Gioacchini+Group+Discussion+Progress+11-7-13

=Gioacchini Group Discussion Progress 11-7-13=

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 * **Title**: ||< Gioacchini Group Discussion ||
 * **Subject**: ||< Reading & Writing ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 3rd ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< All year ||
 * **Summary:** ||< The children will learn to manage their own conversation surrounding their reading and writing. They will thread their conversations together with the other children in the class. They will be able to connect their thoughts with their classmates and be able to agree and/or disagree with each other and be able to back up their opinion with text evidence. The children will also be able to manage their 'air time'. Students will be able to notice when fellow classmates are not participating and will invite them into the conversation without prompting from the teacher. ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< We have been discussing how to have a conversation and respect each other. We have also been learning how to not speak over each other and be able to listen. This has been a struggle so, now I will speak with my students who always have something to say and ask them to help me get the more reluctant students involved in the conversation. I also need to get permission for all of my students to be videoed and that way I can have my 'proof' of my students progress with their group discussion. ||
 * Objectives: ||< ** 3.29A, 3.30 & 3.31 ||
 * Assessment: ||< The student will be assessed by how well they manage their own conversation when a teacher is not facilitating the conversation. ||
 * Resources: ||< * Narratives
 * Video camera ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || I am still concerned about the children who are not participating. We have worked in whole group discussing stories and narratives which everyone gets to hear the conversation. We have also worked in pairs reproducing a story and I could see some progress in the children who do not participate in whole group. I have done some fishbowling so that the children who understand the process can share their thinking with the class. John O' came so I got to watch him in action. I went to another teacher on campus and observed her students discussing a reproduction and got a tip about having the more verbal students tap their leg 10 times before they speak. I also networked with a fellow EA teacher and got another tip which I will implement starting tomorrow. Her tip was to have a conversation with the more verbal students and ask them to help me out with the problem of engaging the more reluctant students in the conversation in a gente manner. ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * I will post a video / audio of my students conversations soon. ||