Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Student Control Shifts - part 2!




One of my favorite shifts thus far is allowing the students to do more of the talking than I'm doing.  I have to admit - this was TOUGH for me and it requires a risk from them as well.   We've been talking about our thinking, talking about our understandings as well as misunderstandings and moving along at a steady pace.  Students are engaged in the text and I'm basing a lot of what we do around their interests (this is something I've always done).


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