ownership in the context letter
-Stops at each point to summarize student thinking and models how to share that thinking
-The students know expectations and they know what to do and how to act at all moments: maximizes student learning and instructional time as well as safety.
-The lesson was designed very congruently with the learning target: students know exactly what the goal of the period is
-Spivey connected all the new topics to past lessons: Funds of Knowledge and previous learning
-The lesson was relevant & engaging

sciencecarmody — 2022-02-10 16:42:06 UTC

Iisa: Start of class is slow and will try to set stronger expectations in the hallway and having the start of class being more together.
Price: Raising the bar for writing: Sentence stems, restating the question and modeling
Jowsey: Want to transform empowerment and ownership for 8th grade and have buy in (very different from 6th grade)
Webb: remembering the power of quiet and private redirection. Helps with integrity and humiliation
Burdick: Wants to extend his student leadership throughout the lesson as he has it in the beginning and end of the lesson currently
McKenzie: deescalation strategies similar to Spivey and how to build up to those

sciencecarmody — 2022-02-10 16:52:20 UTC

1. How much of a difference do you notice setting up expectations in the hall before entering class?
2. How do you train the student leaders? How do you work up to that? How does August look?
3. How do you get the quiet voice included in the discussion? 4-5 kids lead the conversation in that class period.
4. How do you keep the simplicity and the pacing slow like that?
5. Do you notice different engagement when the content isn't as relatable to their real lives?
6. We noticed in the student groups, one kid sometimes dominant the whiteboard and wrote what they wanted without taking other opinions into account. Is there a Review360 you could do about shared leadership? Or taking opinions into account even when you are a leader?
7. How did you become such a strong, amazing teacher? <3