A crazy couple of weeks with little time for blogging but I’d wanted to share one of the highlights of the workshop we did on Check for Understanding two weeks ago- getting some time–in the lunch lime–to chat with Williamsburg Collegiate’s Ryan Miller about a series of blogs I’d recently done (here, here and especially here)…
My colleague Joaquin Hernandez sent me a note yesterday afternoon. He’d read the two blog posts I did on keeping discussions on topic–I called that getting discussion a bit more “inside the box”–and he wanted me to see something. As a coincidence he’d just cut a montage of Uncommon’s Ryan Miller for discussion at one of…
In the first part of this post I wrote about my recent visit to a school where students who participated in a productive and focused discussion in one classroom participated in another room in something that wasn’t a discussion at all but a series of atomized students comments loosely connected to a stimulus- a Jackson Pollack…
I spent some time observing classes in a school near me recently and one of the things that struck me was the difference in the level of “discipline” in the discussions I saw happening. In some classes students made germane and insightful contributions that advanced the class’ shared understanding of the topic. In others, comments were…