They really pushed the “Community of Learners” thing in the TQ sessions on Friday and Saturday. Josephine did a very nice presentation on Facebook. It seems to have some potential. I signed up for an account.
Elizabeth and Josephine both gave a nice summary of what the new TQ should look like. They repeated what we heard on Thursday with some exchange with the audience. I had a hard time hearing on Thursday due to the microphone etc. so I was glad they repeated the information.
I tried out the lesson study (in a modified form) last spring and did not have much luck with it.
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David: Thank you for establishing this blog. This is my FIRST blog so I am make some mistakes.
I have not tried a lesson study with the TQ because we get one teacher per building most of the time. I would like to know how others in this situation work it.
Molly, I tried to do the lesson study via the internet. We used google documents to allow the groups of teachers to coedit the lesson they were producing. The idea was for them to then try it and discuss what happened via webct Didn’t really work very well. They produced the lesson but didn’t really get into any major discussion. I think I needed a tool that combined the ability to coedit a document and also have the discussion go along with it in the same place. Maybe there is such a thing. Maybe we were just too inexperienced.
David and gang: Our teachers for 2007-2008 are meeting tomorrow (Saturday) so I think I will have them brainstorm how we might be able to do a lesson study. They have an answer!! We have three from the Applied Learning Academy so, at least, they can try it live time.
Thanks, Molly
I would certainly like to see what they have to say. We were trying a virtual version of the lesson study. I have the same problem you have since we are in a rural area. Sometimes one teacher is the entire science department.
A story in the TAMU student newspaper that you folks might be interested in.
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Texas A&M professors join online social community to connect with students
http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2007/10/30/News/Facebook.Friends-3064493.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition