Jenny Mitchell and Jason Dolezal has joined our PLC. Today, Jenny proposed that perhaps what we can work on is study skills this semester since Willie has talked about different strategies to keep them engaged and Lisa has been talking about note-taking.
I talked about how I am teaching my students about annotating last week. There was an annotating guideline given to me during last week's content meeting and I used it later that week. That experience was wonderful. Here's how it works:
1. Students read a text.
2. Students read and then take notes on the text.
3. Students pair and discuss.
It was engaging and it was full of learning to the max with content and language.
I also shared another website that I yet to try but found very useful in the future. It's called:
http://socrative.com/
More information to come about this website.
Here is what we plan to focus. Each of us is going to take part in one of the following:
1. Study Skills - Mitchell
2. Listening - Notes - Quirke
3. Test Taking - KLee
4. Test Anxiety - West
5. Time Management - Nation
6. Annotate - Dolezal
Expectations:
We will each bring back something to share next time.
Its good to see that Mr. Dolezal, and Ms. Mitchell have joined your PLC. Mr. Nation talk to me about wanting to look at his student study skills. It will be interesting to hear the feedback for the 6 different areas
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